Paul Tanner (October 15, 1917 – February 5, 2013)

Paul Tanner, the last surviving member of the Glenn Miller Orchestra died this
past Tuesday in Carlsbad, California. The trombonist performed with the Glenn
Miller Orchestra from 1938-42, when Miller joined the Army Air Force during
World War II and started a military band.

Tanner later developed the Electro-Theremin , the distinctive instrument heard
on the Beach Boys songs “Good Vibrations, “ “I Just Wasn’t Made for These
Times,’’ and “Wild Honey”. Tanner himself played the unusual instrument.

Paul Tanner with the Electro-Theremin

Paul Tanner (Far left) and members of the brass section from the Glenn Miller Orchestra.

Music legend Nat King Cole with a young daughter Natalie

This was Natalie Cole’s debut single in 1975 and one of her biggest hits that became a number-one R&B hit. It helped her win the Grammy Award for Best New Artist.

 
Zsa Zsa Gabor with Larry King

In 2002, the Hungarian–born supporting actress was a passenger in an auto
crash in Los Angeles, from which she became partially paralyzed and reliant
on a wheelchair for mobility.

Gabor survived strokes in 2005 and 2007 and underwent numerous surgeries.In
2010, she fractured and had successful hip replacement surgery. In 2011, her 
right leg was amputated above the knee to save her life from an infection. She  
was hospitalized again in 2011 for various emergencies.

 
Zsa Zsa and her husband Frédéric Prinz von Anhalt

Fabian (Fabiano Anthony Forte) was a teen idol of the late
1950s and early 1960s. Eleven of his songs reached the
Billboard Hot 100 charts.

Fabian hosts the hit show The Original Stars of  Bandstand
at The Dick Clark Theater in Branson, Missouri.The show
stars Fabian and Bobby Vee and features The Chiffons,
Brian Hyland, Chris Montez and rare footage of the
performers and Dick Clark.