Jesus Christ, Fanny Brice, Wolfy Mozart and Humphrey Bogart, Genghis Kahn and on to H.G. Wells.
Ho Chi Men, Gunga Din, Henry Luce and John Wilkes Booth and Alexanders King and Graham Bell.
Rama Krishna, Mama Whistler, Patrice Lamumba and Russ Columbe. Karl and Chico Marx have their canoe. E.A. Poe, Henri Rousseau, ____ and Carole Jessman, Alan Freed and Buster Keaton too.
And each one there has one thing shared.
They have sweated beneath the same sun.
Looked up in wonder at the same moon.
And wept when it was all done, for being done too soon.
For being done too soon.
For being done.
Written by Neil Diamond and performed on his album, "Tap Root Manuscript."
(Sorry about the missing name, I couldn't decipher it at all.)
Here are just a few of the folks added to that particular (and inevitable) list in 1999.
They brightened our days and were certainly done too soon.
Curtis Mayfield
Harry Edison
Anita Carter
Victor Mature
Allen Funt
Katie Webster
George C. Scott
Milt Jackson
Charles Earland
Michel Petrucciani
Charles Brown
Huntz Hall
Dusty Springfield
Red Norvo
Senor Wences
Al Hirt
Shel Silverstein
Mel Torme
Stanley Kubrick
Yehudi Menuhin
Saul Steinberg
DeForest Kelley
Mario Puzo
Joseph ''Mighty Joe'' Young
Joe Williams
Jean Shepherd
Hoyt Axton
Doug Sahm
Paul Bowles
Quentin Crisp
Charlie Byrd
Madeline Kahn
Joseph Heller
by Mitch Myers
copyright 1999 New City Communications, Inc.