Musicians' Graves

Yes. What I am trying to do is maintain readers and interest in the thread by irregularly rotating genres and subgenres, races, gender, country of death, the popularity and importance of the artists, even the size of headstones and monuments. This is a rock-oriented forum with the majority of members being American, so the thread would likely lose readers if an entire page was devoted to gospel singers or Chilean folk singers. Some of the markers are humble, others ostentatious, some colorful, others bland or boring. One thing I have learned in doing research for this thread that disappoints me is the sheer number of British musicians who have been cremated. That is one reason I started the "Cremains" notes, with part three listing all British musicians except for the "other, Bobby Darin."

Of all the markers and monuments in this thread to date, the only one I have seen in person is Vaughan Williams in Westminster Abbey.

 

I'm not having a go by the way . Just makes me more sad when I see the Nick Drake headstone, cos of the realness of it, reminds of a lot of old and worn gravestones in the Church near my house

 

Oh no, no misunderstanding at all. Fully understandable, and agreeable, too. I just took the opportunity to explain my procedures.

 

Johann Christian Bach, the youngest son of Johann Sebastian Bach, was buried in St. Pancras Old Church Churchyard in St. Pancras, Borough of Camden, Greater London, England. Known as "the London Bach," his exact grave plot is unknown due to a railway line drawn through the cemetery in 1860s.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Christian_Bach




St. Pancras Old Church was location five of the "Mad Day Out" photo shoot for the Beatles on Sunday, 28 July 1968, that resulted in the photo used in the inner foldout of the 1962-66 and 1967-70 compilations. The Beatles are shown at the perimeter railing or fence.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Pancras_Old_Church
http://www.beatlesbible.com/1968/07/28/the-mad-day-out-location-five/

 

Alma Cogan was buried in the Bushey Jewish Cemetery in Bushy, Watford Borough, Hertfordshire, England.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alma_Cogan

 

Wilbert Harrison was buried at North Pinewood Cemetery, Charlotte, North Carolina. Harrison scored a #1 American hit in 1959 with "Kansas City," and later recorded "Let's Work Together." Another military marker.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilbert_Harrison

 

Robert Nighthawk was buried at Magnolia Cemetery, Magnolia, Phillips County, Arkansas.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Nighthawk

 

(relevant non-musician)

Dewey Phillips was buried at Crump Cemetery, Crump, Hardin County, Tennessee. Known as Daddy-o-Dewey, he was the first disc jockey to play an Elvis Presley record, an acetate of "That's All Right," this in Memphis.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dewey_Phillips

 

Great thread!...Years ago on a visit to Mexico City..I made pilgrimage to visit the
Gravesite of Pedro Infante...a famous Mexican singer and actor who died in 1957.

 

Josh White was buried at Cypress Hills Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_White

 

Inventor of the synthesizer that bears his name. Robert Moog is buried at Lou Pollack Memorial Park in Asheville, North Carolina.

 

Ty Longley was buried at Oakwood Cemetery in Sharon, Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Longley, guitarist with Great White, died in the Station nightclub fire in West Warwick, Rhode Island in 2003.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ty_Longley

 

Christine Frka, known as Miss Christine of the GTO's, was buried at Green Hills Memorial Park in Rancho Palos Verdes, California. She appears on the front cover of Hot Rats by Frank Zappa.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_GTOs

 

Chris Ethridge was buried at Magnolia Cemetery, Meridian, Lauderdale County, Mississippi. Besides being a founding member and bassist with the Flying Burrito Brothers, Ethridge did session work with numerous acts, among them Johnny Winter, Randy Newman, Leon Russell, and Linda Ronstadt. He toured with Willie Nelson for upwards of eight years.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Ethridge

 

Jim Reeves, inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1967, was buried at the Jim Reeves Memorial Park in Carthage, Panola County, Texas. The inscription reads: "If I, a lowly singer dry one tear or soothe one humble human heart in pain, then my homely verse to God is dear and not one stanza has been sung in vain."

http://jimreevesfanclub.com/angelmonument.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Reeves

 

Andrés Segovia was buried at Casa Museo de Linares in Sevilla, Andalucía, Spain. In 1981, virtuoso Spanish classical guitarist Segovia was ennobled by King Juan Carlos I, who gave Segovia the hereditary title of Marqués de Salobreña. In 1986 Segovia received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrés_Segovia

 

Billy Lee Riley was buried at the Walnut Grove Cemetery in Newport, Jackson County, Arkansas. In my book, Riley ranks among the rock 'n' roll immortals for "Flying Saucer Rock and Roll."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Lee_Riley

 

Chuck Brown was buried at Trinity Memorial Gardens in Waldorf, Charles County, Maryland.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Brown

 

Clifton Chenier, known as the King of Zydeco, was buried at All Saints Cemetery in Loreauville, Iberia Parish, Louisiana. "Rory Gallagher wrote a song in tribute to Chenier entitled 'The King of Zydeco.' And Paul Simon mentioned Chenier in his song 'That Was Your Mother,' from his 1986 album Graceland."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifton_Chenier

 

I can't help but wonder what folks 200 years in the future will make of inscriptions like "Godfather of Go-Go."

 

Brian Davison was buried in the Parkham Churchyard, Devon, England. Nicknamed Blinky, he drummed with Keith Emerson & the Nice, and with Patrick Moraz & Refugee.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Davison_(drummer)

 

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

 

Danny Flores, aka Chuck Rio, was buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Cypress, Orange County, California. "Tequila!"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Flores

 

Orville H. Gibson was buried at Morningside Cemetery in Malone, Franklin County, New York. Gibson, a luthier, founded the namesake guitar company in Kalamazoo, Michigan in 1896.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orville_Gibson

 

Frank Frost was buried in the Magnolia Cemetery in Magnolia, Phillips County, Arkansas.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Frost