People Who Died

Thanks to Sheila Lennon over at projo.com for bringing this to everyone's attention. (You can check out her blog at:

http://www.beloblog.com/ProJo_Blogs/shenews/archives/2005/12/post_3.html.)

Steve Morse, at the Boston Globe, put this list together of people who died in 2005 who probably are of interest to those of us following the music world:

Luther Vandross, Shirley Horn, Chris Whitley, Paul Pena, R.L. Burnside, Clarence Gatemouth Brown, Link Wray, Richard Pryor, Hunter Thompson, Danny Sugerman (Doors biographer), Ray Peterson (''Tell Laura I Love Her"), Jim Capaldi (Traffic), Spencer Dryden (Jefferson Airplane), Henry Spencer, Merle Kilgore, Ras Junior, Keith Knudsen (Doobie Brothers), Jimmy Smith, Big Joe Burrell, Sandra Dee, John Raitt, Chris Ledoux, Bobby Short, Rod Price (of Foghat), Johnnie Johnson (Chuck Berry's pianist), Mindy Jostyn, Jimmy Martin, Scott Larned (of Dark Star Orchestra), Obie Benson (Four Tops), Big Al Downing, Long John Baldry, John Herald (of the Greenbriar Boys), Eugene Record (founder of the Chi-Lites), Little Milton, Detroit Junior, Vassar Clements, Bea Lilly, and Fritz Richmond.

For those of us who are Fall Riverites or, as in my case, former Fall Riverites, our condolences to Mayor Edward Lambert and his family on the loss of his wife Mary on Christmas Day.