Dead Musicians / Music Stars - Complete List - Part 1 (1953-1979)
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- A complete video list of musicians that have died...in chronological order (although some names are added ahead of time in the groups).
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A tribute for all kinds of music lovers...Rock, Pop, Jazz, Blues, Doo-Wop, R&B, Country, Folk etc...
Who are your favorite bands or artists from Part 1?
132 Deaths Documented/Music History/Educational
If you don't know who they are...look them up (google them)...fascinating stories.
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Could everyone just stop saying that Marilyn Monroe was murdered...maybe she was...I even think she was...but it is not the official cause of death so I didn't write it. C'mon already...I've watched 3 documentary's saying Courtney Love killed Kurt Cobain, but it is not the official cause of death....I am not going with theories here....stop it already!!! I am just deleting your comments...
Sorry you had to go through a lot of unnecessary debates.
HappyPsychoBunny1
When will Part 16 come out? I hope some day
I thought everyone knew it was the KENNEDIES !
@@armandoaldana8543 The Kennedys...and murder is not the official cause of death.
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I feel so grateful to be given the opportunity to listen to all the great 🌟 performances on UA-cam.💕
Im 95 years old
And i do remember these songs
It was real memories and my wife is 98 and she was a big fan of the orlons
R.I.P to all of them
and R.I.P yo all the great memories
You posted your comment one year ago. I hope the two of you are still with us!!! Best wishes and peaceful days for you.
Wow
i have watched all the episodes from one to 16.....cant wait for part 17 to come out....GREAT HARD WORK TO COMPILE THIS
Thank you for all the hard work and effort it took to put this together. It's amazing.
I'm nearly 74 years old and have played guitar since age 12. I loved all these wonderful people. God Bless them all.
Well, this stopped me in my tracks,I was just surfing the net and this appeared so 1/2 hour later Im going onto part 2.What a fantastic job you have done,it is very much appreciated
This is amazing and very enlightening…although so sad, so many died so young and so many overdoses, plane crashes…makes you so sad to watch their gifts gone so soon.such an incredible labor of love! Thank you!
I really enjoyed this. It made me feel something beautiful. Also, I thought what a shame. I wish I could have been like them. Gone but not forgotten, instead of forgotten but not Gone.
What a fantastic compilation!! Thank you for your hard work! 🙏🙏
Well Apple Music just took another huge bite of my account. I’d forgotten about some of these and the memories just flooded back with each clip. So I went shopping. Thank you.
There's 15 more parts (at the moment) that may put you into Bankruptcy...hehe :)
I am watching this with tears streaming down my face. May they all rest in peace.
This is . . Class act. Well done!
Perfect balance of samples, length of samples, song choices, excellent points during the songs.
The facts are just what is needed presented clearly, and are readable.
No annoying unnecessary details to powerful through.
Clips are long enough to get a good idea of the singer, but not tiresomely long to lose interest.
Most interesting and wholly enjoyable.
Simply professional
Thank you
Thank you so much :)
I wish I'd said that!!! LOL 😆!! Unfortunately, I didn't say it, but I agree with it 100%! Thank you for making this incredible video ❤. Lots of love from Amanda in Melbourne, Australia ❤ xox ❤ 💖 💕 ♥ 💙 💗 ❤ 💖 💕 ♥ 💙 💗 ❤ 💖 💕 ♥
Cool!!! How many iconic and talented artists....Robert Johnson, Freddie King and all the others.
Sweet and magnetic Marilyn Monroe, she is truly timeless!
Thanks for bringing back these musical memories - Bunny Gibson - American Bandstand Dancer
Thank you for putting a face to the artists we lost.
Nicely put together! Thank you for this.
Mind blowing, fantastic I ran the whole gammet of emotions watching this. You do a fantastic job with these videos.
This was excellent!
Aside from the obvious work that went into this compilation...
I really appreciated that our host somehow found live footage of nearly every musician in this video -- scenes I have never before seen.
And on top of that, he used the sound from that footage (unlike nearly every other uploader that replaces the real sound with the studio version of the song).
Great job!
By the way, I would love to watch most of those videos, in their entirety. But they are either not uploaded anywhere that I could find them, or the few that are uploaded have their audio erased and replaced with the studio recording -- making it appear as if the artists are lip syncing, when they are not lip syncing.
I would appreciate if anyone could point me to where I could see these videos, the way they were meant to be seen and meant to be heard.
Thank you.
I agree
Well said!
Absolutely well said 👏 👍 👌 ❤❤❤
So many died at age 27, and so many from plane crashes, overdoses and suicide. This is truly heartbreaking!!
There's a 27 club for a reason
I was a teenager when the pace of death began to accelerate in the late '60s, primarily because of drug OD. Very sad.
They all are great artists. I'm 70 and can remember (almost) all of them. I'll never forget OTIS.
Good good work, Sir.
@happypsychobunny1 thank you for taking the time to do this series of videos. I appreciate all of the research! There are other videos out there but they are short, don’t have the artist’s demographics, and don’t have a video of them playing. TL;DR version: other YT vids have names and date of death, but your videos are much more complete. There is nothing else like this on UA-cam. Thank you for the time you spent doing these volumes!!
Thank you so much :)
OMG! That was so beautiful and touching; it made me cry. Thank you! Love this song! 💗
2022, Such horrific losses, after all these years it still brings tears to my eyes.
So many young Stars who have made their mark and lived so long.... These songs have been entrenched and ingrained into our minds.
So many great musicians gone too soon. A lot of them died because of problems with alcohol and drugs. Notice that a lot of them are in the "27" club. Thank you for the informative lists.RIP 🙏
Great collection. Geez Louise. Unreal. Still shakin my head. Whew.
These stars might be gone, but their music and songs will live on forever.
It's absolutely heart breaking, that we lost all of these talented singers and entertainers. I think alot of them, were under too much pressure, and couldn't handle what they were trying to accomplish. May Each One Of Them Rest In Peace. 💖Amen 🌈💓
Excellent compilation. Thanks a lot 🌟🎼🎶🎵💕
I'm saddened to find out so many talented musician died by drug overdose, shot, ambushed, & suicide. May they all Rest in Peace.
So many talented musicians rip all. great videos by the way
Thank you...so many great artists!
the great work that must have gone to put together this video together is unimaginable. truly any man good at his work will stand before kings. cant wait till part 17
Very well done! All that talent and some left us way to soon!
Wow. Man. I thought I knew them. Man what a surprise! Excellent presentation and when and how they died. Most we really young
I can't get over how YOUNG they practically all were....
Wonderfully done.. thank you 👏🏾
Thank you for sharing this, all of those lived out too soon.
You did a great job. I don't know why there are barely any comments.
Thanks so much :) I was thinking the same thing myself....
Maybe because most of us are too stunned by the bad news of so many untimely deaths.
Everyday is a wonderful day ❣️❣️❣️ to watch past legends, this clip bought back so many beautiful memories. Didn't know so many passed away so young and the sad different ways they Left 😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣 Us. So much beautiful 💖💖💖😍😍😍😍😍😍💖💖 music
What we were shown is what defined entertainment in its golden age. Every one of them were/are identified as actors/actresses, most of them performing diverse roles during their careers, but all of them were accomplished in diverse entertaining disciplines, singing, dancing, etc …Totally enjoyable.much more entertaining than the singular effort of removal of one’s clothes.
Nice job thanks for posting, many memories.
Thank you for all the hard work! I’ve heard of many of these; some of them I had not.
The “Fine and Mellow” clip you have for Billie Holliday is from a show called The Sound of Jazz, which was aired on CBS in the 1950’s. I think it is here on UA-cam.
Thank you. It was very interesting. Must have taken some time. I appreciate it. Thank uou again.
Thanks a lot for this awesome work!
Thank You!!!!!! TEARS ARE RUNNING!!! THANK YOU!!! A.😪
wow thank you so much thumbs up you rock.
Adding their music makes it personal. Thanks
It does...and recalls memories :)
Thanks for putting this series together .I hope utube doesn’t make u take it down because of copyright like the other utuber who had exactly same series and videos up
I was born in the 50s and grew up in the 60s and 70s boy did I ever get the best of music today’s music really sucks that’s why I listen to my 60s and 70s and a bit of the 80s. All of these bring back a lot of memories, but I’ll say one thing a lot of them just didn’t care or take care of their selves they died from drug overdose is lung cancer, pulmonary problems, why because they didn’t take care of themselves that’s too bad we lost a lot of great people. I enjoy these videos. Thank you very much.👍🏼👍🏼☮️🎸😎
Huge talents and most gone so young. We are missing so much of what could have been.
Super singers gone too yong most of them ....good work doing this list thanks
awesome compilation - and heart touching O,O
We've lost too many fabulously talented artists.......& today's just don't even compare.....auto-tune doesn't even help
So many died prematurely. I remember them all. Now in my 88th year, my REME workshop number in Hong Kong. Bap sat bap, in Cantonese. So much good music, ain’t it great to have UA-cam ?
Absolutely stunning.
Greatest 🎶 music
Ever made real powerful songs that changed many
Lives forever
Nicely put together.
I get a few tears in my eyes, occasionally, silly, I know, when I read these days of the death of a sports player,
who I really admired, especially someone I actually saw live at a stadium. Even if they weren't nationally well known. I can understand people feeling the same about musicians/singers.
Rest in peace sister Rosetta tharpe 1915 - 1973 aged 58
Fly high Rosetta 😢🕊️
QUE BONITO VIDEO EL QUE HAS ELABORADO, SOBRE TODO MUY BIEN EXPLICADO CON LA RESEÑA Y SEÑALANDO EN LAS IMAGENES A LOS CANTANTES QUE FALLECIERON. ES UN HOMENAJE A TODOS AQUELLOS ARTISTAS QUE PARTIERON.
Many great performers here...Some I never heard of....Darla from the Little Rascals (at 26:36 ) hit me the most because I loved her as a kid watching her on that show....It's pretty safe to say that most professional musicians do not lead long healthy lives....Just think how awful sleeping in hotel rooms and eating restaurant slop for months at a time would be....
They’re all remembered for the gifts they had❤️
This is absolutely brilliant!!! What a labor of love!! This list is so complete, you could actually use it to draw some sociological conclusions. For example, compare the number of Black artists who died as a result of violence compared to White artists. I'm going to have to listen to this a few more times. Excellent song choice, excellent clip samples. Just fantastic.
There definitely was a lot of violence towards black artists, but you can't really compare them, as some of the deaths weren't because of race. I mean, some of the people who killed them were black themselves.
Actually if you look closely in general most of them, independently of their skin color, pass away from overdose, car crashes, plane crashes and cancer😳, most of them of lung cancer probably because regular cigarettes… in those times smoke was the norm…
@@xqp5503 a lot of them smoked cigarettes because it made their voice deeper and more rich,, etc.
What is this obsession with race? Does it make a difference if all the white musicians died from overdoses and crashes and black musicians have a mix of murder, poor healthcare and crashes? What would that lesson be exactly? I don't understand the point of this.
@@metalmonkey6262 - your name explains it all
Seems like most of these greats died very young or I'm their prime of their careers. Some were things that we usually don't die from today. Others were alot of tragic accidents. And some were victims of crime and brutally killed. It was a miracle that they even got to have these moments of Fame and left behind such awesome music and songs and performances on videotape! America sure has a strong history of talented musicians!
0:14 | Robert Johnson | Cross Road Blues (1936)
0:34 | Glenn Miller (Orchestra) | Moonlight Serenade (1939) (w/ Glenn Miller Orchestra)
0:53 | Hank Williams | Hey Good Lookin' (1951)
1:10 | Big Bopper | Chantilly Lace (1958)
1:22 | Niki Sullivan (guitarist), Buddy Holly, Joe Mauldin (bassist) | That'll Be The Day (w/ The Crickets) (1957)
1:36 | Ritchie Valens | Come On, Let's Go (1958) (video footage from Oh, My Head)
1:49 | Billie Holiday | Fine and Mellow (1939)
2:09 | Eddie Cochran | Summertime Blues (1958)
2:29 | Marilyn Monroe | I Wanna Be Loved By You (1959)
2:43 | Patsy Cline | I Fall To Pieces (1961)
2:59 | Jim Reeves | Put Your Sweet Lips A Little Closer To The Phone (He'll Have To Go) (1959)
3:15 | Johnny Burnette | You're Sixteen (1960)
3:27 | Sam Cooke | You Send Me (1957)
3:45 | Nat King Cole | Unforgettable (1951)
4:12 | Bobby Fuller, Jim Reese (top left) (Bobby Fuller Four) | I Fought The Law (w/ Bobby Fuller Four) (1966)
4:24 | The Andrews Sisters | Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy (1941)
4:38 | John Coltrane | So What (w/ Miles Davis) (1959)
4:49 | Woody Guthrie | This Land Is Your Land (1945)
5:08 | Otis Redding | Try A Little Tenderness (w/ Booker T. & the M.G’s) (1966)
5:22 | Frankie Lymon, Joe Negroni (left), Sherman Gaines (2nd left) (Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers) | Why Do Fools Fall In Love (w/ Frankie Lymon and The Teenagers) (1956)
5:36 | Little Willie John | Fever (1956)
5:51 | Red Foley | Tennessee Border (1960)
6:06 | Lefty Baker/Nigel Pickering/Malcolm Hale/Ken Hodges (Spanky and our Gang) | Like To Get To Know You (w/ Spanky and our Gang) (1968)
6:29 | Judy Garland | Somewhere Over The Rainbow (1939)
6:54 | Brian Jones, Charlie Watts (right, drums) (The Rolling Stones) | Paint It, Black (w/ The Rolling Stones) (1966)
7:12 | Roy Hamilton | The Secret Path Of Love (1958)
7:33 | Mary Ann Ganser, Marge Ganser (The Shangri-Las) | Leader Of The Pack (w/ The Shangri-Las) (1964)
7:46 | Tammi Terrell | Ain't No Mountain High Enough (w/ Marvin Gaye) (1967)
8:03 | Earl Grant | Last Night (w/ Earl Grant Trio) (1959)
8:18 | Bob Hite/Alan Wilson (Canned Heat) | On The Road Again (w/ Canned Heat) (1968)
8:43 | Jimi Hendrix | Purple Haze (w/ The Jimi Hendrix Experience) (1967)
9:09 | Janis Joplin | Piece Of My Heart (1968)
9:33 | Arlester "Dyke" Christian (Dyke and the Blazers) | You Are My Sunshine (w/ Dyke and the Blazers) (1968)
9:50 | Jim Morrison (The Doors) | Light My Fire (w/ The Doors) (1967)
10:14 | Louis Armstrong | What A Wonderful World (1967)
10:34 | Gene Vincent | Be-Bop-A-Lula (1956)
10:52 | Duane Allman/Berry Oakley (The Allman Brothers) | Whipping Post (w/ The Allman Brothers) (1969/1971)
11:10 | Big Maybelle | Ramblin' Blues (1958)
11:30 | George Malone/Warren Ryanes/Charles Howard Patrick (the 5th guy) Frankie Smith/John Ryanes (The Monotones) | Book of Love (1958)
11:45 | some members of The Drifters | Save The Last Dance For Me (1960) (I'll spare you the names because by the time the song finally released in August they had an entirely different lineup from the people seen in the video...)
12:05 | Brian Cole (The Association) | Never My Love (w/ The Association) (1967)
12:19 | Danny Whitten (Crazy Horse) | I Don't Want To Talk About It (1971)
12:41 | Ron "Pigpen" McKernan (Grateful Dead) | Easy Wind (w/ Grateful Dead) (1970)
12:59 | Mike Furber (Mike Furber and the Bowery Boys) | You Stole My Love (w/ Mike Furber and the Bowery Boys) (1966)
13:17 | Melvin Franklin/Paul Williams/David Ruffin/Eddie Kendricks (back left) | My Girl (w/ The Temptations) (1964)
13:34 | Gram Parsons | Hot Burrito #1 (w/ The Flying Burrito Brothers) (1969)
13:51 | Jim Croce/Maury Muehleisen (Jim Croce) | Bad, Bad, Leroy Brown (1973)
14:10 | Sister Rosetta Tharpe | Up Above My Head (1948)
14:24 | Dave Alexander/Zeke Zettner (The Stooges) | Not Right (1969) (w/ The Stooges)
14:44 | Bobby Darin | Splish Splash (1958)
15:03 | The "5" Royales (Johnny Tanner, Otto Jeffies, Lowman Pauling, Eugene Tanner, Obadiah Carter) | Dedicated to the One I Love (1959)
15:28 | Bobby Bloom | Montego Bay (1970)
15:41 | Curtis, Cecil, Bobby and Harry Womack (The Valentinos) | Teenage Dream (19??
@Roccimo You don't need to update these... other musicians that pass will be in other parts. Just concentrate on the musicians that I wrote about, but more so , The Songs.
I feel sad my be in the other side i will see them again, I'm 74 and I love that all music
Excellent Job. TY
I appreciate the list but here's one from Dec 1954 - in some cases Johnny Ace was the first RNR tragedy #RIP ua-cam.com/video/rahTKCeBZ2M/v-deo.html
How about Johnny Ace?
A list of great artists. I specially had to search for the Miami Showband, what a terrible way to die :(
i love the memories this brings back.
Fantastic collection
Great video. Thanks.
Watched nearly the whole thing, and the main difference with them and the average Joe or Jane is that the cause of death was frequently drug overdoses, suicides, and getting shot to death, not counting plane crashes because the odds were much higher for them. Man this was a walk thru Sad Park...makes us come to terms with our mortality.
Great Video!! But sooo very sad RIP to all xx
Im 73. This was remarkable to take in.
Deeply saddening that most deaths on this list were self-inflicted and happened at very young ages.
And a few more members of the 27 club
Yeah, drugs and alcohol did them in. This is not a healthy medium.
28 years old
Thank you for this
this was just ao wonderful....it made me laugh and cry at the same time. thank you
Great video mate
Thanks :)
Woww..I didn't realize how many talented people took their lives by suicide or over dose... Or left by way of a violent ending..... So sad ..by today's standards they would have been considered musical icons by their peers and fans... Ty for posting and rest in peace to all those mentioned...their musical contributions shall live on untill the end of time itself.......
If you live hard and fast, you die hard and fast. It's a lesson for us.
Remember the marque scroll across the bottom of the TV:
Elvis has died...
Thought had sad my Mom was gonna be. Her and my Pops had just seen him in Mobile, AL
I remember the day Elvis died too...I was about 9 yrs old and I had so many of his records... he was my favourite...I remember crying with my Mom
What a waste of life and talent...beautiful people ...drugs will keep you moving but going nowhere.... Thanks for their memories.
Wow ... the number of artists here who lived as long as age 60 were probably less than fifteen. I gave this video a thumb's-up for being so informative, for all the research & coming up with all these video clips ... but it is one one of the saddest videos I've seen in a while. I loved this music.
According to my recollection, Bobby Bloom 15:29 didn't shoot himself -- I believe he was murdered (over a woman), and the murderer was never found nor convicted. Forgive me if I was misinformed. Either way, so tragic. Montego Bay was such a joyful song.
I thought he accidentally shot himself while cleaning his gun
We are so beautiful and so vulnerable to be human to play music 🎶🕯️✌️
Both a lovely and sad trip down memory lane
Most of these Musicians were and are the best that ever will be, fact not opinion
what scares me the most, I'm old enough to remember when most of these deaths happen
Sad most died so young in their 20tys and lots of plane ✈️ crashes never reaching their 30tys 🙏rest in peace ☮️
Rip Elvis.
@definitely GTS RIP 🙏 XX
Wow so many amazing talented people crossed over so young,
May they all RIP ❤️🙏😇
What mellow voices!
God bless you Loretta. xoxo
Thank you. Many suicides and ODs --- tragic.
So many olds song i rembered yo listen in this era
What an awful destiny for most of the singers, if they were still alive, most would be more than 70 80 years old nowadays
Bobby Fuller died on july 18th 1966, not july 16th. Great tribute to these people. 💖💓💜🌟Thank you.
Wonderful and Heartbreaking
Man you walked through my entire generation. Man the sixties and seventies were the best….
I was lucky enough to have a mother not only grew up on rock and roll but new great music and these are classics and are from great artists from when I wasn't even born. Thank you Mom you and your twin sister my Aunt Jane were the best music aficionado's that I knew at the time and I know Cousin Johnny Venable thanks you too try to bring him to the Allen Freed Show in the best city in the world, NYC, Manhattan actually.
Beautiful
If you are generally concerned that I missed an artist you like, fine, but if you just saw someone on a list and never heard of them before and just want to say I missed someone...let it go.
Excellent presentation. It would be impossible to include all who deserve to be included, but worth consideration: The Platters, Phil Phillips, Link Wray, Duane Eddy, The Coasters (“Young Blood”).
Many of those are in my other videos...there are 14 parts so far...chronological. This one is only to 1979
Duane Eddy, at 84, is still alive.
Three observations: 1) It’s apparent that this industry does not keep its artists out of the communities from whence they came i.e., stabbing 2). Age 24 appears to be the critical age. 3) Avoid charter airplanes.
ABSOLUTELY STRIKING