Joan Rivers didn’t get the perfect funeral she wrote about … because the famous singer she wanted to perform was too sick to make her wish come true.
In her 2012 book, Joan described her perfect funeral as “a huge showbiz affair with lights, cameras, action.” She wrote, “I don’t want some rabbi rambling on; I want Meryl Streep crying, in five different accents. I don’t want a eulogy; I want Bobby Vinton to pick up my head and sing ‘Mr. Lonely.'”
But TMZ has learned 79-year-old Vinton — who was friends with Joan for years — was just getting over a bout with pneumonia. Bobby’s rep told us Vinton was bummed he wasn’t be able to perform his 1964 hit, but was going to try to make it up in some way.
Meryl, it’s all on you now …
http://www.tmz.com/2014/09/05/bobby-vinton-joan-rivers-funeral-singer-sick-mr-lonely/
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Other Notable Musicians’ Deaths…
September 2014
9: Firoza Begum, 84, Bangladeshi singer; Antonín Tuckapský, 86, Czech-born British composer.
8: Magda Olivero, 104, Italian operatic soprano; Gerald Wilson, 96, American jazz musician, pneumonia.
7: Kwon Ri-se, 23, South Korean singer (Ladies’ Code), injuries sustained in a traffic collision.
5: Simone Battle, 25, American singer (G.R.L.), suicide by hanging; Kerrie Biddell, 67, Australian jazz and session singer, stroke (death reported on this date).
4: Gustavo Cerati, 55, Argentine singer and musician (Soda Stereo), respiratory arrest; Wlodzimierz Koton’ski, 89, Polish composer; Hopeton Lewis, 66, Jamaican singer, kidney failure; Mizchif, 38, Zimbabwean rapper; Habib Wali Mohammad, 93, Pakistani ghazal singer.
3: Go Eun-bi, 21, South Korean singer (Ladies’ Code), traffic collision; Aarno Raninen, 70, Finnish actor, composer and musician, house fire.
2: Cayo Sila Godoy, 94, Paraguayan classical guitarist; Nicky da B, 24, American bounce musician; Antonis Vardis, 66, Greek composer and singer.
From http://www.wikipedia.com