Born in Chicago, Illinois, Nick Noble grew up to be a singer who was responsible for a handful of pop hits during the mid-1950s. Between 1955 and 1957, Noble scored hits with “The Bible Tells Me So,” “To You My Love,” “Fallen Star,” and “Moonlight Swim.” He came back with a moderate hit, “Hello Out There,” in 1962. Noble enjoyed a brief comeback in 1978 when he had an Adult Contemporary and Country Top 40 hit with “Stay With Me.” He reportedly recorded 109 singles over his career. Nick Noble was 85 when he passed away on March 24, 2012.
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Robert Sherman was a songwriter who, along with his brother, Richard Sherman, was responsible for numerous Disney film and attraction songs that live on in the souls of countless children of all ages. Over the years, the Shermans have written songs that have appeared in such classic films as The Jungle Book, Mary Poppins, and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. “Chim-Chim Cher-ee,” “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious,” “I Wan’na Be Like You (The Monkey Song),” and “Trust In Me (The Python’s Song)” are just a few of the Sherman Brothers songs that many of us grew up with. Other credits include several of the jingles heard throughout the Disneyland, most notably, “It’s A Small World (After All).” They also wrote “You’re Sixteen” which topped the singles charts twice, first by Johnny Burnette, and then again by Ringo Starr. Over the years, the Sherman brothers shared several nominations for Academy Awards, BAFTA Awards, Grammys, and Golden Globes. They won two Oscars for their Mary Poppins contributions. Robert Sherman was 86 when he passed away on March 5, 2012.
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Davy Jones was and English actor and singer who is best remembered as the lead vocalist for the Monkees, a widely popular pop-rock group that was originally fabricated to star as a band on an American television series. The weekly comedy followed the hi-jinks of the fictional rock band as they tried to build a music career in Los Angeles. The show, which premiered in 1966, starred Jones, Micky Dolenz,Peter Tork, and Michael Nesmith as the group which was loosely based on the Beatles. The show launched actual music careers for the musicians, even though in the beginning, they contributed very little musically. Many of the program’s songs, which were showcased like music videos every week, became hits and future staples of oldies radio. They included “Daydream Believer,” “Last Train To Clarksville,” and “I Want To Be Free.” The show won two Emmys in 1967 and continued to be popular in reruns ever since. In later years, Jones recorded and toured the world with the reunited Monkees. As an actor, Jones also appeared in numerous stage productions as well as on such TV shows as The Brady Bunch, Love American Style, and My Two Dads. Davy Jones was 66 when he suffered a fatal heart attack on February 29, 2012. The Monkees co-creator, Bert Schneider passed away in December of 2011.
Dory Previn was an American singer-songwriter and lyricist who counted several Academy Award nominations to her credit. Beginning in the late ’50s, Previn, along with her then-husband and songwriting partner, Andre Previn, wrote numerous songs for such films as Pepe, Two for the Seesaw, and Valley of the Dolls. Their songs have been recorded by such music luminaries as Judy Garland, Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Bobby Darin, Dionne Warwick, and Sammy Davis, Jr., to name just a handful. After parting ways with her husband in 1969, Previn launched a successful career as a singer-songwriter. Over the next decade, she released a half-dozen albums, including 1972’s Reflections in a Mud Puddle, which Newsweek magazine named one of the best albums of the year, while the New York Times lauded it as one of the best singer-songwriters of 1972. She went on to win two Emmys for music she created for television, and wrote two autobiographies as well as a one-woman play. Dory Previn passed away on February 14, 2012. She was 86.
Whitney Houston August 9, 1963 – February 11, 2012
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Whitney Houston was an R&B singer who, by most accounts was one of the biggest female pop stars of all time. Born in Newark, New Jersey to a musical family that also included mother, Cissy Houston and cousins Dionne Warwick and Dee Dee Warwick. Her godmother was none other than Aretha Franklin. Following an early career that included fashion modeling and back-up singing for the likes of Chaka Khan, Jermaine Jackson, andLou Rawls, Houston found herself taken in by legendary hit maker, Clive Davis, who signed her to his Arista Records and released her self-titled debut in February, 1985. The album, which spawned several hit singles, went on to sell an astonishing 25 million albums worldwide. Her follow-up album, Whitney, became the first album by a female artist in history to debut at #1 on the Billboard album charts. Over the next several years, Houston released hit after hit. In 1992, she starred opposite Kevin Costner in The Bodyguard. The romantic-thriller was the 2nd highest grossing film worldwide that year, while Houston’s soundtrack went on to sell over 45 million copies thanks to such hits as “I’m Every Woman, “Run To You,” and of course, her cover of Dolly Parton’s “I Will Always Love You,” which sold over 12 million copies itself. The soundtrack reached #1 in virtually every country that does such tracking. On January 7, 1991, while the United States was locked in the Persian Gulf War, Houston performed what many consider the greatest version of the “Star Spangled Banner” that the Super Bowl has ever known. It was quickly released as a single and became the first and only time the national anthem was a massive pop hit. Houston donated her share to the American Red Cross. The following year, Houston married former New Edition member and rap star, Bobby Brown. The two had a daughter together but divorced in 2006. After several years of personal set-backs, Houston returned with a new album, I Look To You, in 2009. The album hit #1 in the US and went on to sell over 3.5 million copies worldwide. It was her first #1 album since The Bodyguard. In September of 2011, Houston announced that she was going to produce and star in a remake of the 1976 film, Sparkle. On February 11, 2012, while in Los Angeles for the Grammys, Whitney Houston was found dead in her Beverly Hilton Hotel room bathtub. Officials later ruled that she accidentally drowned as a result of a heart condition and chronic drug use. She was 48.
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Born in Chicago, Illinois, Nick Noble grew up to be a singer who was responsible for a handful of pop hits during the mid-1950s. Between 1955 and 1957, Noble scored hits with “The Bible Tells Me So,” “To You My Love,” “Fallen Star,” and “Moonlight Swim.” He came back with a moderate hit, “Hello Out There,” in 1962. Noble enjoyed a brief comeback in 1978 when he had an Adult Contemporary and Country Top 40 hit with “Stay With Me.” He reportedly recorded 109 singles over his career. Nick Noble was 85 when he passed away on March 24, 2012.
Dory Previn was an American singer-songwriter and lyricist who counted several Academy Award nominations to her credit. Beginning in the late ’50s, Previn, along with her then-husband and songwriting partner, Andre Previn, wrote numerous songs for such films as Pepe, Two for the Seesaw, and Valley of the Dolls. Their songs have been recorded by such music luminaries as 
