Music
Orchestra leader Sammy Kaye, whose “swing and sway” music appealed to millions of ballroom dancers during the Big Band days of the late 1930s and ‘40s, has died of cancer in Ridgewood, N.J., it was reported Wednesday.
June 4, 1987
California
Frank Wynne’s touching eulogy of Kay Kyser (Letters, Aug. 2) brought a nostalgic tear to the myopic eyes of this unreconstructed big-band lover.
Aug. 29, 1985
Obituaries
Kaye Stevens, singer with Rat Pack who became an actress, dies at 79
Dec. 31, 2011
PASSINGS: Kaye Stevens
Entertainment & Arts
Sammy Timberg, 89, a composer and vaudevillian who served as straight man for his better-known comedian brother, Herman.
Aug. 29, 1992
Movies
“The Court Jester” (1956), one of the late Danny Kaye’s finest films, screens Friday at 6:30 p.m. in the County Museum of Art’s Bing Theater as part of the ongoing salute to Paramount.
Oct. 29, 1987
Sports
So Brandon Tartikoff is proud of the fact that more people watched “The Trial of the Incredible Hulk” than “War and Remembrance” (“Tartikoff: Thriving in an Unsurvivable Job” by Diane Haithman, July 2)?
July 9, 1989
Don Anthony, 85, who wrote the song “Breaking My Heart,” popularized by Perry Como.
Dec. 21, 1995
Certain comedians can make you cry.
March 8, 1987
Al Berkman, 82, producer, author, musician, arranger and vocal coach for such singers as Eddie Fisher, Vic Damone and Linda Ronstadt.
May 18, 1996