Caspar Babypants
Caspar Babypants is the stage name of children's music artist Chris Ballew, who is also widely known as the singer of The Presidents of the United States of America.
Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?)
"Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?)
" (often called simply "Lover Man") is a 1941 popular song written by Jimmy Davis, Roger (
"Ram") Ramirez, and James Sherman.
It is particularly associated with Billie Holiday, for whom it was written, and her version was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1989.
Holiday's version reached No. 5 on the R&B chart and No. 16 on pop in 1945.
In July 1946, Charlie Parker recorded a rendition of "Lover Man" while he was intoxicated.
Dial Records producer Ross Russell had to hold him up to the microphone during the recording.
Barbra Streisand recorded a version for her album Simply Streisand in 1967, her version peaked #29 at Billboard Adult Contemporary chart.
O Valencia!
" O Valencia!" is the fifth single by the indie rock band
The Decemberists, and the first released from their fourth studio album," The Crane Wife".
The music was written by The Decemberists and the lyrics by Colin Meloy.
It tells a story of two star- crossed lovers.
The singer falls in love with a person who belongs to an opposing gang.
At the end of the song, the singer's lover jumps in to defend the singer, who is confronting his lover's brother( the singer's" sworn enemy") and is killed by the bullet intended for the singer.
Lamman Rucker
Lamman Rucker( born October 6, 1971) is an American actor.
Rucker began his career on the daytime soap operas" As the World Turns" and" All My Children", before roles in Tyler Perry's films
" Why Did I Get Married?
Why Did I Get Married Too?", and" Meet the Browns", and its television adaptation.
In 2016, he began starring as Jacob Greenleaf in the Oprah Winfrey Network drama series," Greenleaf".
Billy Milano
Billy Milano is a Bronx- born heavy metal musician now based in Austin, Texas.
He is the singer and- occasionally- guitarist and bassist of crossover thrash band M.O.D., and he was also the singer of its predecessor, Stormtroopers of Death.
He was also the singer of United Forces, which also featured his Stormtroopers of Death bandmate Dan Lilker.
Bernie Bonvoisin
Bernard Bonvoisin, known as Bernie Bonvoisin( born 9 July 1956 in Nanterre, Hauts- de- Seine), is a French hard rock singer and film director.
He is best known for having been the singer of Trust.
He was one of the best friends of Bon Scott the singer of AC/ DC and together they recorded the song" Ride On" which was one of the last songs by Bon Scott.
Richard T. Jones
Richard Timothy Jones( born January 16, 1972) is an American actor.
Jones is best known for his portrayals of Laveinio in the dramatic film" The Wood"( 1999) and Mike of the dramatic films" Why Did I Get Married?"( 2007) and" Why Did I Get Married Too?"( 2010).
He is also well known for his role as Bruce Van Exel, court services officer on the CBS television series" Judging Amy" that aired from 1999 to 2005.
Ram Ramirez
Roger" Ram" Ramirez( September 15, 1913 – 11 January 1994) was an American jazz pianist and composer.
He was a co-writer of the song" Lover Man( Oh, Where Can You Be?)"
Billie Holiday
Eleanora Fagan (April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959), better known as Billie Holiday, was an African American jazz singer with a career spanning nearly thirty years.
Nicknamed "Lady Day" by her friend and music partner Lester Young, Holiday had a seminal influence on jazz music and pop singing.
Her vocal style, strongly inspired by jazz instrumentalists, pioneered a new way of manipulating phrasing and tempo.
She was known for her vocal delivery and improvisational skills.
After a turbulent childhood, Holiday began singing in nightclubs in Harlem, where she was heard by the producer John Hammond, who commended her voice.
She signed a recording contract with Brunswick in 1935.
Collaborations with Teddy Wilson yielded the hit "What a Little Moonlight Can Do", which became a jazz standard.
Throughout the 1930s and 1940s, Holiday had mainstream success on labels such as Columbia and Decca.
By the late 1940s, however, she was beset with legal troubles and drug abuse.
After a short prison sentence, she performed at a sold-out concert at Carnegie Hall, but her reputation deteriorated because of her drug and alcohol problems.
She was a successful concert performer throughout the 1950s with two further sold-out shows at Carnegie Hall.
Due to personal struggles and an altered voice, her final recordings were met with mixed reaction, but were mild commercial successes.
Her final album, "Lady in Satin", was released in 1958.
Holiday died of cirrhosis on July 17, 1959.
She won four Grammy Awards, all of them posthumously, for Best Historical Album.
She was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1973.
"Lady Sings the Blues", a film about her life, starring Diana Ross, was released in 1972.
She is the primary character in the play (later made into a film) "
Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill"
; the role was originated by Reenie Upchurch in 1986, and was played by Audra McDonald on Broadway and in the film.
In 2017 Holiday was inducted into the National Rhythm & Blues Hall of Fame.
Jimmy Davis (songwriter)
James Edward Davis( 1915 – 1997) was an American songwriter, singer, pianist and actor.
He co-wrote the song" Lover Man( Oh, Where Can You Be?)".
Davis was born in Madison, Georgia.
He and his family moved to Gary, Illinois, and then to Englewood, New Jersey, where he completed his high school education.
Being musically gifted, he was accepted into the Juilliard School in New York to study piano and composition, his fees being paid by a benefactress.
In the late 1930s or early 1940s he wrote the song" Lover Man( Oh, Where Can You Be?)" with Ram Ramirez but could not initially place it, until he offered it to Billie Holiday in 1942.
Because of the 1942– 44 musicians' strike Holiday did n't record the song until October 1944, and although at first only a minor hit it soon achieved widespread success and went on to become a jazz standard, recorded by numerous artists including Linda Ronstadt, Barbra Streisand and Petula Clark.
During the early 1940s Davis struggled to make a living as a songwriter and supplemented his meagre royalties by giving piano lessons.
He was drafted in 1942, but Davis, a member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People( NAACP), refused to be enlisted into a segregated regiment and demanded either exemption or service in the nonsegregated Canadian army.
After a series of unsuccessful representations to the authorities, which drew press coverage and the support of several public figures, he decided not to report for duty and was imprisoned.
His morale and health suffered in prison, as he revealed in letters to the writer and poet Langston Hughes( with whom he would maintain a 25- year correspondence until Hughes died in 1967), and he eventually relented and joined the army.
In March 1945, Davis, then an officer attached to an army musical unit, was sent to France for six months, where he registered for a course on French language and culture open to American soldiers at the University of Paris.
He wrote to Hughes that Paris" was exactly what the doctor ordered".
Upon his return to the United States at the end of 1945 he was discharged from the army and left for Hollywood, where he joined the Actors' Laboratory Theatre, taking a course on acting.
He tried to pursue a career in acting but was offered only stereotypical racial roles, and at the end of 1947 he emigrated to France.
Davis was warmly welcomed in Paris, partly due to the fame of the song" Lover Man", and was described by the influential French critic and writer Boris Vian in" Jazz Hot" as" the youngest and most sympathetic of the American composers".
He began to style himself Jimmy" Lover Man" Davis and entered a highly creative period, writing a number of songs and placing them with major French performers, such as Yves Montand(" J'ai de la veine"), Maurice Chevalier(" Trinque, trinque[ À la tienne]"), and Joséphine Baker(" You're the Greatest Love").
His songwriting royalties were still insufficient to live on, so he began singing his own songs in solo performances, touring through France, Italy, Holland, Spain, Switzerland and other countries.
In 1957 he released an album," Jimmy" Loverman" Davis Chante Jimmy" Loverman" Davis", featuring songs all co-written by himself, backed by a quartet that included his friend and fellow expatriate Aaron Bridgers on piano and the French saxophonist Michel de Villers.
Apart from his musical work, Davis appeared in plays, including" Pas de week- end pour un espion" and" Des souris et des hommes Of Mice and Men"), and in the films" La Putain respectueuse"( 1952, uncredited)," Mélodie en sous- sol Any Number Can Win")( 1962, as Sam), and" Je t' aime moi non plus"( 1976, as Moïse).
Davis died in Paris in 1997.
After a funeral service at the American Church in Paris, his ashes were interred in a cemetery in Auvergne.

Question: Why did the performer of song Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?) die?
Answer: cirrhosis