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Jerry Samuels, who as “Napoleon XIV” wrote and recorded one of pop music’s most unusual hit singles, 1966’s “They’re Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!,” died today (March 10, 2023). Samuels, 84, had operated a Philadelphia-based talent agency for the past four decades. News of his passing was shared by his wife, Bobbie Samuels, on her Facebook page. “My friends,” she wrote, “Jerry died early this morning. He was my rock and the greatest love of my life. He taught me to be strong.”

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He'll be happy to see those nice young men in their clean white coats.
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Olympic high jump champion Dick Fosbury, 76, from a recurrence of lymphoma. His "Fosbury flop" technique revolutionized the high jump.

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Iron Chef Chinese Chen Kenichi, 67 years old, on March 11 due to interstitial pneumonia.

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/202303 ... 01000.html (Japanese)
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WooWho? wrote: Mon Mar 13, 2023 11:25 pm Iron Chef Chinese Chen Kenichi, 67 years old, on March 11 due to interstitial pneumonia.

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/202303 ... 01000.html (Japanese)
And from that same website, Literature Nobel laureate Kenzaburo Oe, on March 3.

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/202303 ... 61000.html
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Posted passings with number of archive hits:

Mickey Kuhn - 0
Melinda Dillon - 0
Pervez Musharraf - 7
Harry Whittington - 2
Burt Bacharach - 20+
Raquel Welch - 19
Tim McCarver - 0
Richard Belzer - 4
Bob Richards - 1
Wayne Shorter - 1
Tom Sizemore - 0
Topol - 5
Robert Blake - 10
Bud Grant - 1
Jerry Samuels - 1
Dick Fosbury - 3
Chen Kenichi - 1
Kenzaburo Oe - 2

McCarver surprising to me as he was a well-known long time player as well as an announcer. Thought he could have made it just from being Steve Carlton's personal catcher late in his career. Melinda Dillon and Tom Sizemore very well known actors but Sizemore just didn't have a really good way to crack the archive. Thought Dillon might have from "A Christmas Story".

All in all an excellent list. Thanks to the one poster so far including archive links.
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add author John Jakes, age 90. At least 23 J! hits
https://deadline.com/2023/03/john-jakes ... 235299200/
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Baseball player Joe Pepitone at 82.
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Rolly Crump, who designed for Disney parks, Knott's Berry Farm, the '64 World's Fair, etc.
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Bobby Caldwell, 71, whose record label put only his silhouette on an early album cover so the public might not realize he was white.
https://www.tmz.com/2023/03/15/bobby-ca ... -for-love/
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Lots of prominent celebrity deaths this year and we're not even done with March.
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Pat Schroeder, former Congresswoman from Colorado.
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#8749, aired 2022-11-24 CHARACTER ACTORS $800: Lance Reddick played a cop on "The Wire" & on this Amazon Prime drama as Chief Irvin Irving

Lance died at age, 60. The first show I thought of for him was, Fringe and not Bosch as wanted above.
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MarkBarrett wrote: Fri Mar 17, 2023 4:50 pm #8749, aired 2022-11-24 CHARACTER ACTORS $800: Lance Reddick played a cop on "The Wire" & on this Amazon Prime drama as Chief Irvin Irving

Lance died at age, 60. The first show I thought of for him was, Fringe and not Bosch as wanted above.
Timing is interesting as John Wick 4 releases in 7 days.

Sadly, first thing I did upon reading the news was to see if he had any hits in the archive. :roll:
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Bamaman wrote: Sat Mar 11, 2023 5:23 pm Jerry Samuels, who as “Napoleon XIV” wrote and recorded one of pop music’s most unusual hit singles, 1966’s “They’re Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!,” died today (March 10, 2023).

https://j-archive.com/showgame.php?game_id=7574
His one hit in the Archive was only just entered last December. I missed my chance to welcome him to the J-Canon. :(

I'm pretty sure that Audio Daily Double is where I first heard the song, back in the day.
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Willis Reed, Hall of Fame basketball center for the New York Knicks at 80. I used to go to MSG to see him play.
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alietr wrote: Tue Mar 21, 2023 3:33 pm Willis Reed, Hall of Fame basketball center for the New York Knicks at 80. I used to go to MSG to see him play.
And where do you go to see him play now? :mrgreen:
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Gordon Moore, Intel co-founder with eponymous "Law", at 94.

https://www.intc.com/news-events/press- ... dies-at-94

#8505, aired 2021-11-05 COMPUTER HISTORY $1600: In 1965 this American engineer first enunciated his famed "Law", predicting computing power would double every year
#4995, aired 2006-05-05 A VISIT TO INTEL CORP. $1000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the Intel Corporation in Santa Clara, CA.) This Intel cofounder's law predicted that chips would double computing power every 1 or 2 years; Intel made that a reality with million-fold jumps in performance
#4851, aired 2005-10-17 SPEED $600: In 1965 Gordon Moore famously predicted that these would double in processing speed every 18 months
#3182, aired 1998-06-02 BUSINESS FOUNDERS $600: In 1968 Robert Noyce & Gordon Moore founded this microchip company & soon brought Andrew Grove on board
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Robert K S wrote: Fri Mar 24, 2023 8:58 pm Gordon Moore, Intel co-founder with eponymous "Law", at 94.

https://www.intc.com/news-events/press- ... dies-at-94

#8505, aired 2021-11-05 COMPUTER HISTORY $1600: In 1965 this American engineer first enunciated his famed "Law", predicting computing power would double every year
#4995, aired 2006-05-05 A VISIT TO INTEL CORP. $1000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the Intel Corporation in Santa Clara, CA.) This Intel cofounder's law predicted that chips would double computing power every 1 or 2 years; Intel made that a reality with million-fold jumps in performance
#4851, aired 2005-10-17 SPEED $600: In 1965 Gordon Moore famously predicted that these would double in processing speed every 18 months
#3182, aired 1998-06-02 BUSINESS FOUNDERS $600: In 1968 Robert Noyce & Gordon Moore founded this microchip company & soon brought Andrew Grove on board
You are missing this one: https://j-archive.com/showgame.php?game_id=5835
2017-11-17 Eponyms $1200: A 1965 observation that computer capacity keeps on doubling is called this Intel co-founder's "law"
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Brian ‘Brizz’ Gillis, founding member of boy band LFO, at age 47.

LFO are best known for their 1999 hit "Summer Girls", with its famous line, "I like girls that wear Abercrombie and Fitch". The group has only been asked about on Jeopardy once though, and it was a 2000 College Tournament clue about their song "Girl on TV", with its Jennifer Love Hewitt-starring video. At least as far as the regular show goes, "Summer Girls" is not J-Canon.

For trivia purposes, it's worth knowing that Brizz is the third member of the group to pass away. Rich Cronin died in 2010, Devon Lima in 2018. Only founding-member Brad Fischetti is still alive.

If Wikipedia is to be believed, the letters LFO stood for Lyte Funky Ones.

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