Do you guys remember the group Damian Dame... I remember when the female (deah) died but i had no idea the guy died 2 yrs later on the same day

anyway here's a link

http://panachereport.com/...bsDied.htm

i don't know...i remember many of these folks getting press when they passed away...that whole site reads like a sixth grade report...can't give it much credibility.

sosgemini said:

yeah...your right... I was just little shock to hear that the other member of
that one group in particular (Damian Dame) died

Thank you for posting that list. There's celebs on there that I didn't even know were gone. I didn't know the great, late actor Paul Winfield was gay. He is sorely missed. They also forgot to include Donny Hathaway.

SPYZFAN1 said:

i wash shocked at how popular his passing away thread was here on the org...he was really loved by us here.

Thank u so much 4 this link, I was shocked 2 read about some of the deaths listed

I also never knew about alot of those deaths. Half of the names there died form AIDS complications.

Hold UP!!! Sweet Daddy Williams has been dead since 91?!?!?! Are you sure?

Gwen Guthrie dead since 99.

This is a damn shame.

Like...



...Barbara McNair (3/4/1934 - 2/4/2007)



tA

Tribal Disorder

http://www.soundclick.com...dID=182431

theAudience said:

And Ruth Brown who passed away late last year.

LittleBLUECorvette said:

I posted about Ruth Brown.

I remember McNair when she made a cameo @ The Jeffersons' sitcom, as George Jefferson's ex-girlfriend who came back to kill him out of spite.

Anybody remember that episode?

LOL @ me going to another subject though

Harlepolis said:

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I remember that episode. It was really good and I don't think they have ever shown it on TVLAND.

laurarichardson said:

It was from one of those finale 80's seasons

wow i didnt know that dude who played michael jackson on that jacksons movie died. i always wondered what happened to him? that dude been dead since 1993.
[Edited 3/19/07 17:48pm]

ladygirl99 said:

yeah...somebody recently created a thread about the dood (sic) a month or so ago...thats how i found out about it.

most of these folks werent even famous though...im sure you could make a list just as long (if not longer) of obscure non black celebs who passed on.

SPYZFAN1 said:

how could you not know he was gay?


anyway, I loved this guy alone for "City Confidential" on A&E where they profiled some small town or suburb and simultaneously told the story of some grizly murder that took place there. The sense of Shakesperian drama he added to it with his narration was fantastic

Tessa said:

Marc Vivien Foe.

I didn't know that Sweet Daddy from Good Times passed away. And I also didn't know about the keyboardist from Surface. How sad.

ThePunisher said:

Teddy Wilson died? He was funny in "Thats my momma".

Tessa said:

To be honest, I always thought the narrator sounded like he had been drinking.

BlaqueKnight said:

His kids lost my respect when they paraded his body @ the Apollo, he couldn't even get a dignified funeral.

BlaqueKnight said:

It's very unfortunate that James didn't get what he deserved. My belief is that there are many people in America who are much more interested in the lives (and deaths) of useless celebrities such as ANS, Britney Spears and Paris H. just to name a few. If Americans cared more for the people who really matter, I believe James would've gotten more "fan fare", but too many choose to follow the antics of ridiculous so-called stars. Some may look at this as racism and that may very well be, but it's also the fact that this is what Americans care more about and it's really very sad.
[Edited 3/20/07 6:18am]

I knew Gwen gutherie had died, as well as the guy whoplayed MJ in the Jacksons series, but I didn't know that Paul Winfield had died, however I am not surprise he was gay.

BlaqueKnight said:

Tru dat.....

whatsgoingon said:

what??? i didn't know that.

BlaqueKnight said:

you hit the nail right on the head. I was just telling somebody this exact thing a few weeks ago.

missfee said:

I didn't know that he lived an openly gay life with his partner, but something about him always made me think that he might be.... I get the same feeling about the guy who plays Will Smith's uncle on the Fresh Prince of belair and the father on that show with Erkel....
[Edited 3/20/07 7:50am]

Valorie Jones from The Jones Girls died in 2001.