Died On This Date (March 18, 2010) Fess Parker / Actor; Made Several Cowboy Records
themusicsover Fess Parker
August 16, 1924 – March 18, 2010
Fess Parker was a popular actor who is best remembered for playing Davy Crockett in a Disney television series, and later, Daniel Boone in another series. Parker flirted with a music career by releasing a handful of folk albums during the ’60s. They included Daniel Boone, Davy Crockett, Abe Lincoln and Other Great American Heroes and Fess Parker Sings. Later in life, Parker devoted his time to running the award-winning Fess Parker Family Winery. Fess Parker was 85 when he died of natural causes on March 18, 2010.
Jean Ferrat was a French singer songwriter who first achieved success throughout the French-speaking world during the 1960s. He has been called “The French Bob Dylan” due to his thought-provoking lyrics. Throughout his long career, he released nearly two dozen albums with his 1963 release, Nuit et Brouillard, earning him a coveted Grand Prix du Disque. His songs have been recorded by many French entertainers as well. Jean Ferrat passed away on March 13, 2010 following a lengthy illness. He was 79.
Lesley Duncan was a moderately successful English folk singer during the late ’60s and ’70s. After working on her own during the early part of her career, Duncan hooked up with Elton John in 1970 to sing a duet of her “Love Song” which appeared on his Tumbleweed Connection album. It remains one of just a handful of songs John recorded that was penned by someone outside of his and Bernie Taupin’s creative circle. Duncan went on to provide backing vocals on such albums as John’s Madman Across The Water, Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon and the Alan Parsons Project’s Eve. During the ’70s, she lent her vocal talents to recordings by 
George McKelvey was a comic, actor and folk singer who achieved success during the ’60s and ’70s after he switched from music to stand-up comedy. As a folk singer, he did have a moderate hit with the timely and satirical “My Radiation Baby, My Teenage Fallout Queen” of 1964. After switching to comedy, he became a popular support act for the likes of the Righteous Brothers, Tower of Power and Glenn Yarbrough. George McKelvey, 72, died of a stroke on March 6, 2009.
John Cephas was a blues guitarist and singer who, with his musical partner and harmonica player, Phil Wiggins helped keep the Piedmont style of blues alive well into the 21st century. Cephas began playing with Wiggins after meeting each other at a folk festival in the mid ’70s. Over the course of their career together, they released over a dozen albums for such respected blues labels and Flying Fish and Alligator. 1987’s Dog Days Of August earned them a 