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That's a shame, liked his music.
A moment of silence for the passing of an era -- the last significant bandleader of the prewar era has died at the age of 100. Orrin Tucker led a dance band, not a swing band, so he hasn't gotten a lot of attention from latter-day fans, but his records with vocalist Wee Bonnie Baker for Columbia were among the most popular on the market at the turn of the forties. He continued to lead a band well into the 1990s, retiring only when forced to do so by declining health.
Orrin Tucker
Not one, but two great 50s/60s TV comedy writers:
I Love Lucy: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/22/a...-davis-writer-for-i-love-lucy-dies-at-90.html
Bewitched: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/22/a...ks-writer-of-bewitched-pilot-dies-at-100.html
Mr. Saks’s other credits include the screenplay for the film comedy “Walk, Don’t Run” (1966), adapted from a story by Robert Russell and Frank Ross. The movie was Cary Grant’s last picture: in it, he plays matchmaker to a young couple (Samantha Eggar and Jim Hutton) amid the 1964 Tokyo Olympics.