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Myk
Joined: 12 Jan 2005 Posts: 184 Location: Warwick, NY
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Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 11:07 am Post subject: Gene Simmons dies RIP |
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TUPELO, Miss. (AP) — Rockabilly singer and songwriter Jumpin' Gene Simmons, who worked with Elvis Presley and had a top 20 hit in 1964 with the bouncy Haunted House, has died. He was 69.
He died Tuesday at North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo after a long illness, according to Holland-Harris Funeral Directors.
Simmons — not to be confused with the Kiss bassist with the same name — was in show business for more than 50 years, working with such names as Sam Phillips and the Bill Black Combo. More recently, he co-wrote Indian Outlaw, which became a big hit in 1994 for country superstar Tim McGraw.
But his biggest success came in 1964 with the novelty song Haunted House, which reached No. 11 on the Billboard pop chart and launched Simmons on a world tour.
Among other early gigs, he performed as an opening act for Presley in Tupelo, Presley's birthplace and Simmons' longtime hometown, as Presley's career was taking off, said his son, Cary Simmons.
After appearing in some Memphis clubs, Simmons signed with Sun Records, the legendary Memphis label formed by Phillips that launched the careers of Presley, Johnny Cash and other stars.
While he didn't have the chart success of other Sun performers, Simmons' recordings have become known to later generations through reissues. Brian Setzer did a version of Simmons' Peroxide Blonde in a Hopped Up Model Ford on his Rockabilly Riot Vol. 1: A Tribute to Sun Records.
Simmons, born in Itawamba County in 1937, spent most of his life in Northeast Mississippi although he lived for a time in Memphis. Besides his son, survivors include his mother, a sister, and two brothers. |
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voodoo
Joined: 14 Apr 2004 Posts: 79 Location: Maryland
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Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 12:55 pm Post subject: |
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Man, I was about to do the dance of joy, but I was wronged!
So, when the other Gene Simmons dies, you think he will be laid to rest in a Kiss casket? |
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Myk
Joined: 12 Jan 2005 Posts: 184 Location: Warwick, NY
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Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 1:06 pm Post subject: |
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Boo! That's not nice. What has he he ever done to you?
Yes, I believe he will. |
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Jake
Joined: 02 Mar 1999 Posts: 4963
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Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 7:01 pm Post subject: |
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[quote="Myk"]Boo! That's not nice. What has he he ever done to you?
Yes, I believe he will.[/quote]
No I bet they'll have one of those grand ceremonial funerals with beautiful women being flung into the pit with his sarcophagus. Then they'll take pictures of naked beautiful women being buried alive with him, compile the pictures with the women he's screwed while alive, and donate the money to a bank account in his name so he can continue making money even by dying. |
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