Yes, I knew about the death of singer/musician/songwriter Neil Sedaka yesterday, but I had a lot of stuff to deal with late in the afternoon, so I decided not to post anything online about anything yesterday.
Anyway, Neil died at the age of 86, so he had a good, long life. Perhaps his most famous recording was "Breaking Up is Hard to Do." He wrote and performed not only his own hits, he also wrote songs for others:
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Sedaka's songwriting prowess extended beyond his own career. He and Greenfield wrote the perky pop tune "Love Will Keep Us Together" in 1973, which Sedaka recorded. But it was the 1975 version by Captain & Tennille that made the song a worldwide smash and karaoke favorite.
Sedaka's work also infiltrated the catalogs of Elvis Presley ("Solitaire"), Frank Sinatra ("The Hungry Years"), Tom Jones ("Puppet Man") and The Monkees ("When Love Comes Knockin' At Your Door").
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Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has been confirmed dead, now that the US, with Israel, has decided to pull bullshit in the Middle East.
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I missed this obituary of former child actress Lauren Chapin, best known for playing the youngest daughter, Kitten, on the 1950s classic sitcom Father Knows Best. She was 80 years old and passed away from cancer on February 24.
She had been an ordained minister and often appeared on religious talk shows like PTL. As a young woman, she had some substance abuse issues.
As noted in the link, she got the part on Father Knows Best because she strongly resembled one of Young's four daughters.
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Chapin’s older TV siblings were Betty “Princess” Anderson (Elinor Donahue) and James “Bud” Anderson Jr. (Billy Gray), and their mom was the level-headed homemaker Margaret Anderson (Jane Wyatt). Young played Jim Anderson, an insurance salesman.
She had brothers who were also actors.
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