Larry Butler
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Beatles Medley
Born on January 20, 2012 in Pensacola, Florida.
Larry Butler was a country music producer/songwriter. From the mid-1970s through the 1980s, he worked with Kenny Rogers. Many of his albums with Rogers went either gold or platinum and accumulated many millions of sales around the world. These albums include Kenny Rogers (1976), The Gambler (1978), Gideon (1980) and I Prefer The Moonlight (1987). Rogers and Butler maintained a friendship outside of show business. Butler also produced Rogers’ 1993 album If Only My Heart Had A Voice. He also participated in Rogers 2006 retrospective DVD The Journey. Butler is the only Nashville producer to win the Grammy Award for Producer of the year.
Butler died in his sleep in Pensacola, Florida on January 20, 2012.
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The Dreamer
Born on January 25, 1938 in Los Angeles, U.S.
Etta James was an American singer whose style spanned a variety of music genres including blues, rhythm and blues, rock and roll, soul, gospel and jazz. Starting her career in the mid-1950s, she gained fame with hits such as “Dance With Me, Henry”, “At Last”, “Tell Mama”, and “I’d Rather Go Blind” for which she claimed she wrote the lyrics. She faced a number of personal problems, including drug addiction, before making a musical resurgence in the late 1980s with the album The Seven Year Itch.
Etta James died on January 20, 2012 (aged 73) in Riverside, California, U.S.
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Born in 1928.
Beverly McDermott was an American casting director whose career spanned more than forty years. Her 250 film and television credits included Lenny, Cocoon, Scarface, Cocoon: The Return, and Airport 77. Working from Florida (rather than California), she became one of the state’s highest profile casting directors. McDermott was the first Floridian casting director to join the Casting Society of America.
McDermott died on January 19, 2012, at the age of 83 in Hollywood, Florida.
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Born on September 3, 198 in Barrie, Ontario.
Sarah Burke as a Canadian freestyle skier who was a pioneer of the superpipe event. She was a four-time Winter X Games gold medalist, and won the world championship in the halfpipe in 2005. She successfully lobbied the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to have the event added to the Olympic program for the 2014 Winter Olympics. She was considered a medal favourite in the event. Burke died following a training accident in Utah.
Sarah Burke died on January 19, 2012 (aged 29) in Salt Lake City, Utah. She got injured while training.
Jenny Tomasin
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Upstairs, Downstairs: The Complete Series – 40th Anniversary Collection
Born on November 30, 1936 in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.
Jenny Tomasin was an English actress best known for her roles in Upstairs, Downstairs and Emmerdale.
Tomasin died on January 19, 2012 at the age of 75.
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Midnight at the Barrelhouse – The Johnny Otis Story Volume 1: 1945-57
Born on December 28, 1921 in Vallejo, California, U.S.
Johnny Otis was an American singer, musician, talent scout, disc jockey, composer, arranger, recording artist, record producer, vibraphonist, drummer, percussionist, bandleader, impresario and pastor. Born in Vallejo, California, he is commonly referred to as the “Godfather of Rhythm and Blues”.
Johnny Otis died on January 17, 2012 in Los Angeles, California. He was 90.
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It’s Just Begun / Phase Two
Born on June 23, 1940 in New York City, New York.
Jimmy Castor was an American pop and funk musician. He is best known as a fun disco/funk saxophonist, with his biggest hit single being 1972’s million seller, “Troglodyte (Cave Man)”.
Castor died on January 16, 2012 (aged 71) in Henderson, Nevada.
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Born on November 30, 1937 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Richard Threlkeld was an American television news correspondent who spent 25 years with CBS News. During his news career, Threlkeld covered the Vietnam War, the Persian Gulf War, and the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. In the United States he covered such stories as the Robert F. Kennedy assassination and the Patty Hearst kidnapping, as well as numerous political campaigns.
Threlkeld was killed in an accident on January 13, 2012, in Amagansett, New York. His 2008 Mini convertible collided with a propane truck. He was 74.
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Episode 1 Big Brother
Richard Hopkins started spearheading the “reality revolution” in British television in 2000, when he produced the Bafta award-winning first series of Big Brother.
Hopkins died on January 7,2012 from cancer at the age of 47.
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Boris Karloff Tales of Mystery Archives Volume 5
Born on December 27, 1918 in Staten Island, New York City.
John Celardo was an American comic strip and comic book artist, best known for illustrating the Tarzan comic strip. He began his art career in the late 1930s drawing animals for the National Youth Administration at the Staten Island Zoo at West Brighton, where he was once photographed in the alligator pit by the Staten Island Advance. Over decades, he did work for a variety of publishers, including American Comics Group, DC Comics, Gold Key, Quality, Standard, St. John and Whitman.
Celardo died on January 6, 2012 (aged 93) in Staten Island, New York City.
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