• Recent Obituaries - Music



  • Dee Anthony (1926 - 2009)

    Dee   Anthony

    SOUTHPORT, Conn. (Associated Press) - Dee Anthony, who began a 40-year music-managing career representing neighborhood friend Jerry Vale in the 1950s and later worked for Tony Bennett, Peter Frampton and other popular artists, died Sunday. He was 83. The Southport, Conn., resident died at Norwalk Hospital of pneumonia, said family spokesman Jay Strell. Anthony was Frampton's manager when...

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  • Vic Mizzy, 93 (1916 - 2009)

    Vic  Mizzy

    LOS ANGELES (AP) - Vic Mizzy, a songwriter who composed the catchy themes for the 1960s TV comedies "The Addams Family" and "Green Acres," has died. He was 93. Mizzy died Saturday at his home in Bel Air, his manager Jonathan Wolfson said. He said he didn't know the cause of death. He wrote songs that were recorded by Dean Martin, Doris Day, Perry Como and Billie Holiday in the '40s and ...

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  • Kazuhiko Kato (2009)

    Kazuhiko  Kato

    By SHINO YUASA (Associated Press Writer) TOKYO Police say Japanese musician Kazuhiko Kato, founder of the Sadistic Mika Band, has been found dead in a hotel room in an apparent suicide. He was 62. A police official in Nagano, northwest of Tokyo, said Sunday that hotel employees and police officers found Kato on Saturday. They found two suicide notes in his room, said the police...

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  • Al Martino, 82 (1927 - 2009)

    Al  Martino

    SPRINGFIELD, Pa. (Associated Press) Singer Al Martino, who played the Frank Sinatra-type role of Johnny Fontane in "The Godfather," died Tuesday afternoon at his childhood home. He was 82. Publicist Sandy Friedman, of the Rogers & Cowan public relations firm, confirmed Martino's death in the Philadelphia suburb of Springfield, in Delaware County, but didn't cite a cause. ...

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  • Stephen Gately, 33 (1976 - 2009)

    Stephen  Gately

    By MANUEL MIELNIEZUK, Associated Press Writer PORT D'ANDRATX, Balearic Islands Stephen Gately, a singer with the Irish boy band Boyzone who made headlines when he came out as gay a decade ago, has died while on vacation in Spain, the group said on its Web site. He was 33. Gately "tragically died" on Saturday while visiting the island of Mallorca, the band said in a brief statement....

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