#RIP #OTD in 1823 English author and a pioneer of Gothic fiction (Romance of the Forest, The Mysteries of Udolpho, The Italian) Ann Radcliffe died in London, aged 58. Chapel of Ease at St George’s, Hanover Square, Mayfair, London
On this day in 1959, New Orleans blues guitarist Guitar Slim died of pneumonia in New York City, at the age of 32. Born Eddie Jones on December 10, 1926 in Greenwood, Mississippi. Perhaps best known for the million-selling song “The Things That I Used to Do”, produced by Johnny Vincent for Specialty Records. It is listed in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s 500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll. Slim had a major impact on rock and roll and experimented with distorted overtones on the electric guitar a full decade before Jimi Hendrix. Both Hendrix and Stevie Ray Vaughan recorded cover versions of “The Things That I Used to Do”.
The Final Footprint
He is interred in Moses, Allen Chapel, Calvary Cemeteries, Thibodaux, Louisiana.
#RIP #OTD in 1999 actor (Emergency!), jazz pianist, singer, songwriter (“Route 66″) Bobby Troup died of a heart attack in Sherman Oaks, California aged 80. (Photo with wife Julie London). Forest Lawn Memorial Park Hollywood Hills
On this day in 2000, singer and songwriter, founder of the blues-rock band Foghat, Lonesome Dave, Dave Peverett, died in Orlando, Florida at the age of 56 from cancer. Born on 16 April 1943 in Dulwich, South East London, UK. The band’s biggest hit was “Slow Ride” which Peverett wrote. Their notable albums inlcude; “Foghat” (1972), “Energized” (1974), “Fool for the City” (1975), “Nighshift” (1976), “Foghat Live” (1977) and “Stone Blue” (1978). Foghat has always been one of my favorite bands.
The Final Footprint – Peverett was cremated.
On this day in 2001, writer, film star and singer-songwriter, the third wife of singing cowboy Roy Rogers, Dale Evans died of congestive heart failure at the age of 88 in Apple Valley, California. Born Lucille Wood Smith in Uvalde, Texas on 31 October 1912. She took the name Dale Evans in the early 1930s to promote her singing career. Evans wrote one of the classic cowboy songs, “Happy Trails”. Evans married four times; Thomas Frederick Fox (1927–1929 divorce), August Wayne Johns (1929–1935 divorce), R. Dale Butts (1937–1946 divorce) and Roy Rogers (1947–1998 his death). My heroes have always been cowboys and cowgirls. 
The Final Footprint – She was interred at Sunset Hills Memorial Park in Apple Valley, next to Roy. Happy trails, Dale and Roy. For her contribution to radio, Evans has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6638 Hollywood Blvd. She received a second star at 1737 Vine St. for her contribution to the television industry. In 1976, she was inducted into the Western Performers Hall of Fame at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
#RIP #OTD in 2009 jazz singer and pianist (“Moody’s Mood for Love”, “The Riviera”) Blossom Dearie died at her 10 Sheridan Square apartment in Greenwich Village, aged 84. Cremated remains interred in National Memorial Park, West Falls Church, Virginia.
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