People You Thought Were Dead

[GNC]

Ooh, I know 'im from the X Files movie Fight the Future.

Yes! He is in that. Little guy, big talent.

 

[Schrodinger's Zebra]

Yes! He is in that. Little guy, big talent.

Yep, likeable in things we've seen him in.

Just discussing him with Mr Zebra, who pointed out he was also in The Thirteenth Floor.

I'll stop naming films now.

 

[Lord Lucan]

After the death of John LeCarre I was thinking about other writers of spy stories and thought of Len Deighton who I assumed had died many years ago. But it turns out he's still with us at the age of 91.

That makes two of us. I always enjoyed his stories too.

 

[cycleboy2]

That makes two of us. I always enjoyed his stories too.

He was the hand-double for Michael Caine in the Ipcress File when Harry Palmer cracks the eggs into the bowl.

 

[Gloucestrian]

Richard Riehle. I confidentiality asserted that he was dead the other day when he was on an old TV movie my other half was watching. I could have sworn he died about 5 years ago.

 

[Sally]

I was very surprised to see Jose Feliciano on tv a few days ago, as I thought he'd been dead for years.

 

[Lord Lucan]

I was very surprised to see Jose Feliciano on tv a few days ago, as I thought he'd been dead for years.

I was talking with someone just last week about Jose in a discussion about the best concerts we had ever been to. She was telling me that on a whim, she'd bought 2 tickets for her and her teenage daughter to see Jose in Sydney in 2018 and it was the best concert they had ever seen. Her daughter (who had never heard of him before) still raves about it two years later.

 

[Vardoger]

I was pretty sure I have read somewhere Betty White died 2-3 weeks ago, but no she's still going strong.
Have I entered a new timeline?

 

[gordonrutter]

I was pretty sure I have read somewhere Betty White died 2-3 weeks ago, but no she's still going strong.
Have I entered a new timeline?

Just celebrated her 99th birthday a week ago.

 

[Mythopoeika]

Have I entered a new timeline?

Looks like we have.

 

[Ghost In The Machine]

Saw a link in another thread earlier to this guy, the self styled "chief druid" (he's not at all), Arthur Pendragon:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-55329808

I could have sworn he died 10 years ago.

 

[escargot]

The actor George Costigan, born 8 August 1947. For some reason I could SWEAR he died three or four years ago.
I'm glad he didn't!

Wonder who I was thinking of?

 

[escargot]

Saw a link in another thread earlier to this guy, the self styled "chief druid" (he's not at all), Arthur Pendragon:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-55329808

I could have sworn he died 10 years ago.

He creeps me out.

 

[JamesWhitehead]

Tony Bennett still alive and recording at 94!

I'm sorry to hear he has Alzheimer's.

Truth to tell, it was always, "And now, Tony Bennett sings . . . click!" whenever I could reach the switch. I cannot lie. :fslap:

 

[ChasFink]

I saw Tony Bennett on my honeymoon in Las Vegas a little more than 15 years ago. It was in a little room with less than 500 seats and I was amazed then at how good he sounded even at that age. He actually sang one song without amplification - pretty good trick even in a small theater, but even more stunning when he did the same thing at the much larger Radio City Music Hall not too long after that!

As for the topic at hand, for me it usually happens when I hear of a celebrity death: "I thought he/she was already dead!" Most recently, Cloris Leachman.

 

[Peripart]

I hadn't thought about the great cricket umpire Dickie Bird for a while, but if you'd asked me, I'd probably have thought that he'd left us.

Fortunately not, and here he is (at 88!) advising the old 'uns to keep active during the lockdown:

"It's been really 'ard"

(Link to BBC article & video)

Top man!

 

[escargot]

I saw Tony Bennett on my honeymoon in Las Vegas a little more than 15 years ago. It was in a little room with less than 500 seats and I was amazed then at how good he sounded even at that age. He actually sang one song without amplification - pretty good trick even in a small theater, but even more stunning when he did the same thing at the much larger Radio City Music Hall not too long after that!

When we saw him in some '70s music show t'other night I remarked to Techy that his voice was so strong and powerful, yet there he was jigging along with a seaside backdrop to a cheerful ditty about a condemned man's final hours.

 

[Vardoger]

When we saw him in some '70s music show t'other night I remarked to Techy that his voice was so strong and powerful, yet there he was jigging along with a seaside backdrop to a cheerful ditty about a condemned man's final hours.

And the relevance to Tony Christie is...?

 

[Mythopoeika]

And the relevance to Tony Christie is...?

Tony Christie and Tony Bennett both have the same first name.
That's it!

 

[escargot]

And the relevance to Tony Christie is...?

Hahaha, yup, well, my observation still applies even to the wrong singer!

 

[Tigerhawk]

Hahaha, yup, well, my observation still applies even to the wrong singer!

All singers are wrong 'uns!

Especially this one:

 

[Vardoger]

All singers are wrong 'uns!

Especially this one:
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She has released a country album? That must sound special...

 

[GNC]

Nana Mouskouri is kind of Fortean in that she has a single vocal chord. So don't scoff too much, she's quite incredible in her way.

 

[Mythopoeika]

Nana Mouskouri is kind of Fortean in that she has a single vocal chord. So don't scoff too much, she's quite incredible in her way.

I didn't know that.

 

[maximus otter]

Nana Mouskouri is kind of Fortean in that she has a single vocal chord. So don't scoff too much, she's quite incredible in her way.

Even singing one chord would be quite a feat.

maximus otter

 

[blessmycottonsocks]

Even singing one chord would be quite a feat.

maximus otter

It's known as polyphonic or overtone singing!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overtone_singing

 

[maximus otter]

It's known as polyphonic or overtone singing!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overtone_singing

l know it as “throat singing”:

l’ve always thought of it as more like uilleann pipes or bagpipes, i.e. producing a “drone” note in key with the melody.

Not what l associate with Ms. Mouskouri!

maximus otter

 

[GerdaWordyer]

Truth to tell, it was always, "And now, Tony Bennett sings . . . click!" whenever I could reach the switch. I cannot lie. :fslap:

Funny, lounge singing is one of my least favorite genres, so for Frank Sinatra--fast click, same for Jack Jones, Steve Lawrence, and so on. But I can stand hearing a few Tony Bennett numbers. He has a touch of soul.

 

[escargot]

Truth to tell, it was always, "And now, Tony Bennett sings . . . click!" whenever I could reach the switch. I cannot lie. :fslap:
Funny, lounge singing is one of my least favorite genres, so for Frank Sinatra--fast click, same for Jack Jones, Steve Lawrence, and so on. But I can stand hearing a few Tony Bennett numbers. He has a touch of soul.

After mixing up Messrs Christie and Bennett (I'm blaming using my phone) I was going to stay out of this, but you're so right.

My sisters were born in 1949/50 and told me that before Elvis and then the Beatles came along it was all crooners.

Pop music was hard for them to find and listen to anyway. Can remember one sister loitering in the street with her teenage friends and rushing over to the pub, to stand outside and listen to her favourite singer on the jukebox through the window.

Youngsters today wouldn't put up with THAT!

 

[ramonmercado]

Youngsters today wouldn't put up with THAT!

Nah, they'd smash the window to hear it better.