Dino Valenti was buried at the Mount Tamalpais Cemetery in San Rafael, Marin County, California. Christened Chester William Powers, Jr., he used Dino Valenti as a stage name and Jesse Oris Farrow as a songwriting credit. He used at least three variant pseudonyms. Thus all the names on the gravestone. He was a founder member of Quicksilver Messenger Service and is known as the composer of "Get Together," the defining hit by the Youngbloods... that was originally recorded by the Kingston Trio in 1964. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chet_Powers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quicksilver_Messenger_Service http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Get_Together_(The_Youngbloods_song)
Cremains, part seven: Peter Coe - saxophonist with Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames - played on "Got To Get You Into My Life" by the Beatles - ashes unknown Bert Kaempfert - ashes scattered in the Florida Everglades at his request Graeme Kelling - of Deacon Blue Burial: Glasgow Crematorium Glasgow, Scotland Gar Samuelson - drummer with Megadeth - ashes scattered in the Atlantic Ocean. Layne Staley - Alice In Chains - ashes unknown Mike Starr - bassist with Alice In Chains - ashes unknown Other: Dennis Wilson - of the Beach Boys - "With a special dispensation from President Reagan, non-serviceman Wilson was then given the burial at sea that he had always wanted." - Simmonds.
Cindy Walker was buried at the Mexia City Cemetery in Mexia, Limestone County, Texas. The monument reads: "Cindy Walker. Songwriter. July 20, 1918 - March 23, 2006." She was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1997. Over 400 of her songs have been recorded, among them these few: "Lone Star Trail" by Bing Crosby, "Blue Canadian Rockies" by Gene Autry (later covered by The Byrds on Sweetheart of the Rodeo), "You Don't Know Me" by Ray Charles (also covered by Elvis Presley), and "Dream Baby (How Long Must I Dream)" by Roy Orbison. No less an authority than songwriter Harlan Howard, himself inducted the same year into the Country Music Hall of Fame, described Walker as "the greatest living songwriter of country music." In March 2006 Willie Nelson released You Don't Know Me: The Songs of Cindy Walker. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cindy_Walker
Otis Blackwell was interred at the Woodlawn Memorial Park and Mausoleum in Nashville, Tennessee. "Goodness gracious, great balls of fire!" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otis_Blackwell
Harlan Howard was buried at the Nashville City Cemetery in Nashville, Tennessee. Howard was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1997. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlan_Howard
Earl Palmer was buried at the Riverside National Cemetery in Riverside, California. Inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2000, Palmer began his career playing drums in New Orleans before moving to California and becoming a member of the Wrecking Crew. His list of credits is nothing short of phenomenal, among the singles: "The Fat Man" (in my book, arguably the first rock and roll song, from 1949), "Blueberry Hill," and "Blue Monday" by Fats Domino; "I Hear You Knockin'" by Smiley Lewis; "Summertime Blues" by Eddie Cochran; "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'" by the Righteous Brothers; and "River Deep, Mountain High" by Ike & Tina Turner. From Wikipedia: Late in his career, Palmer appeared in a music video with Cracker on the song "I hate my generation." As Addicted to Noise tells the story: 'According to Cracker leader David Lowery, when Palmer was asked if he would be able to play along with the songs, he gave Lowery a look and said, 'I invented this ****.'" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Palmer
Al Hirt was interred at the Metairie Cemetery in New Orleans, Louisiana. Honey In the Horn. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Hirt
Ike Quebec was buried at the Woodlawn Cemetery in Newark, New Jersey. American jazz tenor saxophonist Quebec recorded or performed with Cab Calloway, Roy Eldridge, Ella Fitzgerald, and Jimmy Smith, among others. He not only recorded for Blue Note Records but worked as a talent scout and arranger for the label. Notice the discrepancy between the birth dates on the two markers. 1918 is correct. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ike_Quebec
Patrick McAuley was buried at the Clar St. Agathas RC Churchyard in Donegal, County Donegal, Ireland. McAuley was a drummer / keyboardist with Them... the Other Them... and with Kim Fowley and with the rock band the Belfast Gypsies. He drowned in County Donegal on 25 June 1984. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Them_(band)
Ron Tabak, lead singer with Prism, was buried at the Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Burnaby, Greater Vancouver Regional District, British Columbia, Canada. Talk about an example of when luck turns bad: Tabak was mugged the week before he was sideswiped by a car as he cycled to a friend's home. Taken to a hospital for an examination, doctors found nothing seriously wrong and released him. "He abruptly became abusive, prompting two police officers at the hospital to arrest him on the belief he was drunk. He was later discovered unconscious in his jail cell and was rushed back to the hospital. A second examination discovered a blood clot had developed on the right side of his brain. Tabak died on Christmas Day 1984, before a pending neurosurgical operation could be performed." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prism_(band)#Death_of_Ron_Tabak
John Fahey was buried at Restlawn Memory Gardens in West Salem, Polk County, Oregon. He titled his seventh album The Voice of the Turtle, thus the inscription. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Fahey_(musician) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Fahey_discography http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Voice_of_the_Turtle_(album)
We drove through Spring Hill Cemetery this past Sunday again, and my son pointed out how many great musicians are grouped together in the same area, but are usually photographed individually, so most don't know that until they visit in person.
(back from a genealogical field trip) Cremains, part eight: Chi Cheng - bassist with the Deftones - ashes unknown Mike Gibbins - of Badfinger - ashes scattered at Gower coast of South Wales Richie Havens - ashes scattered at the site of the original Woodstock festival in Bethel, New York Laura Nyro - ashes buried underneath a Japanese maple tree planted by her friends outside her bedroom window at her cottage in Danbury, Connecticut. Ike Turner - ashes unknown Vince Welnick - keyboardist with the Tubes, and the Grateful Dead - ashes unknown Other: Scott Smith - bassist with Loverboy - drowned - body lost at sea
Paul Gray, bassist and founding member of Slipknot, was buried at the Highland Memory Gardens Cemetery in Des Moines, Iowa. Slipknot released 5: The Gray Chapter this week, give or take a few days dependent on the market. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Gray_(American_musician) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slipknot_(band)
Sticks McGhee, younger brother of Brownie McGhee, was buried in the Long Island National Cemetery in Farmingdale, New York. "Drinkin' Wine, Spo-Dee-O-Dee"... just ask Jerry Lee. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stick_McGhee
(relevant non-musician) F.S. Wolcott was buried at the Wintergreen Cemetery in Port Gibson, Claiborne County, Mississippi. For those readers who don't know Wolcott, you might recognize the name in the song title by The Band, "The W.S. Walcott Medicine Show." Wolcott was the proprietor of the Rabbit's Foot Company, a traveling minstrel show that helped launch the careers of, to quote from Wikipedia, "many leading African-American musicians and entertainers, including Arthur 'Happy' Howe, Ma Rainey, Ida Cox, Bessie Smith, Butterbeans and Susie, Tim Moore, Big Joe Williams, Louis Jordan, Brownie McGhee, and Rufus Thomas." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F._S._Wolcott http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rabbit's_Foot_Company
I once spent two days looking for Blind Willies Grave in Beaumont, it is a huge cemetery... I have a theory that you might be able to find the actual grave site if you did it backwards (look at the graves and then pull the death certificates to find out the plot numbers), because there is a plot number on the death certificate, but no cemetary plan (that I ever found) to match it up with. I think there is a marker there, but I don't think it is in the spot where he is buried (since no one know where he is buried). I was told all the cemetery records were lost, but who knows ??
(an intentional duplicate of post #696; resized smaller) Dave Brubeck was buried at Umpawug Cemetery in Redding, Fairfield County, Connecticut. Time Out. Brubeck composed "Blue Rondo à la Turk," a song covered by Keith Emerson & the Nice, including Brian Davison immediately above in this thread (a coincidence). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Brubeck
Mother Maybelle Carter was buried at the Hendersonville Memory Gardens in Hendersonville, Sumner County, Tennessee. As part of the Carter Family, she was inducted in the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1970. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maybelle_Carter
Dave Dudley was buried at the Danbury Cemetery in Danbury, Burnett County, Wisconsin. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Dudley
Major Lance was buried at the Washington Memory Gardens in Homewood, Cook County, Illinois. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_Lance
