Willie Mitchell died he was 81

Willie Mitchell  was an American soul, R&B, rock and roll,pop and funk record producer and arranger, who ran Royal Recording in Memphis, Tennessee. He was best known for his Hi Records label of the 1970s, which released albums by a large stable of popular Memphis soul artists, including Mitchell himself, Al Green, Syl Johnson andAnn Peebles He was 81. Mitchell's son, Lawrence Mitchell, said his father suffered a cardiac arrest on Dec. 19.

(March 1, 1928 – January 5, 2010)

Willie Mitchell owned Royal Studio where Buddy Guy, John Mayer and many others recorded their music.


In the 1970s, Mitchell also owned Hi Records of Memphis, the label that produced some of Green's biggest hits. Green, also from Memphis, was flying to Australia and unavailable for comment Tuesday.


At Hi, Mitchell was responsible for several instrumental hits of the 1960s and helped the careers of Green and singer Ann Peebles in the 1970s. Even in later years, Mitchell stayed busy at his studio, working with then-emerging talents like Mayer and Anthony Hamilton.
Most recently, he wrote string and horn arrangements for Rod Stewart's new album of R&B covers, and produced a still-unreleased album from soul kingpin Solomon Burke.
He received a Trustees Award from the Grammy Foundation in 2008.
A trumpeter, Mitchell and his band provided the musical entertainment at several New Year's Eve parties for Elvis Presley at Presley's Graceland home. A Memphis boulevard was named in his honor in 2004.

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Casey Johnson died she was 30

Jets owner Woody Johnson's troubled daughter Casey, who was battling drugs and alcohol, was found dead Monday in her California home she was 30. Casey Johnson, the heiress to the Johnson & Johnson fortune who recently made tabloid headlines with a purported engagement to reality star Tila Tequila.


(September 24, 1979 – January 4, 2010) 

The body of the 30-year-old socialite, whose worried parents had cut off her trust fund in an act of tough love, was discovered by her maid.

Her death was announced by Tequila on her Twitter page and confirmed by police.
"Everyone please pray 4 my Wifey Casey Johnson," Tequila wrote. "She has passed away. Thank u for all ur love and support but I will be offline to be w/ family."'


Los Angeles police and firefighters were called to a house at 11:51 a.m. Monday. Johnson was pronounced dead at the scene.
"It appears to be a natural death," says police Officer Sara Faden. "There's no evidence of foul play. A toxicology report from the coroner's office will proceed next."
Johnson, who leaves a toddler daughter Ava whom she had adopted, was the great-great granddaughter of the founder of the pharmaceutical giant, and the daughter of New York Jets owner Robert Wood Johnson.
An openly gay socialite, Johnson had a knack for attracting paparazzi -- and trouble. A nasty fight with ex-girlfriend Courtenay Semel, daughter of former Yahoo chief Terry Semel, reportedly resulted in Johnson's hair catching on fire last October. Then in November, she was arrested for allegedly breaking into another former girlfriend's house.

In December, Tequila announced the pair were engaged. "Tonight, my beautiful girlfriend has just asked me to marry her and check out this rock," the lingerie-wearing Tequila said in an Internet video. "Bam! That is a 17-carat diamond ring from my baby."

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Roberto Sanchez "Sandro" died he was 64

Roberto Sánchez died he was 64. Sanchez better known by his artist names Sandro/Sandro de América ("Sandro of America" in Spanish) or Gitano (gypsy), was an Argentine singer and actor.

(August 19, 1945 - January 4, 2010)

He learned to play the guitar as a child, identifying his music as Romani^[1]. His paternal grandfather was Russian Rom - Roma are known in Argentina as Gitanos^[2][3]. Considered as a precursor of Rock music in Spanish, initially he imitated Elvis Presley, but afterwards he created a personal style that marked his career. He started the musical group Sandro & los de Fuego, which gained popularity on the TV show Sábados Circulares. He became well-known in the decades 1960-1970 with songs like Trigal, Tengo, ¿A esto le llamas amor?, Eres el demonio disfrazado, Porque yo te amo and Rosa, Rosa. He died on January 4, 2010 of complications from heart and lung transplant surgery. He was 64.


Sandro also appeared in various films, among others: Quiero Llenarme de Ti ("I Want to fill myself with you") and telenovelas, among others: Fue sin Querer ("It wasn't on purpose"), with Puerto Rican actress: Gladys Rodríguez. He was the first Latino singer to fill Madison Square Garden doing so five times during the 1970s. Sandro was also the first singer to do a television concert via satellite. The concert was broadcast from Madison Square Garden on April 1970. This concert marked the debut of Latino music for a world audience.
In the 1990s Argentine and other Latin American artists made the CD Padre del rock en castellano ("Father of Spanish Rock") in his honor.On November 20, 2009, Sandro received a double transplant (heart and lungs) in Mendoza, Argentina. 5 days later, Argentine TV (Cronica TV) reported Sandro was breathing without a respirator. On 4 January at 20:40, after 45 days of receiving a double cardio-pulmonary transplant, and after many complications, Roberto Sanchez, Sandro de América died of septic shock, mesenteric ischemia and disseminated intravascular coagulation in the Hospital Italiano of Mendoza. Latin America media commented almost immediately on his death. ^[4].

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Bill Gleason died he was 87,

William G. Gleason [Will] died he wa 87. Gleason was a shortstop in Major League Baseball who played from 1882 through 1889 for three different teams of the American Association . Listed at 5' 8", 170 lb., Gleason batted and threw right-handed. He was born in St. Louis, Missouri. His older brother, Jack Gleason, also was a ballplayer.

(November 12, 1858 - July 21, 1932)

Gleason entered the majors in 1882 with the St. Louis Browns, playing for them six years before joining the Philadelphia Athletics (1888) and Louisville Colonels (1889). His most productive season came in 1887, when he posted career numbers in batting average (.288), runs (135), hits (172), hits (97) and on-base percentage (.342). A member of three St. Louis champion teams from 1885-87, in 1883 and 1885 he led the league in games played.

In an eight-season career, Gleason was a .267 hitter (907-for-3395) with seven home runs and 298 RBI in 798 games, including 613 runs, 111 doubles, and 35 triples. Incomplete data shows him stealing 70 bases and getting hit by 52 pitches.

Gleason died in his native St. Louis at the age of 73.

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Jean Carroll died she was 98

Jean Carroll died she was 98. Carrol was an American actress and comedienne during the 1950s and 1960s  died he was 98.

 
(January 7, 1911 – January 1, 2010)




Carroll was born as Celine Zeigman on January 7, 1911 in Paris, France She began her career as part of a song-and-dance team with her husband, vaudevillian Buddy Howe, who later became her manager. She appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show more than 20 times and had her own short-lived sitcom, The Jean Carroll Show (or Take It From Me), which aired for one season in (1953-1954).^[1]
In November 2006, she was honored with an evening at the Friar's Club in New York City, the emcee was Joy Behar and the main speaker was Lily Tomlin. In 2007, Carroll was featured in the Off-Broadway production The J.A.P. Show: Jewish American Princesses of Comedy, which includes live standup routines by four female Jewish comics juxtaposed with the stories of legendary performers from the 1950s and 1960s, Belle Barth, Pearl Williams and Betty Walker, Totie Fields, and Carroll herself. She was later featured in 2009 in the P.B.S. documentary, Make 'em Laugh.^[2]
She died on January 1, 2010 in White Plains, New York, five days before her 99th birthday.^[3]
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Richard Kindleberger died he was , 67

Richard Kindleberger died he was 67. Kindleberger was an American newspaper reporter who worked at the Boston Globe.

(1943 - January 1, 2010)

Richard Kindleberger was born in Baltimore, Maryland, 1943, and later grew in Lincoln, Nebraska. He had one sister and two brothers. His father, Charles P. Kindleberger, was an economist at MIT and an architect of the Marshal Plan. In 1960, Richard graduated from Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School and began to develop his fondess for languages and learned Russian, French, German, and Spanish. After graduating from Cornell Univeristy in 1967, he began to work as a reporter at the Worcester Evening Gazette for almost 3 years. When Richard received a master’s in Russian literature, he was later hired by the globe where he works as an environmental reporter and a copy editor in 1972. He joined a spotlight team and had to help investigate reports on abuses in the State's Civil Service System and the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard. He explained to readers that civil service problems were transcended examples from workers that had political connections.

On 1978, Richard married Sarah Wells and later had two daughters named Kate and Carrie Kindleberger. Richard spent more than 12 years with Sarah until she died from a cancer. Richard took care of his two daughters for almost three years until he later married Jean Hale.

Spending at least thirty years as a reporter and editor, Richard died from a brain tumor on the first day of 2010.

Gregory Slay died he was 40

Former Remy Zero drummer Gregory Slay Remy Zero are a Birmingham, Alabama-based alternative rock band made up of Cinjun Tate (vocals, guitar), Shelby Tate (guitar, keyboards, vocals), Cedric LeMoyne (bass guitar), Jeffrey Cain (guitar) and formerly Gregory Slay (drums, percussion) before his death in January 2010 he passed away New Year's Day following a lifelong battle with cystic fibrosis. He was 40..

(January 1, 2010)

In spite of the illness, Slay found immediate success with the Birmingham, Ala.-based band when the group's demo famously landed in the hands of Radiohead, who were so impressed they invited Remy Zero to join them on their 'Bends' tour. From there, Remy Zero went on to record three albums, scoring hit singles with 1998's 'Prophecy' and 2001's 'Save Me.' The latter would be their last hit; they disbanded in 2003. While there was talk of reuniting in 2006, the band decided to make the hiatus permanent and continue with their individual projects.


For Slay, that meant working on his own music as Sleepwell and various other projects, including his Emmy-nominated work on the theme song for the television series 'Nip/Tuck.' He also worked frequently with his former Remy Zero band mates, most recently teaming up with guitarist Jeffrey Cain on an album produced for Mobile, Ala. musician Eliot Morris called 'All Things In Time.'

The strong bond between the group is evidenced by the statement they issued on Slay's passing.


"Our beloved friend, partner, brother, master musician, beautiful artist -- passed away this morning, January 1, 2010. He was in a peaceful place and surrounded by his family. We are so grateful for the time we were allowed with each other and for the wonderful opportunity to create with him for so many years. Gregory inspired all who had the chance to see him perform, to hear the music that he made or just to be around his bountiful spirit. He will be greatly missed.With our deepest love ... Jeffrey Cain, Cedric LeMoyne, Cinjun Tate and Shelby Tate -- the members of Remy Zero."


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