Friday, September 15, 2006
Bobby Troup, songwriter, has been dead since February 7, 1999. He died of a heart attack, at 80. Many older people know Troup as the author of the song Get Your Kicks on Route 66. However, we Baby Boomers know him as kindly, diplomatic neurosurgeon Joe Early from the television show Emergency!,... Sign in to see full entry.
Julie London (reconstructed from Themestream)
Back when I was on Themestream, I wrote a tribute to the late Julie London, who died on October 18, 2000, of a long (and unspecified) illness, at age 74. She was famous as a "torch singer," her most famous hit being Cry Me A River (not the more recent popular song of the same name, but a Big... Sign in to see full entry.