R.I.P. Celebrities(Non Wrestlers) 2022

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Dixie Cups Member Rosa Lee Hawkins—of ‘Chapel of Love’ Fame—Dead at 76

Rosa Lee Hawkins, one of the founding members of the New Orleans “girl group” trio The Dixie Cups—best known for their 1964 #1 hit “Chapel of Love”—died

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60s girl groups getting hit hard. RIP.

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Budgie singer / bassist Burke Shelley dies age 71

The Welsh musician's power trio counted Metallica, Iron Maiden, Van Halen, Megadeth and Opeth amongst their fans

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Former All-American Jim Bakhtiar dies at 88

native of Tehran, Iran, Bakhtiar came to the United States as an 11-year-old in 1946. He began playing football as a youngster growing up in Washington, D.C., first at Wilson High School and then at the Bullis School. Recruited to UVa by Harrison “Chief” Nesbit, Bahktiar starred as a fullback and linebacker during his college career from 1955-57.

Bahktiar finished his college career ranked first in ACC history in rushing (2,434 yards), rushing attempts (555) and most 100-yard games — all records that stood until 1968. He also posted the No. 2 and No. 3 top rushing seasons in ACC history (and three of top eight) and remained so until 1964. He was Virginia’s first three-time All-ACC selection, garnering second team honors in 1955 and first team accolades in 1956 and 1957.

Bakhtiar led the ACC in rushing as a senior in 1957 and earned first-team All-America honors from the Football Writers Association of America and Look magazine. Following the conclusion of his college career, Bakhtiar played one year of professional football with the Calgary Stampeders of the Canadian Football League.

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So weird seeing Edmonton Maple Leafs even if it is minor league.

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247sports.com/college/kentucky/Article/kentucky-basketball-joe-b-hall-dead-at-93-180655563/

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Country Music Hall of Famer, Nashville broadcasting star Ralph Emery dead at 88

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www.rollingstone.com/music/music-country/dallas-frazier-songwriter-elvira-dead-obit-1285401/

Dallas Frazier, Country Songwriter of ‘Elvira’ and ‘Beneath Still Waters,’ Dead at 82

Dallas Frazier, the country songwriter behind enduring hits like “Elvira” and “Beneath Still Waters,” died Jan. 14, his family announced on Facebook. He was 82.

Born Oct. 27, 1939, in Spiro, Oklahoma, Frazier, like many other Oklahomans of his generation, was raised in California after his family relocated to Bakersfield. Frazier’s musical career began before he was even a teenager when Ferlin Husky offered him a job at the age of 12. He had also begun performing on Cliffie Stone’s radio and television program Hometown Jamboree and, as a 14-year-old in 1954, he cut his first single, the whimsical outer-space romp “Space Command,” for Capitol Records.

In 1957, Frazier released “Alley Oop,” a novelty song about a charismatic caveman that would become a chart-topping one-hit-wonder for the Hollywood Argyles in 1960. After he relocated to Nashville, he began to find his rhythm as a songwriter. Husky had a hit with Frazier’s “Timber I’m Falling” in 1964, Charlie Rich cut his “Mohair Sam” — another swaggering “Alley Oop”-type tune — in 1966, and Jack Greene topped the charts with “There Goes My Everything” that same year, earning Frazier a Grammy nomination.

Frazier released his debut album Elvira in 1966, the title track of which would become his best-known song. While Frazier’s version didn’t move the needle all the much (nor did Rodney Crowell’s 1978 cover), the Oak Ridge Boys turned “Elvira” into a massive crossover hit. Driven by its indelible “giddy up oom-papa-mow-mow” refrain from the group’s deep-voiced Richard Sterban, the song was a 1981 smash, topping the country chart and breaking into the Top 5 on the Billboard Hot 100.

“We lost a dear friend today. Dallas Frazier had an influence on our country music career from the beginning,” the Oaks wrote on Facebook. “He wrote ‘The Baptism of Jesse’ but his influence in the 1980s was even greater when we recorded his song ‘Elvira.’”

Frazier continued to pile up the songwriting credits. George Jones and Connie Smith recorded entire albums of Frazier’s work, while country stars Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, and Moe Bandy also took a turn with his songs. Frazier earned a Grammy Award for Best Country Song in 1970 for “All I Have to Offer You (Is Me),” which Charley Pride took to Number One. Emmylou Harris earned her fourth Number One in 1980 with Frazier’s devastating ballad “Beneath Still Waters,” which he originally wrote in 1967.

In 1976, Frazier was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. Before the end of the Eighties, he largely left the music industry to devote his life to Christian ministry.

“Dallas Frazier is among the greatest country songwriters of all time,” said Kyle Young, CEO, Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in a statement. “He could convey infectious fun with ‘Elvira,’ and then write something as stunningly sad and true as ‘Beneath Still Waters. He was a man of kindness, generosity, and faith, who overcame a hardscrabble upbringing to offer smiling gifts to all of us.”

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Rip to two country ledgends.

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Giddy up, oom poppa, omm poppa, mow mow
Giddy up, oom poppa, omm poppa, mow mow, heigh-ho Silver, away