The Dead-Celebs Podcast "The Final Curtain Call"
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06:43 Cissy Houston
The Grammy-winning gospel and soul singer and the mother of music icon Whitney Houston, died on October 7. Houston died while under hospice care for Alzheimer's disease at her home in Newark, NJ. Born Emily Drinkard in 1933, she was a founding member of the family soul group The Drinkard Sisters as well as Sweet Inspirations, the girl group who provided backing vocals to artists Aretha Franklin, Jimi Hendrix, and Elvis Presley. She was 91.
#whitneyhouston #cissyhouston #mother

11:37 Christopher Ciccone
Madonna's younger brother and former creative consultant, died Oct. 4 after battling pancreatic cancer. Much like his sister, Ciccone grew up with a deep love of music and began his professional career as a dancer in 1980 with the Le Group de La Palace Royale in Ottawa. He appeared in the music video for her 1984 hit single "Lucky Star" as one of her backup dancers, and also joined her on stage and in televised performances. He was 63.
#madonna #brother #dance

16:13 Ethel Kennedy, a human rights advocate, widow of the late Democratic icon Robert F. Kennedy, matriarch of America's most famous political family, died on October 10 after complications from a stroke. The documentary, entitled Ethel, covers Kennedy's early political involvement, her life with Robert F. Kennedy, and the years following his death when she raised eleven children on her own.
#kennedyfamily #kennedy #robertfkennedy #robertfkennedyjr

21:30 Liam Payne, the pop singer best known as a member of the massively popular boy band One Direction, died Oct. 16 after falling from the third floor of a hotel in Buenos Aires. Payne had been in Argentina to attend a concert by his former bandmate Niall Horan. Born in 1991, Payne formed One Direction with Horan, Harry Styles, Zayn Malik, and Louis Tomlinson after they all individually auditioned for the British reality competition series The X Factor in 2010. The group recorded five albums in six years before going on indefinite hiatus in 2016. Payne had songwriting credits on many of the group's hits, including "Story of My Life," "Steal My Girl," and "Ready to Run." He was 31.
#onedirection #band #music #harrystyles #boyband

28:00 Sarah Danser
Survivalist and reality TV veteran Sarah Danser, who appeared on Discovery's Naked and Afraid; its spin-off, Naked and Afraid XL; and the CW's competition Fight to Survive, died Oct. 22, two days after being involved in a car crash. She was a passenger in a vehicle being driven by a friend in the Kahala section of Honolulu, when he lost control and hit a parked car, according to Hawaii News Now. She was 34. #tv #tvshow #tvshows

31:15 Ron Ely, the actor known for his portrayal of a more sophisticated version of Tarzan in the 1966-1968 TV series named after the character, died on Oct. 23 of natural causes. He was 86. #tarzan #ely

38:00 Jack Jones, the crooner known for singing TV's The Love Boat theme, died Oct. 23, after battling leukemia for the last two years. The two-time Grammy winner sang in the style of his inspiration, Frank Sinatra, whose daughter Nancy attended Jones' Los Angeles high school. Singing songs such as "Lollipops and Roses" and "Wives and Lovers,", He was 86. #jackjones #loveboat #theme #song

42:40 Phil Lesh, the prolific bassist and founding member of the Grateful Dead, died Oct. 25. The cause of death was not disclosed, but he had previously survived bouts of prostate cancer, bladder cancer and had had a liver transplant in 1998. Lesh was revered as one of the most pioneering and influential bassists in modern rock history. He was 84. #gratefuldead #band #bassplayer

47:56 Teri Garr died on October 29 of multiple sclerosis after struggling with health issues in recent years. Garr racked up more than 150 film and TV credits during her half-century career, along with at least 100 appearances as herself on various talkers, game shows, music shows and documentaries. One of Garr’s earliest credits was as a backing go-go dancer on the legendary T.A.M.I. Show. Tootsie in what could be considered her most famous role, where she scored an Oscar nomination.
Garr continued to work in movies and television, famously recurring as Phoebe’s (Lisa Kurdrow) mother on Friends and also guest-starring on TV’s ER, Frasier, Sabrina the Teenage Witch and others. She was 79.
#actress #tootsie #movie

52:19 Mitzi Gaynor, the effervescent dancer and actor who starred as Nellie Forbush in the 1958 film “South Pacific” and appeared in other musicals with Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra and Gene Kelly, died on October 17 of natural causes. She received a star on the Walk of Fame on Hollywood Boulevard in 1960, and, in 2017, she was inducted into the Great American Songbook Hall of Fame. She was 93.

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