NEW YORK (TNND) — According to a family statement, Wayne
Osmond, who was one of the founding members of the family
act The Osmonds, died January 1 at the age of 73 after suffering
a massive stroke.
NEW YORK (TNND) — According to a family statement, Wayne
Osmond, who was one of the founding members of the family
act The Osmonds, died January 1 at the age of 73 after suffering
a massive stroke.
Toriano Adaryll “Tito” Jackson, one of the brothers who made
up the beloved pop group the Jackson 5, has died.
On September 15, , Jackson suffered a heart attack while on a
business road trip in Gallup, New Mexico and died a local
hospital.
Tito was the third of nine Jackson children, which include
global superstars Michael and sister Janet, part of a music-
making family whose songs are still beloved today.
(From left) Mary Ann Ganser (died 1970), Betty Weiss,
Marge Ganser (died 1996) and Mary Weiss of The
Shangri-Las pose for a portrait Circa 1964.
Mary Weiss, the lead singer of 1960s pop group The Shangri-Las,
has died at the age of 75.
The female group rose to stardom with a run of hit songs about
teenage love and tragedy, including “Remember (Walking In The
Sand)” and “Leader Of The Pack”, which was later inducted into
the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s singles category.
Mary vanished from the music scene for decades, returning in
2007 to record her first solo album with Norton Records.
The announcement of her death, made on Friday, did not disclose
the cause.
In 2019, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland,
Ohio honored the Shangri-Las’ "Leader of the Pack",
on which Weiss sang lead, in its Singles category.
(AP) – Rudolph Isley, a founding member of the Isley Brothers
who helped perform such raw rhythm and blues classics as
“Shout" and “Twist and Shout” and the funky hits “That Lady”
and “It’s Your Thing,” has died at age 84.
There are no words to express my feelings and the love I have
for my brother. Our family will miss him. But I know he’s in a
better place," Ronald Isley said in a statement released
Thursday by an Isley Brothers publicist. Further details
were not immediately available.
A Cincinnati native, Rudolph Isley began singing in church with
brothers Ronald and O’Kelly (another sibling, Vernon, died at
age 13) and was still in his teens when they broke through in
the late 1950s with “Shout,” a secularized gospel rave that was
later immortalized during the toga party scene in “Animal House.”
The Isleys scored again in the early 1960s with the equally spirited
“Twist and Shout,” which the Beatles liked so much they used it
as the closing song on their debut album and opened with it for
their famed 1965 concert at Shea Stadium.
Singer-songwriter Terry Kirkman, a founding member of the
1960s folk-rock band the Association, has died at 83.
In the years following his departure from the Association,
Kirkman retired from the music industry, and worked in
California as an addictions counselor.
Kirkman lived in Montclair, California with his wife Heidi.