Annette Funicello - Dead at age 70

[skimple]

04.08.13 – Actress Annette Funicello, long-time Disney and Beach Party star, passed away on Monday, April 8, at Mercy Southwest Hospital in Bakersfield, California, at the age of 70.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/08/showbiz/annette-funicello-obit/index.html

 

[etrigan420]

The "A" and the "E" will no longer bend around the sides...

🙁

RIP.

 

[skimple]

 

[DrPizza]

If I'm not mistaken, our very own Harvey is listed as the writer on one of her 45's.

RIP


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[highland145]

If I'm not mistaken, our very own Harvey is listed as the writer on one of her 45's.

RIP


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1965?? I was 1. Harvey's our own Beach Boy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WP2exZurfc

 

[JulesMaximus]

1965?? I was 1. Harvey's our own Beach Boy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WP2exZurfc

I wasn't born yet.

 

[highland145]

I wasn't born yet.

Get off my lawn....😛

 

[classy]

One of the true hollywood beauties, RIP 🙁

 

[preslove]

Dick Clark wasn't always an old man???!!!

 

[Harvey]

If I'm not mistaken, our very own Harvey is listed as the writer on one of her 45's.

RIP


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I grew up watching Annette on the Mickey Mouse Club and her movies. RIP, and thanks for all the great memories.

Here's a link to the song on youtube. They mistakenly titled it, "My Guy," which is the title for another hit of the period by Mary Wells so it's a bit difficult to find on Google without including more search terms.

The other writer on the label, Joe Saraceno, was a producer at Liberty Records. The song, based on the old highschool cheer, was his idea, and he asked me to write the song. I originally wrote it with yet another artist, Leslie Gore, in mind, but he had the connection to Annette's people. I got a special kick out of some of the posted comments noting that it sounded like a Leslie Gore tune.

 

[aaksheytalwar]

Rip. how did she die?

 

[Harvey]

Rip. how did she die?

Per the story at the OP's link:

Funicello, who was 70, "died peacefully from complications due to multiple sclerosis, a disease she battled for over 25 years," the Disney statement said.

🙁

 

[Markbnj]

Harvey, I was five years old when you were sitting in Joe Saraceno's office 🙂. A few years later I saw Beach Blanket Bingo on the afternoon movie while home sick one day, and it was Annette Funicello that made me realize girls might be a lot more interesting than I had suspected up to that point.

Side note, back in the 80's I delivered medical supplies weekly to Frankie Avalon's mom. Her house was full of his memorabilia, and one of the first things she asked me was whether I remembered him. I told her I could remember Annette a lot better, and she got a laugh out of it.

 

[MrPickins]

Roger Ebert and Annette Funicello, who will be the third?

Edit: Nevermind, it was Margaret Thatcher
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2312526

 

[dennilfloss]

RIP Annette. 🙁