I came across a couple of interesting and diverse obituaries today. Mary Travers and Henry Gibson were both way past their status as celebrities and so the announcements that I found were totally accidental. At most websites or newspapers, you'd have to go very deep, if they were even there at all. Once, back in the 60's, they were household names. Now, their deaths don't rate much more news than yours and mine might.
Mary Travers of Peter, Paul and Mary. - A wonderful voice, and songs on 45's that we played over and over: Puff the Magic Dragon, Leavin' On a Jet Plane, Blowin' in the Wind and Where Have All the Flowers Gone, just to name the biggies.
Henry Gibson - A funny guy. Those characters from Laugh In, where he got 99% of his fame and glory were the best. Remember The Poet? Or how about the priest he always played in those cocktail party scenes? "My congregation supports all denominations, but our favorites are twenties and fifties." Funny stuff in those days. And he's still good. See him on Boston Legal.
So I just thought I'd put these two out there. Neither person having any huge influence on me, but just big enough in my younger years to make me stop and think how those things are beginning to disappear, and sad that they have passed. Both 73 years old. May they rest in peace.
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I noted the Mary Travers passing - but missed the story on Henry Gibson.
Thanks, Joel.
Two more bits of our youth have left the stage.
And just yesterday Ernie Harwell made a farewell visit to 'the old ball park'.
We are all moving toward the turnstile, as jane fonda observed after the death of her Dad, Henry Fonda.
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