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Hunter, who was a full-time musician in the Detroit area at the time of his death, was survived by his son Joe Jr., a daughter Michelle, and three grand children Joe III, Nathan and Isaac. He is not to be confused with the Texan pianist Ivory Joe Hunter, who died in 1974 or with the […] More

The Spinners were formed in 1954 by five friends in High School while growing up in Ferndale, Royal Oak Township, Michigan. Their name came from the fashionably large hubcaps, fashionable in the US throughout the Fifties.In 1962, the group went under the name of Harvey & The Spinners, and also Bobby Smith And The Spinners. […] More

McComb was born the youngest of four boys. His parents were both doctors, his father, Dr Harold McComb, a prominent plastic surgeon and his mother, Dr Athel Hockey (AO), a renowned geneticist. The family resided in a historical residence, The Cliffe in McNeil Street, Peppermint Grove. All the boys attended Christ Church Grammar School in […] More

There had been a party to celebrate Vicious’ release on $50,000 (£29,412) bail pending his trial for the murder of his former girlfriend, Nancy Spungen, the previous October. Party guests, said that Vicious had taken heroin at midnight. An autopsy confirmed that Vicious died from an accumulation of fluid in the lungs that was consistent […] More

Blair moved to Los Angeles in the 1940s as a musician and songwriter in the Rhythm Rangers and was soon providing material for Hollywood’s singing-cowboy movies of the era. In the 1950s, Hal teamed up with his most noteworthy collaborator, Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame member Don Robertson.One of the leading lights of the country […] More

Maurice was a married father of three (2 sons and 1 daughter) and owned two homes in California; one in Carmel Valley, and the other, a four-level condominium in Los Angeles. As recorded in his obituary, His parents, Dr. and Mrs. Verdine White, Sr., had a total of 10 children and Maurice White was the […] More

Best known as the lead singer and songwriter for The Troggs, Presley was hospitalized in Winchester, Hampshire, in December 2011 with what was suspected to be a stroke. He was also suffering from pneumonia and fluid around the heart. Presley had suffered a major stroke about a year before. His wife said he first began […] More

FEBRUARY 4, 2013 – Singer DARLENE McCREA (b. c. 1938 in Bellhaven, North Carolina as Ethel McCrea) died of cancer. Best known as a founding member of The Cookies, and The Raelettes, McCrea began singing in church with her sisters as a youth in Brooklyn, New York. In 1954, she co-founded The Cookies, whose membership also originally included […] More

FEBRUARY 4, 2003 – Drummer/vocalist/actor CLAUDE PEPPER (b. April 28, 1952 in Staten Island, New York City as Jack Mack) died of cancer at his home in Sacramento, California at age 50. He was survived by his wife of 22 years, Debbie, and their sons Nick and Kevin, his parents Anna Marie and Jim Mack, a brother Jimmie […] More

His funeral in Indianapolis drew jazz musicians, friends and family from around the country. Johnson was one of the first trombonists to embrace bebop music. He has long been regarded as one of the leading trombonists of the post-swing era, exerting a pervasive influence on other jazz musicians. Johnson’s work in the 1940s and 1950s […] More

Known as “The King of the Jukebox”, Jordan was a pioneering entertainer, popular from the late 1930s to the early 1950s. Between 1942-1950 he scored eighteen #1 singles and fifty-four Top Ten hits on the US R&B chart and was highly popular with both black and white audiences in the later years of the swing […] More

Byrd was a jazz and R&B sideman for many other jazz musicians of his generation, best known as one of the only bebop jazz musicians who successfully pioneered the funk and soul genres while simultaneously remaining a jazz artist. As a bandleader, Byrd is also notable for his influential role in the early career of […] More