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George Harrison, Aaliyah, Joey Ramone among 2001's music industry deaths

by Jane Cohen and Bob Grossweiner

DEC. 28, 6:28 P.M. ET
Death claimed many music industry voices in 2001. Among the artists who passed away were George Harrison, Chet Atkins, Joey Ramone, Perry Como, Joe Henderson, Aaliyah, John Lewis, John Fahey, John Lee Hooker and Papa John Phillips.

The World Trade Center terrorist attacks took the lives of bassist Jeff Hardy and jazz singer Betty Farmer.

A month-by-month list of the year's death follows.


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January

Les Brown, 88 (swing bandleader, Band of Renown)

Milan Hlavsa, 49 (bassist-singer for Czech rock group Plastic People of the Universe)

Bryan Gregory, 46 (guitarist, the Cramps)

Willie Neal "The Country Boy" Johnson, 65 (gospel singer)

Jerry Wick, 33 (frontman-guitarist of Gaunt)

Stann Freeman, 80 (pianist-composer)

Luis Floriano Bonfa, 78 (master guitarist-composer; pioneer of bossa nova)

Kyra Vayne, 84 (opera singer)

James Carr, 58 (soul singer, "The Dark End of the Street")

Ben Cutler, 96 (soprano saxophonist-orchestra leader)

Michael Cuccione, 16 (performed with boy-band-spoof-turned-actual-boy-band 2Gether)

Jimmy Zambo, 42 (Hungarian pop star)

Norris Turney, 79 (jazz saxophonist-clarinetist-flutist, Duke Ellington orchestra)

"Brother" Jack McDuff, 64 (jazz/soul organist)

Eddie Lejeune, 49 (Cajun accordionist)

James Willard Mitchell, 69 (baritone saxophonist, Memphis Horns session player)

Frank Parker, 81 (R&B drummer, Preservation Hall Band)

Dick Whittinghill, 87 (singer, Pied Pipers)

Lou Levy, 72 (jazz pianist, worked with Peggy Lee, Frank Sinatra, Benny Goodman)


February

Moses Taiwa Molelekwa, 27 (South African jazz pianist-composer-producer)

John Fahey, 61 (acoustic guitarist, country, rock, bluegrass instrumentalist, owner of Takoma and Revenant Records)

Sonny Morris, 72 (British jazz trumpeter)

Ray Scragg, 54 (British rhythm guitarist, the Dennisons)

Joe Ferguson III, 86 (guitarist, the Texas Playboys & Light Crust Doughboys)

Theophilus Beckford, 65 (originator of ska; pianist-vocalist)

Yannis Xenakis, 78 (French computer-music pioneer)

Jesse Arreola, 31 (drummer, Los Palominos)

Louis "J.J." Johnson, 77 (jazz trombonist-arranger-composer)

Hal Blair, 85 (songwriter, co-wrote songs performed by singers including Elvis Presley and Della Reese)

Dale Evans, 88 (singer-actress, partner of Roy Rogers)

George T. Simon, 88 (drummer, Glenn Miller Band)

Buddy Tate, 87 (tenor saxophonist, Count Basie Band)

Fadhiki Williams Mdawida, late 60s (Kenyan singer-songwriter)

John Jarrard, 47 (Nashville songwriter)

David Heneker, 94 (Broadway lyricist)

Bernard Asbell, 77 (folk singer)

Charles Trenet, 87 (French singer-composer)

Revolution Magazine, 1 (music publication)

Reid Russell Diamond, 42 (founding member of Canadian instrumental trio Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet)

Ronnie Hilton, 75 ('50's British crooner)


March

Frankie Carle, 97 (big band leader-pianist)

Portia Nelson, 80 (cabaret singer-songwriter)

Robert Ealey, 77 (blues guitarist)

Ted McMichael, 92 (founder of popular '40s quartet the Merry Macs)

Michael "Smitty" Smith, 58 (drummer, Paul Revere and the Raiders)

Glenn Hughes, 50 (singer, Village People's "leather man")

John Phillips, 65 (founder-singer-guitarist, the Mamas & the Papas)

Elena Del Rubio, 70s (singer, the Del Rubio Triplets, a campy vocal group)

Benny Martin, 72 (country/bluegrass fiddler, Bill Monroe's Bluegrass Boys, Roy Acuff's Smokey Mountain Boys)

Herbie Jones, 74 (jazz musician, worked with Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn)

Moe Koffman, 72 (jazz flutist-saxophonist)

John Lewis, 80 (pianist-composer-leader, the Modern Jazz Quartet)

Randall Hylton, 55 (bluegrass songwriter)

Lonnie "Mr. Harmonica" Glosson, 92 (country harmonica player)


April

Lester "Big Daddy" Kinsey, 74 (blues slide guitarist/harmonica player)

Daniel J. Gaither, 62 (gospel singer, Bill Gaither Trio)

Pedro Depestre Gonzalez, 55 (violinst, Buena Vista Social Club)

Van Stephenson, 45 (singer-songwriter Blackhawk)

Charles Pettigrew, 37 (part of soul duo Charles and Eddie)

Sandy Bull, 60 (multi-instrumentalist--oudist, sarod player)

Joey Ramone (Jeffrey Hyman), 49 (singer, the Ramones)

Al Hibbler, 85 (jazz vocalist "Unchained Melody")

Billy Mitchell, 74 (bebop tenor saxophonist)

Jeanette Kimball, 94 (New Orleans jazz pianist)

John Stoneman, 77 (singer, Stoneman Family Band)

Isaac Cole, 73 (jazz pianist-composer, brother of Nat King Cole)

Rupert Nurse, 90 (first musician to write big band arrangements for calypso)

Davey Steel, 52 (lead singer/songwriter, Scottish group Battlefield Band)

Milton "Bat" Batiste, 66 (trumpeter)

Charlie Applewhite, 68 (baritone crooner)


May

Bob Douglas, 101 (fiddle player)

Brian Pendleton, 57 (guitarist, '60s British rock group the Pretty Things)

Billy Higgins, 64 (jazz drummer, best known for work with Ornette Coleman)

Wilson Anthony Boozoo Chavis, 70 (Zydeco pioneer)

Perry Como, 88 (crooner)

James Myers, 81 (co-writer of "Rock Around the Clock")

Susannah McCorkle, 55 (jazz/cabaret singer)

Renato Carosone, 81 (Italian singer who revolutionized traditional Neapolitan song "Torero")

Marlon Bryant (aka Marlon Brando), 22 (rapper, Sporty Thievz)

Stan Montiero, 73, (jazz saxophonist-clarinetist)

Joe Graydon, 82 (big band singer)

Top Jimmy (James Paul Koncek), 46 (influential bluesman in the '80s L.A. club scene)

Prince Ital Joe (Joe Paquette), 38 (reggae singer)

Willie Foster, 79 (blues harmonica player)

Lorez Alexandria, 71 (jazz singer)

Tommy Eyre, 51 (keyboardist, Joe Cocker's Grease Band)

Jerry Merritt, 67 (guitarist-songwriter, Gene Vincent and His Blue Caps)

Tony Ashton, 55 (keyboardist, Ashton Gardner & Dyke, Family, Paice Ashton Lord)

Michael Edward Hazelwood, 59 (pop songwriter)


June

Steele Beauttah, 53 (Nairobi musician)

John Hartford, 63 (country/bluegrass singer-songwriter-instrumentalist)

Marvin "Smokey" Montgomery, 88 (longtime banjo picker for Western swing band the Light Crust Doughboys)

Steve Ettleson, 56 (drummer for Mel Torme, Pearl Bailey, Ella Fitzgerald, Juliet Prowse)

Amalia Mendoza, 78 (one of Mexico's most famous singers of mariachi and ranchera music)

Vince Charles, 55 (steel drummer, performed with both Neil Diamond and Herb Alpert)

Marcelo Fromer, 39 (lead guitarist for pioneering Brazilian rock group Titas)

Makanda K. McIntyre, 69 (jazz saxophonist-flutist)

Arturo Chico O'Farrill, 79 (Afro-Cuban jazz pioneer)

Rene Villanueva, 67 (co-founder of Los Folkloristas, a pioneering Mexican folk group)

Chet Atkins, 77 (legendary country guitarist-producer-executive)

Joe Henderson, 64 (jazz tenor saxophonist)

Joe Darion, 90 (lyricist, "Man of La Mancha")

John Lee Hooker, 83 (blues guitarist-singer-songwriter)

Bobby Johnson, Jr. 85 (big band jazz trumpeter-vocalist-bandleader, worked with Ella Fitzgerald)


July

Johnny Russell, 61 (country singer-songwriter, wrote "Act Naturally")

Roy Nichols, 68 (guitarist, Merle Haggard & the Strangers)

Ernie K. Doe, 65 (country/New Orleans R&B singer, best known for "Mother-in-Law")

Fred Neil, 64 (singer-songwriter, "Everybody's Talkin'")

Herman Brood, 54 (Dutch singe-/keyboardist, Herman Brood and Wild Romance, Cuby & the Blazers)

Anthony "(Too) Poetic" Berkeley, 35 (Gravediggaz rapper)

James Bernard, 75 (British composer of film scores)

Mimi Farina, 56 (folk singer, founder of Bread & Roses)

Bob Ferguson, 73 (country music producer-songwriter, wrote "Wings of a Dove")

Leon Wilkeson, 49 (bassist, Lynyrd Skynyrd)

Milt Gabler, 90 (record producer, founder of Commodore Records)

Harold Land, 73 (bebop tenor saxophonist, Harold Land-Billy Higgins Quintet, Clifford Brown, Max Roach)

Judy Clay, 63 (gospel singer, Drinkard Singers, duets with Billy Vera)

William Lewis "Billy" Boyd, 81 (electric guitarist, Ernest Tubb's Texas Troubadours, introduced electric guitar to country music)


August

Ron Townson, 68 (vocalist, the Fifth Dimension)

Frank Emilio, 80 (pianist, Cuban maestro of Latin jazz)

Flip Phillips, 86 (tenor saxophonist, Woody Herman's first Herd, Benny Goodman)

Betty Everett, 61 (singer "The Shoop Shoop Song")

Sam "Flash" McFadin, 49 (vocalist-guitarist, Colorado group Flash Cadillac)

Billy Byrd, 81 (lead guitarist, Ernest Tubb)

Larry Adler, 87 (harmonica player)

Chris Williams, 31 (vocalist, Backbone69)

Aaliyah (Dana Houghton), 22 (R&B singer)

Neil Cooper, 71 (founder of ROIR Records)

Steve Runkle, 49 (Nashville singer-songwriter-bassist, David Olney & the X-Rays)

Bobby Martin, 61 (R&B pianist-arranger-producer)

John Nelson, 85 (jazz pianist, Prince Rogers Trio; father of Prince)


September

Isaac Stern, 81 (master violinst)

Wayne Rodriquez, 34 (X-Tatic, Horizon)

Betty Farmer, 62 (jazz singer)

Beulah "Lady B" Bobb, 44 (United Singers, calypso quartet)

Jay Migliori, 72 (jazz saxophonist, Supersax)

Jeff Hardy, 46 (bassist for folk singer brother Jack Hardy)

Carl Crack, 30 (co-founder, MC Atari Teenage Riot)

Brian Knight, 61 (British guitarist)


October

Manny Albam, 79 (jazz composer, Count Basie, Woody Herman)

Jimmie Logsdon, 79 (rockabilly singer-songwriter)

Etta Jones, 72 (jazz singer)

John Collins, 83 (jazz guitarist)

Jay Livingston, 86 (songwriter, "Que Sera Sera," "Silver Bells")

Joe Lubin, 84 (co-writer, "Tutti Frutti")

Kim Gardner, 53 (bassist, Ashton Gardner & Dyke)

Kal Mann, 84 (lyricist, co-founder of Cameo/Parkway Records)

Henry Berthold "Spike" Robinson, 72 (tenor saxophonist)

Rusty Kershaw, 63, (musician-songwriter, half of Rusty & Doug)

Smoky Dacus, 89 (godfather of western swing drummers)


November

Paul M. Pearson II, 76 (jazz promoter)

Gene Wooten, 49 (Dobro bluegrass master, Patti Loveless, Osborne Brothers)

Pappy Sherill, 86 (bluegrass fiddler)

Kal Mann, 84 (songwriter, "Let's Twist Again")

Carroll DesChamps "Champ" Hood, 49 (Austin singer-songwriter, Threadgill Troubadours, Champ Hood & the Troubadours)

Spike Robinson, 71 (jazz saxophonist)

David "Panama" Francis, 82 (drummer for Cab Calloway)

Tommy Flanagan, 71 (bebop pianist, Ella Fitzgerald, Tony Bennett)

Babik Reinhardt, 57 (jazz guitarist, son of Django Reinhardt)

Jerry Jerome, 89 (tenor saxophonist with Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller, Red Norvo and Artie Shaw)

Michael Karoli, 53 (singer-guitarist-violinist, legendary German experimental rockers, Can)

Norman Granz, 83 (producer-promoter-manager, founder of Clef, Norgran and Verve record labels)

Juan Hinojosa, 51 (founding member-drummer of the legendary Tejano band Los Fabulosos Cuatro)

Melanie Thornton, 34 (singer)

O.C. Smith, 65 (jazz, country, R&B vocalist)

Ralph Burns, 79 (jazz arranger, big-band composer)

George Harrison, 58 (guitarist-singer-songwriter, the Beatles)

Scott Murray, 22 (drummer, Australian pop/punk band 28 Days)


December

Grady Martin, 74 (Nashville session guitarist, Willie Nelson band member)

Pappy Sherrill, 86 (bluegrass fiddler)

Stuart Adamson, 43 (lead singer of Big Country)

Rufus Thomas, 84 (Memphis singer-songwriter, "Walking the Dog" and "Do the Funky Chicken")

Conte Candoli, 74 (jazz trumpeter, "The Tonight Show")

Bianca Halstead aka Bianca Butthole, 36 (lead singer of rock group Betty Blowtorch)

Gilbert Becaud, 74 (French pop singer-songwriter, "Et Maintenant," aka "What Now My Love")

Jose Fajardo, 82 (influential Cuban jazz flutist and bandleader)

Clifford T. Ward, 57 (English singer-songwriter)

Rory A. Bennett, 36 (R&B songwriter-producer)

Anthony Chavis, 45 (Zydeco musician, son of Boozoo Chavis)

Edward Downes, 90 (musicologist, critic, host of "Texaco Opera Quiz")


Originally published: 28-Dec-2001

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Wow, that's depressing.


Looks like Kal Mann died twice though, once in October and once in November.

If he hadn't sold Cameo-Parkway to you-know-who, he might have been better known. I bet he didn't realize that all the records he wrote and worked on would be sucked into the void of history by the sale.

 

Good eyes, Angel!

I was thinking of Mann and Cameo/Parkway just this week, when I was enjoying the old JPN Overseas Chubby Checker hits cd. Mann co-wrote Let's Twist Again, Slow Twistin', Popeye The Hitchhiker, and a bunch of others on that disc. Great, great stuff.

 

Noooooo!!!!!!! RIP leather man.

 

I'm glad they clarified that this was "leather man" and not the Glenn Hughes of Trapeze/Deep Purple/Black Sabbath fame.