HANOI (Reuters) - Thousands of mourners packed the streets of Ho Chi Minh City on Wednesday to pay tribute at the funeral of anti-war musician Trinh Cong Son, Vietnam's most beloved singer songwriter.
Trinh Cong Son, Vietnam-era Antiwar Singer, Dies at 62
By SETH MYDANS
BANGKOK, April 4 ù Trinh Cong Son, an antiwar singer and songwriter whose melancholy music stirred Vietnamese on both sides of the war, died on Sunday and was buried today at a Buddhist temple near Ho Chi Minh City. He was 62.
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Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2001 11:00:55 -0400
From: "m.ace" <mace@ookworld.com>
Subject: (exotica) [obit] Ed "Big Daddy" Roth
Omigod! I just learned that Big Daddy Roth died yesterday. Apparently a heart attack. I'm sure Lou will have more to post.
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Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2001 11:55:29 -0400
From: Brian Phillips <hagar@mindspring.net>
Subject: Re: (exotica) British TV serials from the 60s
GARY, Ind. (AP) -- Lester ``Big Daddy'' Kinsey, a blues singer-guitarist known for his croaky voice, died Tuesday of prostate cancer. He was 74.
Kinsey and his sons Kenneth, Donald and Ralph became known as ``Big Daddy'' Kinsey and His Fabulous Sons.
The sons now form the Kinsey Report and record for Alligator Records, a Chicago blues label. The Kinsey Report has toured with musical groups including the Allman Brothers Band.
In the early 1990s, the elder Kinsey released the album ``I Am the Blues.'' Among the blues standouts backing him up were Buddy Guy, James Cotton, Sugar Blue and Pinetop Perkins.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Ed Winter, an actor who played paranoid CIA officer Col. Flagg on the television series ``MASH,'' died March 8 of complications from Parkinson's disease. He was 63.
Winter's career spanned more than 30 years, and included appearances in hundreds of television shows and dozens of films.
He made his Broadway debut in 1966, playing Ernest in the musical ``Cabaret.'' He was nominated for a Tony Award for the role.
He also appeared in such movies as ``A Change of Seasons,'' ``The Buddy System'' and ``Porky's II.''
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John Lucas, who overcame physical disabilities inflicted by rheumatoid arthritis to become an active member of Southern California's jazz community for decades, has died. He was 84.
Lucas died of complications from pneumonia March 17 at Arcadia Methodist Hospital, two days after his birthday.
Stricken with rheumatoid arthritis as a boy, Lucas was unable to bend his arms or legs, unable to get his hands within a foot of his face, unable to wiggle his fingers, unable to walk.
Refusing to view himself as disabled, Lucas became an accomplished professional musician, artist, writer and jazz historian.
Playing a trumpet that was stretched out so that his hands could reach the valves, Lucas started his own band called the Blueblowers and became a popular performer during the 1950s and 1960s at Los Angeles-area nightclubs such as the Beverly Cavern, St. Francis Room, Radar Room and the Track in Pasadena.
John C.V. Lucas was born March 15, 1917, in Minneapolis. His family moved to Southern California in 1920 and settled in Pasadena in the 1930s. After graduating from what was then Pasadena Junior College, Lucas enrolled at Stanford. But when many of his friends went into the service in World War II, Lucas quit to work in the military defense industry in Pasadena.
He also worked as a reporter for the East Pasadena Herald and began a lifelong hobby of drawing pen and ink sketches that he made into Christmas cards.
While a student in Pasadena, Lucas formed the Blueblowers, playing for student dances, usually in the school's open-air gymnasium. The Blueblowers continued to perform until Lucas was 75.
Lucas started out playing the drums, a notable feat considering he could not bend his elbows. Then he switched to the marimba, and by his 20s he had developed his stretched-out trumpet and began to sit in with many noted musicians.
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