Sam DeLuca, American football player and broadcaster (New York Jets), died from pancreatic cancer at 75.

Saverio Frank "Sam" DeLuca  was an American Professional Football offensive lineman in the American Football League and later a radio and television football coverage broadcaster. He played six seasons, three for the Los Angeles/San Diego Chargers and three for the New York Jets. He was a member of the 1969 New York Jet Championship season on IR. After football, he had a long career in sports broadcasting. He was the color commentator on the Jets’ radio broadcasts on WABC and then WOR before working NFL telecasts for NBC Sports and on the Jets’ pre-season games in the 1970s and 1980s. He went to Lafayette High School (Brooklyn) with Sandy Koufax, Larry King and Fred Wilpon.^[1]

(May 2, 1936 – September 13, 2011)

Playing career

DeLuca was a three-year letterman in football at the University of South Carolina from 1954 through 1956. As a starting offensive tackle, he played for head coaches Rex Enright in his first two seasons and Warren Giese as a senior.^[2] DeLuca graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Education in 1957.^[3] He was inducted into the University of South Carolina Athletic Hall of Fame in 2005.^[2] He was also honored by the South Carolina Athletic Hall of Fame.^[4]
DeLuca was selected in the second round (23rd overall) by the New York Giants in the 1957 National Football League (NFL) Draft.^[2] He signed with the Giants for US $7,000 a year with a $500 bonus.^[3] He was to have succeeded starting offensive lineman Bill Austin, who was strongly considering retirement at the time. When Austin decided to play one more year,^[1] DeLuca was sent to the Canadian Football League's Toronto Argonauts, where he spent three seasons from 1957 through 1959.^[5]

Broadcasting career

DeLuca's first regular sportscasting assignment was hosting the pre- and postgame shows for New York Mets games on WABC-FM in 1968 and 1969.^[6] Phil Pepe, then a baseball writer for the Daily News who had graduated a year ahead of DeLuca at Lafayette High School, helped him prepare for the assignment.^[7]

Death

DeLuca died at age 75 of pancreatic cancer at his home in Pelham, New York on September 13, 2011.^[1]
To see more of who died in 2011 click here

Wilma Lee Cooper, American country music singer, died from natural causes at 90.

Wilma Lee Leary , known professionally as Wilma Lee Cooper, was an American bluegrass-based country music entertainer.

(February 7, 1921 – September 13, 2011)

Biography

Born in Valley Head, West Virginia, Leary sang in her youth with her family's gospel music group, The Leary Family, which included her parents and sisters. They recorded for the Library Of Congress in 1938.
In 1939, Leary married fiddler and vocalist Dale T. "Stoney" Cooper, who was a musical accompanist for the Leary Family, and the duo formed their own bluegrass group, Wilma Lee & Stoney Cooper and the Clinch Mountain Clan. They were regulars for ten years on Wheeling, West Virginia's WWVA-AM's rival to the Grand Ole Opry, WWVA Jamboree, beginning in 1947 before joining the Opry in 1957.
Wilma Lee and Stoney Cooper had remarkable record success in the late 1950s and early 1960s on Hickory Records given both their bluegrass sound (which has rarely been as commercially successful) and the damage rock-n-roll was doing to country music's popularity at the time. They scored seven hit records between 1956 and 1961, with four top ten hits on Billboard charts, notably "Big Midnight Special" and "There's a Big Wheel." They remained connected to the Leary Family tradition as well, recording popular gospel songs like "The Tramp on the Street" and "Walking My Lord Up Calvary's Hill."
Cooper died in 1977 but Wilma Lee stayed on the Opry as a solo star and on occasion recorded an album for a bluegrass record label. In 2001 she suffered a stroke while performing on the Opry stage which ended her career, but Cooper defied doctors who said she would never walk again and eventually returned to the Opry to greet and thank the crowds.
The Cooper's daughter, Carol Lee Cooper, is the lead singer for the Grand Ole Opry's backup vocal group, The Carol Lee Singers.
Wilma Lee Cooper died on September 13, 2011 at her home in Sweetwater, Tenn. from natural causes. She had been a member of the Opry since 1957 and was 90 years old. Her last solo performance on the Opry was at the Ryman Auditorium on February 24, 2001. Wilma Lee joined the Opry cast at the grand re-opening of the Opry House on September 28, 2010 for a group sing-along.

Discography

Singles with Stoney Cooper

Year	Single	US Country
1956	"Cheated Too"	14
1958	"Come Walk with Me" (with Carol Lee)	4
1959	"Big Midnight Special"	4
	"There's a Big Wheel"	3
1960	"Johnny, My Love (Grandma's Diary)"	17
	"This Ole House"	16
1961	"Wreck on the Highway"	8

LP Gusto Records PO-242 (1975) Wilma Lee and Stoney Cooper - Walking my Lord up Calvary's Hill
To see more of who died in 2011 click here

John Calley, American movie studio executive, died at 81.

John Calley was an American film studio executive and producer. He was quite influential during his years at Warner Bros. (where he worked from 1968 to 1981)^[2] and "produced a film a month, on average, including commercial successes like The Exorcist and Superman."^[3] During his seven years at Sony Pictures Entertainment starting in 1996, five of which he was chairman and chief executive, he was credited with "reinvigorat[ing]" that major film studio.^[4]

(July 8, 1930 – September 13, 2011)

Awards and nominations

Together with Mike Nichols and Ismail Merchant, Calley produced 1993's The Remains of the Day, for which the trio received an Oscar nomination—Calley's only such Best Picture nomination.
A best picture nomination Calley potentially missed was when, as Sony's new head, he nixed the studio's backing of Terence Malick's 1998 film The Thin Red Line, reportedly because he thought Malick couldn't keep to the budget. (The film stayed on budget and received seven Academy Award nominations.)
He was honored with the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences at the inaugural Governors Awards ceremony on November 11, 2009.^[5] For the ceremony, Calley, unable to attend in person due to illness, recorded remarks that were projected on a giant video screen, remarks characterizing the life of a film studio executive and called "one of the night's more startling bits of honesty": "You're very unhappy for a long period of time. And you don’t experience joy. At the end you experience relief, if you’re lucky."^[6]
According to Mervyn LeRoy in his autobiography Mervyn LeRoy: Take One, Calley played a big role in LeRoy's exit of Warner Bros. when The Kinney Company acquired it. Calley notified LeRoy that due to a "change in corporate thinking", the studio was not going to support his effort in producing the story Thirteen Clocks. When LeRoy asked Calley about the promises that he had made before, Calley answered "We'll have to wait and see".^[7]

Personal

Calley attended Columbia University in the late 1940s, and then briefly served in the Army.^[8] His early life also included working for his father—"who had possible criminal ties"—as a used-car dealer.^[9] His first significant industry job was at NBC's New York headquarters, at age 21, ^[10] when he started in the mailroom.^[9]
From 1972 until a divorce in 1992, he was married to Czech actress and former Playboy cover girl^[11] Olga Schoberová, though neither spoke the other's language in their first few years together. Calley adopted her daughter Sabrina, who became a set costumer.^[12]
When he left Warner Brothers in the early 1980s, citing an unhappy marriage and burn-out after involvement in the production of 120 films, Calley settled into life as a virtual hermit in his 35-room house on Fisher's Island in Long Island Sound.^[9] Later in the 1990s, after marrying Sandra Cooke Lean, the widow of famed film director Sir David Lean^[9], the couple moved to Washington, CT. [See Discussion] In 1995, he married actress Meg Tilly; they divorced in 2002.^[13]
John Calley's best friend, director/producer Mike Nichols, with whom he collaborated on The Remains of the Day, as well as on Catch-22, Postcards from the Edge, The Birdcage and Closer, said this after Calley's death from a long-term, undisclosed illness^[14]: "John was unique. As a friend he was always there and always funny. He made life a joy for those he loved. As a studio head he was unfailingly supportive and didn't try to do the filmmaker's job. When he believed in someone he trusted and supported him and when very rarely he had a suggestion it was usually a lifesaver. In fact that's what he was: a lifesaver." ^[8]
To see more of who died in 2011 click here

Walter Bonatti, Italian mountain climber, died he was 81.

Walter Bonatti  was an Italian mountain climber. He is noted for a solo climb of a new route on the south-west pillar of the Aiguille du Dru in August 1955 and the first solo winter ascent of the Matterhorn north face in 1965.


(22 June 1930 – Rome, 13 September 2011)

Life and career

Bonatti on Gasherbrum IV summit, 1958

Bonatti was born in Bergamo. Famed for his climbing panache, he pioneered little known and technically difficult climbs in the Alps, Himalayas and Patagonia. At the age of 21, Bonatti in 1951 made the first ascent of the Grand Capucin, an extraordinary red granite pinnacle in the Mont Blanc massif, from 20 to 23 July. This was the climb that brought him to public notice. Aged 18, he had made the fourth ascent of the formidable North Face of the Grandes Jorasses with very poor equipment over a period of two days. Among his notable climbs were a solo climb of a new route on the south-west pillar of the Aiguille du Dru in August 1955,^[1] the first ever ascent of Gasherbrum IV in 1958^[2] and the first solo winter ascent of the Matterhorn north face in 1965. Bonatti was awarded the French Legion d'Honneur for saving the lives of two fellow-climbers in a disaster in the Alps. He authored a number of books about climbing and mountaineering. Bonatti died of pancreatic cancer^[3] in Rome on 13 September 2011 at the age of 81.^[4]

K2 controversy

Bonatti was at the center of a climbing controversy about the first ascent of K2 by Lino Lacedelli and Achille Compagnoni. Along with Hunza climber Amir Mahdi, he carried oxygen cylinders to Lacedelli and Compagnoni at Camp IX for the summit attempt. Bonatti was later accused by Compagnoni of using some of the oxygen, causing the climbers to run out of oxygen on summit day. Using this supplemental oxygen would have been impossible for Bonatti, as he had neither mask nor regulator. Bonatti would cite two summit photos to support his response that Compagnoni had lied about running out of oxygen in route to the summit. Although Bonatti's account of the bivouac is supported by Lacedelli in K2: The Price of Conquest (2004), Lacedelli contends that the oxygen had in fact run out. However, he attributes this not to Bonatti's alleged use of the oxygen, but to the physical exertion of the climb causing the summit climbers to use more oxygen than expected.^{[citation needed]}
Another aspect of the controversy was the Bonatti-Mahdi forced bivouac of July 30, 1954. Compagnoni's decision to place the final camp (IX) at a higher location than previously agreed caused the problem. When Bonatti and Mahdi climbed up to deliver oxygen to Compagnoni and Lacedelli for their summit attempt, Mahdi's condition had deteriorated. Unable to descend with Mahdi, Bonatti needed the shelter of Camp IX's tent. The tent was placed high up, over a dangerous traverse to the left - not at the agreed location. Unable to traverse safely to the tent, Bonatti and Mahdi endured a forced bivouac in the open at 8100 meters; it cost Mahdi his fingers and toes. Compagnoni gave the reasonable explanation that his decision to move the tent was to avoid an overhanging serac.^{[citation needed]}
However, it is argued that he also had an ulterior motive: to avoid Walter Bonatti. Bonatti was in the best physical condition of all the climbers and the natural choice to make the summit attempt. If he had joined the summit team, he would likely have done so without the use of supplemental oxygen. If he had succeeded, any summit by Compagnoni would have been eclipsed. Although the Bonatti-Mahdi forced bivouac was not anticipated, Compagnoni intended to discourage Bonatti from reaching the tent. At 6:10 pm the next evening, Compagnoni and Lino Lacedelli reached the summit of K2, using the supplemental oxygen Bonatti and Mahdi had brought them. Ardito Desio, in his final report, mentioned the forced bivouac only in passing. Mahdi's frostbite was an embarrassment to the expedition. The Italian government provided Mahdi with a small pension for his contribution and sacrifice on the first ascent of K2. Bonatti never reconciled with Compagnoni, owing to Compagnoni's allegedly false accusation that Bonatti used the oxygen intended for the summit attempt. He wanted to climb K2 "solo, alpine style, and without oxygen".^[5] He might well have succeeded. Two decades later, Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler astonished the mountaineering world by climbing Mount Everest without bottled oxygen.^{[citation needed]}

Mountaineering achievements

• The north face of the Grandes Jorasses (1949)
• The east face of Grand Capucin (1951)
• The north faces of Tre Cime di Lavaredo in winter (1953)
• The southwest pillar of the Aiguille du Dru (The Bonatti pillar) (1955)
• Grand Pilier d'Angle (with Tito Gobbi) (1957)
• Gasherbrum IV: First Ever Ascent (1958)
• The Red Pillar of Brouillard (1959)
• Rondoy North - Patagonia (1961)
• The north face of the Grandes Jorasses in winter (1963)
• The north face of the Matterhorn: solo and in winter (1965)

Books

The Mountaineering Books of Walter Bonatti

• Le Mie Montagne (My Mountains), Walter Bonatti, Bologna: Zanichelli, 1961
• I Giorni Grandi (The Great Days), Walter Bonatti, Verona: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 1971
• Magia del Monte Bianco (Magic of Mont Blanc), Walter Bonatti, Como: Massimo Baldini Editore, 1984
• Processo al K2 (Trial on K2), Walter Bonatti, Como: Massimo Baldini Editore, 1985
• La Mia Patagonia (My Patagonia), Walter Bonatti, Como: Massimo Baldini Editore, 1986
• Un Modo di Essere (A way of Living), Walter Bonatti, Milan: dall'Oglio Editore, 1989
• K2-Storia di un Caso (K2 - The Story of a Court Case), Walter Bonatti, Bergamo: Ferrari Editrice, 1995
• Montagne di Una Vita (Mountains of a Life), Walter Bonatti, Milan: Baldini & Castoldi, 1995
• K2-Storia di un Caso (K2 - The Story of a Court Case), Walter Bonatti, 2d ed. Milan: Baldini & Castoldi, 1996
• In terre lontane, Walter Bonatti, Baldini & Castoldi, Milano, 1998 [1st ed 1997]
• The Mountains of my Life, Walter Bonatti, Modern Library, 2001. ISBN 0-375-75640-X
• K2. La verità. 1954-2004, Walter Bonatti, 2005, Baldini Castoldi Dalai editore. ISBN 88-8490-845-0.
• K2. Lies and Treachery, Robert Marshall, 2009, Carreg Ltd. UK. ISBN 978-0-9538631-7-4.

Other

• On the Heights. Hart-Davis, 1964. ISBN B0000CMDRK
• Magic of Mont Blanc. Gollancz, 1985. ISBN 0-575-03560-9
• K2 (Italian). Baldini e Castoldi, 1998. ISBN 88-8089-072-7

To see more of who died in 2011 click here

Wade Mainer, American bluegrass musician, died at heart failure he was 104.

Wade Mainer  was an American singer and banjoist died at heart failure he was 104..

(April 21, 1907 – September 12, 2011)

With his band, the Sons of the Mountaineers, he is credited with bridging the gap between old-time mountain music and Bluegrass and is sometimes called the "Grandfather of Bluegrass." In addition, he innovated a two-finger banjo fingerpicking style, which was a precursor to modern three-finger bluegrass styles.
Originally from North Carolina, Mainer's main influences came from the mountain music of his family. In a career that began in 1934 and spanned almost six decades, Mainer transitioned from being a member of his brother's band into the founder of his own ensemble, the Sons of the Mountaineers, with whom he performed until 1953, when he became more deeply involved with his Christianity and left the music industry. After working at a General Motors factory and attending gospel revivals, Mainer was convinced that he should restart his career as a Christian gospel musician and began to tour with his wife in this capacity. He continued to release albums until 1993.

Personal life

Mainer was born near Weaverville, North Carolina, on a mountain farm in Buncombe County on April 21, 1907.^[2] His family was poor during his childhood and they lived in a log cabin in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Mainer credited his father who was, in Mainer's words, "a good singer – real stout voice", as of one of his influences. During his career as a musical artist, Mainer would perform many of the old songs that he had heard from his father.^[3]
Mainer grew up listening to traditional mountain music and was largely influenced by his brother-in-law Roscoe Banks.^[2] He first learned to play the banjo at square dances, where he would pick up instruments left by performers and practice on them.^[4] After moving to Concord, North Carolina and working in a series of jobs at cotton mills, he became a part of his brother J.E.'s band, known as J. E. Mainer's Mountaineers. His entry into the band in 1934 marked the beginning of a nearly six-decade career in music.^[2] J.E. played the fiddle while Wade performed on the banjo for the string band, and they played at fiddlers' conventions and other gatherings.^[3]
Mainer married Julia Brown in 1937, shortly after forming his own band. Brown was a singer and guitarist popularly know at the time as Hillbilly Lilly. She had performed from 1935 until 1937 at WSJS Radio in Winston Salem. Brown is considered to be a pioneering female musical artist and later joined Mainer during his performances.^[4]

Musical career

Mainer's first recordings came in 1934 and are compiled on Ragged But Right: 30's Country Bands. Mainer performed with The Mountaineers on tracks such as Maple on the Hill, Seven and a Half and Johnson's Old Grey Mule. Also included on the compilation are Mainer's later collaboration Short Life and It's Trouble with Zeke Morris, his solo effort Riding on That Train 45 and a sample song Mitchell Blues from his band the Sons of the Mountaineers.^[5] Throughout his career, he was noted for his unique and innovative two-finger banjo fingerpicking style, which some view as a precursor to three finger bluegrass banjo styles.^[2] Mainer took jobs at local radio stations to increase the visibility of his relative's ensemble, recording classics such as Take Me in the Lifeboat. During this time, he appeared on many regional stations including WBT in Charlotte, WPTF in Raleigh, WNOX in Knoxville and WPAQ in Mount Airy.^[4]
Mainer performed in a series of live radio shows with The Mountaineers, sponsored by Crazy Water Crystals laxatives. In 1934, J.W. Fincher, the head of the company, observed their popularity at the first gig, the Crazy Water Crystal Barn Dance, a radio program out of Charlotte. Under the name J. E. Mainer's Crazy Mountaineers, they toured the American South on live radio shows and recorded fourteen songs for Bluebird Records. Maple on the Hill, which according to the National Endowment for the Arts was their biggest hit, had originally been composed in the 1890s by Gussie L. Davis.^[3]
Mainer was in his brother J.E.'s band for two years, until he left for more traditional work, which at the time was far more profitable than his musical career. Making only five dollars a week under sponsorship, Mainer found that he could earn up to three times as much working at a yarn mill, which he described as being "gold" for the era.^[4] After leaving his brother's group in 1936, he began to perform duet work with Zeke Morris, who was a fellow band mate from The Mountaineers. After a time working on this project, Mainer left to form the short-lived "Smilin' Rangers" which later became "Sons of the Pioneers". Zeke Morris then got together with his brother Wiley to form The Morris Brothers.^[2]

Sons of the Mountaineers

Mainer named this new band Sons of the Mountaineers. Its initial lineup included Jay Hugh Hall and Clyde Moody as guitarists with Steve Ledford as a fiddler. Among the musicians who would join the group later were Jack and Curly Shelton, Tiny Dodson, Red Rector and Fred Smith. The band got its start performing on the radio and recording songs for Bluebird Records and their first hit, entitled "Sparkling Blue Eyes" was recorded in 1939.^[2] From 1935 through 1941, Mainer recorded over 165 songs for the record label RCA Victor in various lineups, ranking him among one of the most prolifically recorded country music artists of that period.^[3]
The Sons of the Mountaineers briefly stopped playing during World War II because Mainer could not afford to squander the valuable gasoline required for the journey to the radio stations.^[2] One notable exception, however, came in 1942, when they were invited to the White House by Eleanor Roosevelt.^[6] There in Washington D.C., they played several tunes, including "Down in the Willow Garden", a song personally requested by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.^[4] During this time, they also appeared in a version of The Chisholm Trail in New York. At wars' end, the band was reorganized and once again began to play at stations across North Carolina. Recordings at this time were sporadic, due to the declining popularity of the genre. In 1953, after having renewed his commitment to Christianity, Mainer left the group and exited the industry for a time.^[2][7]

Later life

In 1953, Mainer and his wife settled in Flint, Michigan, where he found work at a General Motors factory. Although renouncing both the music industry and his trademark instrument, the banjo, he and Julia did continue to sing at gospel revival meetings. In the early 1960s, Molly O'Day convinced him that he could use the banjo in gospel recordings, which spurred a series of religiously-theme banjo albums beginning in 1961. He also began to record and tour with his wife.^[2]
Mainer retired from General Motors in 1973.^[8] Mainer has been credited with bridging the gap between old-time mountain music and Bluegrass and musicians such as Bill Monroe, Ralph Stanley and Doc Watson have all cited Mainer as a source of influence. He has also been called the "Grandfather of Bluegrass."^[4] His influence was not limited to the United States. Pete Smith, of the British newspaper The Advertiser, in a report for Mainer's 100th birthday, cited Mainer as "one of the most influential figures in the development of modern bluegrass," noting his picking style and his efforts in bringing bluegrass closer to the mainstream. In addition, Smith also credits him for making the banjo, an instrument previously described as "satanic," acceptable for spiritually-themed music.^[9] Mainer continued to live with his wife in Flint, where he celebrated his centenary in 2007 and performed at a concert for his 101st birthday in 2008.^[6][10] Mainer died of congestive heart failure on September 12, 2011. He was 104.

Awards and honours

In 1987, president Ronald Reagan bestowed upon him a National Heritage Fellowship for his contributions to American music.^[2] In 1996 he received the Michigan Heritage Award and the Michigan Country Music Association and Services' Lifetime Achievement Award. In 1998 both he and his wife were inducted into the Michigan Country Music Hall of Fame, while Mainer received North Carolina’s Surry Arts Council Lifetime Achievement.^[4]

Original discography

Wade Mainer/Zeke Morris

Matrix	Title	Record #	Recording date
99133	"Come Back To Your Dobie Shack"	Bluebird 6551	February 14, 1936
99134	"Just As the Sun Went Down"	Bluebird 6383	February 14, 1936
99135	"What Would You Give In Exchange"	Bluebird 8073	February 14, 1936
99136	"Bring Me a Leaf From the Sea"	Bluebird 6347	February 14, 1936
99137	"Brown Eyes"	Bluebird 6347	February 14, 1936
99138	"Maple On the Hill - Part 2"	Bluebird 6293	February 15, 1936
99139	"Going To Georgia"	Bluebird 6423	February 15, 1936
99140	"Nobody's Darling But Mine"	Bluebird 6423	February 15, 1936
99141	"Mother Came to Get Her Boy Back From Jail"	Bluebird 6383	February 15, 1936
99142	"Where the Red, Red Roses Grow"	Bluebird 6293	February 15, 1936
102612	"My Cradle Days"	Bluebird 6489	June 15, 1936
102613	"Gathering Flowers From the Hillside"	Bluebird 6489	June 15, 1936
102614	"My Mother Is Waiting"	Bluebird 6551	June 15, 1936
102615	"If I Could Hear My Mother Pray Again"	Bluebird 6460	June 15, 1936
102616	"Nobody's Darling On Earth"	Bluebird 6460	June 15, 1936
102617	"Shake Hands With Your Mother"	Bluebird 6596	June 15, 1936
2530	"They Said My Lord Was A Devil"	Bluebird 6653	October 12, 1936
2531	"Won't Somebody Pal With Me"	Bluebird 6704	October 12, 1936
2532	"Hop Along Peter"	Bluebird 6752	October 12, 1936
2533	"Just One Way To the Pearly Gates"	Bluebird 6784	October 12, 1936
2534	"Dear Daddy, You're Gone	Bluebird 6752	October 12, 1936
2535	"Been Foolin' Me, Baby"	Bluebird 6704	October 12, 1936
2536	"I'll Be a Friend of Jesus"	Bluebird 6784	October 12, 1936
2537	"Cowboy's Pony In Heaven"	Bluebird 6653	October 12, 1936
7051	"Little Birdie"	Bluebird 6840	February 16, 1937
7052	"I've Always Been a Rambler"	Bluebird 6890	February 16, 1937
7053	"I'm Starting Life A New With You"	Bluebird 6840	February 16, 1937
7054	"Little Rosebuds"	Bluebird 6993	February 16, 1937
7055	"Train Carry My Gal Back Home"	Bluebird 6890	February 16, 1937
7056	"In the Land Beyond the Blue"	Bluebird 6936	February 16, 1937
7057	"A Change All Around"	Bluebird 6993	February 16, 1937
7058	"Short Life and It's Trouble"	Bluebird 6936	February 16, 1937
11812	"The Dying Boy's Prayer"	Bluebird 7165	August 2, 1937
11813	"Free Again"	Bluebird 7114	August 2, 1937
11814	"Answer To Two Little Rosebuds"	Bluebird 7114	August 2, 1937
11815	"I'm Not Turning Backward"	Bluebird 7165	August 2, 1937
11820	"Riding On That Train 45"	Bluebird 7298	August 2, 1937
11821	"Little Maggie"	Bluebird 7201	August 2, 1937
11822	"Little Pal"	Bluebird 7201	August 2, 1937
11823	"Down In the Willow"	Bluebird 7298/Victor 27497	August 2, 1937

Wade Mainer's Smilin' Rangers

Matrix	Title	Record #	Recording date
11825	"Ramshackle Shack"	Bluebird 7274	August 2, 1937
11826	"Memory Lane"	Bluebird 7274	August 2, 1937
11827	"Wild Bill Jones"	Bluebird 7249	August 2, 1937
11828	"I Want To Be Loved"	Bluebird 7249	August 2, 1937
11816	"What Are You Goin' To Do Brother"	Bluebird 7384	August 3, 1937
11817	"Companions Draw Nigh"	Bluebird 7384	August 3, 1937
11818	"Mountain Sweetheart"	Bluebird 7587	August 3, 1937
11819	"Don't Forget Me, Little Darling"	Bluebird 7587	August 3, 1937

Wade Mainer and his Sons of the Mountaineers

Matrix	Title	Record #	Recording date
18763	"Lonely Tomb"	Bluebird 7424	January 27, 1938
18764	"Pale Moonlight"	Bluebird 7483	January 27, 1938
18765	"All My Friends"	Bluebird 7424	January 27, 1938
18766	"Since I Met My Mother-In-Law"	Bluebird 7742	January 27, 1938
18767	"Don't Get Too Deep In Love"	Bluebird 7483	January 27, 1938
18768	"Don't Leave Me Alone"	Bluebird 7561	January 27, 1938
18769	"I Won't Be Worried"	Bluebird 7561	January 27, 1938
18770	"Where Romance Calls"	Bluebird 7753	January 27, 1938
18771	"Another Alabama Camp Meetin'"	Bluebird 7753	January 27, 1938
18772	"Mitchell Blues"	Bluebird 7845	January 27, 1938
26981	"Father Along"	Bluebird 8023	September 26, 1938
26982	"Dear Loving Mother and Dad"	Bluebird 8152	September 26, 1938
26983	"Can't Tell About These Women"	Bluebird 7965	September 26, 1938
26984	"That Kind"	Bluebird 7861	September 26, 1938
26985	"If I Had Listened To Mother"	Bluebird 8137	September 26, 1938
26986	"She Is Spreading Her Wings For A Journey"	Bluebird 8023	September 26, 1938
26987	"The Same Old You and Me"	Bluebird 7924	September 26, 1938
26988	"Life's Evenin' Sun"	Bluebird 8007	September 26, 1938
26998	"You're Awfully Mean To Me"	Bluebird 7861	September 26, 1938
26999	"Home In the Sky"	Bluebird 8007	September 26, 1938
27700	"A Little Love"	Bluebird 7924	September 26, 1938
27701	"North Carolina Moon"	Bluebird 8628	September 26, 1938
27702	"More Good Women Gone Wrong"	Bluebird 7965	September 26, 1938
32625	"Sparkling Blue Eyes"	Bluebird 8042	February 4, 1939
32626	"We Will Miss Him"	Bluebird 8042	February 4, 1939
32627	"I Left My Home In the Mountains"	Bluebird 8091	February 4, 1939
32628	"I Met Her At A Ball One Night"	Bluebird 8091	February 4, 1939
32629	"You May Forsake Me"	Bluebird 8120	February 4, 1939
32630	"Look On and Cry"	Bluebird 8120	February 4, 1939
32631	"One Little Kiss"	Bluebird 8145	February 4, 1939
32632	"Mama, Don't Make Me Go To Bed"	Bluebird 8145	February 4, 1939
32633	"Crying Holy"	Bluebird 8203	February 4, 1939
32634	"Heaven Bells Are Ringing"	Bluebird 8203	February 4, 1939
41200	"Sparkling Blue Eyes No.2"	Bluebird 8249	August 21, 1939
41201	"The Poor Drunkard's Dream"	Bluebird 8273	August 21, 1939
41202	"Were You There"	Bluebird 8273	August 21, 1939
41203	"The Gospel Cannon Ball"	Bluebird 8249	August 21, 1939
41204	"The Great and Final Judgement"	Bluebird 8288	August 21, 1939
41205	"What a Wonderful Savior Is He"	Bluebird 8288	August 21, 1939
41206	"Why Not Make Heaven Your Home"	Bluebird 8340	August 21, 1939
41207	"Mansions In the Sky"	Bluebird 8340	August 21, 1939
41208	"Not a Word of That Be Said"	Bluebird 8359	August 21, 1939
41209	"Drifting Through an Unfriendly World"	Bluebird 8359	August 21, 1939
71014	"Shake My Mother's Hands For Me"	Bluebird 8848	September 29, 1941
71015	"Anywhere Is Home"	Bluebird 8965	September 29, 1941
71016	"I Can Tell You the Time"	Bluebird 8965	September 29, 1941
71017	"He Gave His Life"	Bluebird 8887	September 29, 1941
71018	"Ramblin' Boy	Bluebird 8990	September 29, 1941
71019	"The Precious Jewel"	Bluebird 8887	September 29, 1941
71020	"Old Ruben"	Bluebird 8990	September 29, 1941
71021	"Precious Memories"	Bluebird 8848	September 29, 1941

Other discography

Studio albums

• 1961: Soulful Sacred Songs
• 1971: Sacred Songs of Mother and Home
• 1973: The Songs of Wade Mainer
• 1976: From the Maple to the Hill
• 1980: Old Time Songs
• 1984: Old Time Banjo Tunes
• 1987: In the Land of Melody
• 1989: How Sweet to Walk
• 1990: String Band Music
• 1993: Old Time Gospel Favorites
• 1993: Carolina Mule^[7]

To see more of who died in 2011 click here

Ralph Lomma, American mini golf entrepreneur, died he was 87.

Ralph John Lomma is often credited, along with his brother, Al, with popularizing miniature golf in the mid 1950s through their design and manufacture of now famous obstacles such as castles, clown heads and windmills died he was 87..^[2][3] Lomma Enterprises, which Ralph Lomma founded, is still in business today.

(March 13, 1924 – September 12, 2011)

History

In 1959, he engineered the development of Elk Mountain, Pennsylvania into a ski resort and in 1961, Lomma founded the Village of Four Seasons, Pennsylvania. Lomma Enterprises is the world's largest supplier for the pint-size sport, with courses in all 50 states and five continents. Lomma claimed that one course was built in a federal penitentiary and another aboard an aircraft carrier, nearly 6,000 miniature golf courses in all.
In the 1980s, Lomma was appointed by Ronald Reagan to the Coast Guard Commission and sat on the board of directors of Allied Artists film company, at that time involved with the production of The Wild Geese, starring Richard Harris, and Cabaret starring Liza Minnelli.
To see more of who died in 2011 click here

Mohammed Ghani Hikmat, Iraqi sculptor, died from kidney failure he was 82.

Mohammad Ghani Hikmat,   was an Iraqi sculptor and artist credited with creating some of Baghdad's highest profile sculptures and monuments died from kidney failure he was 82..

(1929 – September 12, 2011)

His best known works include the Victory Arch and two statues of Queen Scheherazade and King Shahryar, located on Aby Nuwas Street.^[1] Hikmat also spearheaded the recovery of art looted from the National Museum of Iraq in the aftermath of the 2003 invasion of Iraq and fall of Saddam Hussein.^[1]
Hikmut was born in 1929 in Baghdad's Kadumiya neighborhood.^[1] He graduated from the Fine Arts Institute in Baghdad in 1953, before completing his studies in 1957 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, Italy.^[1] Hikmut joined the Baghdad Group for Modern Art in 1953 and the Al-Zawiya Group (meaning The Corner) in 1967.
Mohammed Ghani Hikmat died in Amman, Jordan, where he was receiving medical treatment, on September 12, 2011, at the age of 82.^[1]
To see more of who died in 2011 click here