Sepiatone Posted November 24, 2013 Share Posted November 24, 2013 There was a news blurb on my AOL homepage about French director Georges Lautner passing away. When I clicked on it to read, there was a link to a list of celebrities who also passed this year( so far), so I perused through it and discovered MICHAEL ANSARA died back in July. Thing is, I thought he died YEARS ago! Same thing happened a couple or so years ago when I heard singer GENE PITNEY died. How often has this happened to anyone else? Sepiatone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dargo2 Posted November 24, 2013 Share Posted November 24, 2013 Well, I MAY be alone here, but I thought Abe Vigoda had died years ago! (...sorry, couldn't resist) And I have a theory here as to why you might have thought Ansara died years ago, Sepia. And it's 'cause after you've become divorced from the luscious Barbara Eden, what else WOULD there be to live for, HUH?! (...sorry, couldn't resist THAT one EITHER!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lorry_Driver Posted November 24, 2013 Share Posted November 24, 2013 Well, everybody thought that Paul was dead. But it was all a hoax courtesy of one Russ Gibb. Can anyone say, "Cranberry Sauce" or was it "Paul is Dead"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfpcc2 Posted November 24, 2013 Share Posted November 24, 2013 Matthew Ansara, the son Michael Ansara had with Barbara Eden died around ten years ago, (circa) of a drug overdose. Maybe that made it kind of confusing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamradio Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 I heard some time back that when the actor Frank Cady who played Sam Drucker on "Green Acres" passed away, only Sam Lester was the only surviving cast member. Recently I was glad to hear the actress Mary Grace Canfield is still alive at age 87. She played in films like "Pollyana" I was surprised because she looked older in "Green Acres" which I though was around 60. Edited by: hamradio on Nov 24, 2013 8:31 PM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfpcc1 Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 Frank Cady also played Sam Drucker on Petticoat Junction. He was a busy man in the Sixties. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamradio Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 Frank Cady had a long career http://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/big-screen/2012/jun/11/dig-a-hole-frank-cady-hootervilles-sam-drucker/ Even the Beverly Hillbillies knew him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Dabb Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 Frank Cady also played the storekeeper in Sergeant York - made up to look like Walter Brennan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sepiatone Posted November 25, 2013 Author Share Posted November 25, 2013 > Matthew Ansara, the son Michael Ansara had with Barbara Eden died around ten years ago, (circa) of a drug overdose. Maybe that made it kind of confusing? I could see where it would, if not for the fact I thought MICHAEL died long before that. Russ Gibb jumped on the "Paul is dead" idea thanks to an anonymous caller to his radio show. It snowballed from there. Some of the "proof" was in the closing line in "Strawberry Fields", where somebody in slowing down tape says, "Strawberry fields..." and hoaxers claimed it was LENNON actually saying, "I buried Paul". If you listen closely, you can get yourself to hear it be either. I vote for "strawberry fields". Sepiatone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MorrisSteele Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 My memory often plays tricks on me regarding old stars who I think have already died or those who have died who I think are still alive. Hard to keep things straight. "I'm very bored" was another candidate for the spoken words at the end of Strawberry Fields Forever. And Lennon did later write Those freaks were right when they said you were dead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lorry_Driver Posted November 26, 2013 Share Posted November 26, 2013 I've heard most people agree that John says, "Cranberry Sauce." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sepiatone Posted November 26, 2013 Author Share Posted November 26, 2013 Still having a turntable and the vinyl copy of "Magical Mystery Tour", I played it at 45rpm, and it IS "Strawberry fields". Still couldn't make out whose voice it was. Sepiatone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dargo2 Posted November 26, 2013 Share Posted November 26, 2013 >Still having a turntable and the vinyl copy of "Magical Mystery Tour", I played it at 45rpm, and it IS "Strawberry fields". Still couldn't make out whose voice it was. Well Sepia, if you played a 33rpm LP at 45rpm, MY guess is that the voice sounded as if it came from either Simon, Theodore OR Alvin!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamradio Posted November 26, 2013 Share Posted November 26, 2013 Speaking of NOT already dead, so save those LP's and 45's. http://www.crutchfield.com/S-jTiJe26V51M/g_10500/Turntables.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MorrisSteele Posted November 26, 2013 Share Posted November 26, 2013 I have just about all my LP's, except for a few that were stolen, but most of the .45's are long gone, except for a half dozen or so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted November 26, 2013 Share Posted November 26, 2013 It sounds more like Alvin than Simon or Theodore. I once went on an all-Chipmunks specialty cruise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
traceyk65 Posted November 26, 2013 Share Posted November 26, 2013 Totally off topic...or sort of...but speaking of vinyl: I was a teenager in the late 70's and early 80's, the age of "back-masking." Did anyone else play those albums backwards? Like "Stairway to Heaven" and a couple of Beatles' songs? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
traceyk65 Posted November 26, 2013 Share Posted November 26, 2013 And speaking ON topic, I went an looked up some poeple and was very surprised to learn Zsa Zsa was still alive, as well as Sid Caesar, Monty Hall, Yogi Berra, Roger Corman, Chuck Berry, Ftas Domino and Judge Wapner! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkblue Posted November 26, 2013 Share Posted November 26, 2013 So, me and a bud were at a flea market the other day and I see a recent Huey Lewis and the News album for sale and pointed to it. To which buddy replies, "Huey Lewis? Is he still alive?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misswonderly3 Posted November 27, 2013 Share Posted November 27, 2013 I'm just glad the title of this thread is "Not Already Dead?" as opposed to "Not already Passed Away", or even "Not Already Passed" (Passed what? An exam? A kidney stone?) I've noticed the increasing use of these terms - "Passed Away", or worse, "Passed" - over the last few years. What's the matter with the word "died"? Dying is a fact of life, it's part of life. The growing squeamishness over referring directly to death, to saying that someone died, is not only tiresome, it's a kind of denial of one of the most basic realities in life - yup, it comes to an end. The other day I heard a zoologist talking about some environmental problem that was causing an abnormally high fatality rate in some woodland creature - rabbits, I think. The zoologist spoke of the animals "passing away". Are we so reluctant to use the word that now we can't even refer to some random animal's expiration as its "death"? No, that would be shocking - that poor rabbit didn't die, it "passed". My father died a few years ago. I loved and respected him, and was very sad to lose him. At the time it happened, and now, I tell people that he died. I never say he "Passed Away". My using the word "died" is not harsh or impolite or disrespectful...my dad's life ended. The right and proper word for that event is "death". Saying that he "passed" will not change anything or bring him back to life. It's a stupid euphemism. That's my rant for the day. Thank you. Edited by: misswonderly on Nov 27, 2013 10:19 AM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CountessDracula Posted November 27, 2013 Share Posted November 27, 2013 According to both McCartney and Lennon, it is John Lennon who says it and he is saying cranberry sauce. This link includes a short recording of Lennon talking about it: http://www.beatlesagain.com/bmyths.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lorry_Driver Posted November 27, 2013 Share Posted November 27, 2013 Thank you, Countess. I will be playing my vinyl copy of Magical Mystery Tour while having my Cranberry Sauce tomorrow. LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lorry_Driver Posted November 27, 2013 Share Posted November 27, 2013 Wasn't it Ringo who sang? *Don't pass me by, don't make me cry, don't make me blue* *'Cause you know darling I love only you* *You never know it hurt me so, how I hate to see you go* *Don't pass my by, don't make me cry* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sepiatone Posted November 28, 2013 Author Share Posted November 28, 2013 > According to both McCartney and Lennon, it is John Lennon who says it and he is saying cranberry sauce. Those guys, especially Lennon, used to like to have a lot of "fun" with the press. Like Lennon's explanation of why they spelled Beatles with an "A". "I had a dream where a lady came to me on a flaming pie. She said, 'It should be BEATLES with an A' and so it is!" Sepiatone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lorry_Driver Posted November 28, 2013 Share Posted November 28, 2013 So you're intimating that John isn't saying Cranberry Sauce? We better get out our shovels then, he musta said, "I Bury Paul." But he could be saying, "Blueberry Tart." or "The Walrus was Paul." LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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