JOHNNY OATES 1946-2004
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Johnny Lane Oates, who spent parts of 11 seasons in major-league baseball as a player and parts of another 11 as a manager, died Friday after a long fight with glioblastoma multiforme, an aggressive brain tumor.
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Ahmet Ertegun, the music magnate who founded Atlantic Records and shaped the careers of John Coltrane, Ray Charles, the Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin and many others, died yesterday in Manhattan. He was 83.
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THE legendary country music guitarist Hank Garland, who recorded with Elvis Presley, Patsy Cline and Roy Orbison, has died in Florida, US media reported today.
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As teenagers in northern Minnesota in the late '50s, Ric Kangas and Bobby Zimmerman would spend hours playing guitar and singing. During one of those sessions, Zimmerman asked his friend to record it.
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Johnny Oates, who managed the Texas Rangers to their first three postseason appearances, died early Friday. He was 58. Oates was diagnosed with a brain tumor three years ago. His death was confirmed by John Blake, a former Rangers spokesman who worked for the organization when Oates coached in the '90s.
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Anita O'Day, whose sassy renditions of "Honeysuckle Rose," "Sweet Georgia Brown" and other song standards that made her one of the most respected jazz vocalists of the 1940s and '50s, has died. She was 87.
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Johnny Oates managed the Texas Rangers to three division titles in the 1990's, the only postseason appearances in the franchise's history.
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Arthur Lee, the eccentric singer-guitarist and driving force   behind the 1960s' cult psychedelic rock band Love, has died. He was 61.
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For Guitarist Steve Cropper, the day  the music died was not February 3, 1959, when Buddy Holly died.  It was an icy Dec 10, 1967, when the plane carrying a  26-year-old Otis Redding went down in a Wisconsin lake.
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Johnny Oates, who managed the Texas Rangers to three division titles in the 1990's, the only postseason appearances in the franchise's history, died on Friday.
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Johnny Ramone, guitarist and co-founder of the seminal punk band "The Ramones," has died. He was 55.
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Johnny Oates, the only manager to lead the Texas Rangers to the playoffs, died Friday at the age of 58. Oates was diagnosed with a brain tumor three years ago and doctors at the
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LOS ANGELES  - Anita O'Day, the last of the great jazz singers spawned by the swing era, died Thursday of cardiac arrest in Los Angeles. She was 87.
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By Keith Lawrence, Messenger-Inquirer, Owensboro, Ky.  Feb. 3--Wade Mainer brought the house down when he performed at the River of Music Party's Legends Night in 2005.   He was 98 then.
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John Peel, veteran radio presenter and DJ, has died suddenly on holiday in South America. John and his wife Sheila were on a working holiday in the city of Cuzco, Peru when he suffered a massive heart attack.
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Buck O'Neil, the goodwill ambassador for the Negro Leagues who fell one vote shy of the Hall of Fame, died Friday night at the age of 94. O'Neil became the first black scout and first black coach in the major leagues, both for the Chicago Cubs.
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Late punk guitarist Johnny Ramone is being immortalized with a bronze statue at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. Ramone, co-founder and guitarist of The Ramones, was 55 when he died of prostate cancer on Sept. 15, 2004, at his Los Angeles home.