Mark Lavon "Levon" Helm (May 26, 1940 – April 19, 2012) was an American rock multi-instrumentalist and actor who achieved fame as the drummer and frequent lead and backing vocalist for The Band.
Helm was known for his deeply soulful, country-accented voice, and creative drumming style highlighted on many of the Band's recordings, such as "The Weight", "Up on Cripple Creek", "Ophelia" and "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down". His 2007 comeback album Dirt Farmer earned the Grammy Award for Best Traditional Folk Album in February 2008, and in November of that year, Rolling Stone magazine ranked him #91 in the list of The 100 Greatest Singers of All Time. In 2010, Electric Dirt, his 2009 follow-up to Dirt Farmer, won the first ever Grammy Award for Best Americana Album, an inaugural category in 2010. In 2011, his live album Ramble at the Ryman was nominated for the Grammy in the same category and won.
On April 17, 2012, his wife and daughter announced on Helm's website that he was "in the final stages of his battle with cancer" and thanked fans while requesting prayers. Two days later, Helm died at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City.
Anna Lee, MBE (born Joan Boniface Winnifrith, 2 January 1913 – 14 May 2004) was an English actress.
Lee studied at the Royal Albert Hall, then debuted with a bit part in the film His Lordship (1932). When she and her first husband, director Robert Stevenson, moved to Hollywood she became associated with John Ford, appearing in several of his films, notably How Green Was My Valley, Two Rode Together and Fort Apache. She worked for producer in the horror/thriller Bedlam (1946) and had a lead role opposite Brian Donlevy and Walter Brennan in Fritz Lang's Hangmen Also Die! (1943), a wartime thriller about the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich.
Lee made frequent appearances on television anthology series in the 1940s and 1950s, including Robert Montgomery Presents, The Ford Theatre Hour, Kraft Television Theatre, Armstrong Circle Theatre and Wagon Train.
She had a small, but memorable, role as Sister Margaretta in The Sound of Music. Sister Margaretta was a supporter of Maria in the abbey and was one of the two nuns who thwarted the Nazis by removing car engine parts, allowing the Von Trapps to escape. Lee also appeared in the 1962 classic What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? as next-door neighbour Mrs. Bates alongside Joan Crawford and Bette Davis. In 1994, she took the leading role of the feature film What Can I Do?, directed by Wheeler Winston Dixon.
Katherine Anne "Katie" Couric (born January 7, 1957) is an American journalist and author. She serves as special correspondent for ABC News, contributing to ABC World News, Nightline, 20/20, Good Morning America, This Week and primetime news specials. Starting on September 6, 2012, she will host Katie, a syndicated daytime talk show produced by Disney-ABC Domestic Television. She has anchored the CBS Evening News, reported for 60 Minutes, and hosted Today and reported for Dateline NBC. She was the first solo female anchor of a weekday evening news program on one of the three traditional USA broadcast networks. Couric's first book, The Best Advice I Ever Got: Lessons from Extraordinary Lives was a New York Times best-seller.
As of May 2012, Couric also has a web show for ABC News, entitled Katie's Take, airing weekly on Yahoo.
Couric was born in Arlington, Virginia, the daughter of Elinor Tullie (née Hene), a homemaker and part-time writer, and John Martin Couric Jr., a public relations executive and news editor at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and the United Press in Washington, D.C. Her mother was Jewish, but Couric was raised Presbyterian. Couric's maternal grandparents, Bert Hene and Clara L. Froshin, were the children of Jewish immigrants from Germany. In a report for Today, she traced her paternal ancestry back to a French orphan who immigrated to the U.S. in the nineteenth century and became a broker in the cotton business.
Richard Clare "Rick" Danko (December 29, 1942 – December 10, 1999) was a Canadian musician and singer, best known as a member of The Band.
The third of four sons, Danko was born in Green's Corners, Ontario, a farming community outside of the town of Simcoe, to a musical family of Ukrainian descent.
Growing up in front of the family radio (as his future bandmates also did), he was exposed to country and R&B music at an early age. His musical heroes included Hank Williams and, later, Sam Cooke. He also drew inspiration from the music of his oldest brother, Maurice "Junior" Danko. Danko's younger brother, Terry, also became a musician. After entering the first grade in school, he performed on a 4 string tenor banjo.
Danko formed the Rick Danko Band at the age of 12 or 13, and at 14, he left school to pursue music. At 17, already a five-year music veteran, he booked himself as the opening act for Ronnie Hawkins, an American rockabilly singer whose group, The Hawks, were considered to be one of the best in Canada.[citation needed]
Joseph Fidler "Joe" Walsh (born November 20, 1947) is an American musician, songwriter, record producer, and actor. He has been a member of three commercially successful bands: the James Gang, Barnstorm, and the Eagles. He has also experienced success as a solo artist and prolific session musician, especially with B.B. King and Dan Fogelberg.
A native of Wichita, Kansas, Walsh and his family lived in Columbus, Ohio for a number of years. His mother was a classically trained pianist. When Walsh was twelve years old the family moved to New York City. Later, Walsh moved to Montclair, New Jersey and attended Montclair High School there. While attending Kent State University, he spent time in various bands playing around the Cleveland area, including The Measles. Walsh began a lifelong hobby of amateur ("ham") radio with the callsign WB6ACU while living in New York City.
In January 1968 he replaced Glen Schwartz as lead guitarist for the James Gang, an American power trio. Walsh proved to be the band's star attraction, noted for his innovative rhythm playing and creative guitar riffs. In particular he was known for hot-wiring the pickups on his electric guitars to create his trademark "attack" sound. The James Gang had several minor hits and became an early album-oriented rock staple for the next two years, including James Gang Live at Carnegie Hall. In November, 1971 Walsh left the group and formed the group Barnstorm, although their albums credited Walsh as a solo artist. Walsh and Barnstorm released their debut, the eponymous Barnstorm in 1972. The album was a critical success, but had only moderate sales. The follow-up The Smoker You Drink, the Player You Get (1973) was titled under his own name (although officially a Barnstorm album) and was Walsh's commercial breakthrough. The first single "Rocky Mountain Way" received heavy airplay and reached #23 on the US Top 40 chart. In 1974 Barnstorm disbanded and Walsh continued as a solo artist.
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Levon Helm "Poor Old Dirt Farmer" Official Music Video
Levon Helm Ramble At The Ryman "Ophelia" on PBS
CBS Sunday Morning Tribute to Levon Helm
Levon on Letterman - early 1980's
Levon Helm Ramble At The Ryman "The Weight" on PBS
Remembering Levon Helm; Musician, Actor, Author, Inspiration
Levon Helm - "Tennessee Jed" on Letterman 7/9 (TheAudioPerv.com)
"Anna Lee" - Levon Helm 2011 Ramble at the Ryman Live HD
Levon Helm - "Only Halfway Home"
An Interview with Levon Helm | Sound Tracks Quick Hits | PBS
Levon Helm: Eye To Eye With Katie Couric
Levon Helm - On Singing While Drumming
Levon Helm & Rick Danko of The Band - The Weight, The Shape I'm In, Up On Cripple Creek
LEVON HELM Newport Fest. 2008
Levon Helm "Poor Old Dirt Farmer" Official Music Video
Levon Helm Ramble At The Ryman "Ophelia" on PBS
CBS Sunday Morning Tribute to Levon Helm
Levon on Letterman - early 1980's
Levon Helm Ramble At The Ryman "The Weight" on PBS
Remembering Levon Helm; Musician, Actor, Author, Inspiration
Levon Helm - "Tennessee Jed" on Letterman 7/9 (TheAudioPerv.com)
"Anna Lee" - Levon Helm 2011 Ramble at the Ryman Live HD
Levon Helm - "Only Halfway Home"
An Interview with Levon Helm | Sound Tracks Quick Hits | PBS
Levon Helm: Eye To Eye With Katie Couric
Levon Helm - On Singing While Drumming
Levon Helm & Rick Danko of The Band - The Weight, The Shape I'm In, Up On Cripple Creek
Wide River to Cross - Levon Helm
Life is a Carnival - Levon Helm instructional drumming
Levon Helm & Rick Danko - 28 January 1983 - Starry Night, Portland OR
A Train Robbery - Levon Helm
"Ophelia" - Levon Helm and The Band
Remembering Levon Helm - When I Go Away
Levon Helm - Atlantic City
Joe Walsh, Ringo, Levon Helm, Clarence Clemens
Levon Helm The Weight
Levon Helm - The Weight (Live)
The Band - Atlantic City - 1994
Levon Helm, Ringo Starr and the 1989 All Starr Band "Up On Cripple Creek"
Sheryl Crow, Levon Helm, Emmylou Harris - "Evangeline" (Live, 1996)
Levon Helm - Up On Cripple Creek - Circa 1969
Atlantic City- Levon Helm- Merlefest 2008
Levon Helm - Live At The Getaway 03-02-1985
Levon Helm Band Performs "Deep Elem Blues" with Bob Weir at Gathering of the Vibes 2011
The Mountain - Levon Helm (High Quality)
Levon Helm - When I Go Away [ New Video + Download ]
Levon Helm - A Train Robbery live 2009
Levon Helm - Short Fat Fannie
Levon Helm & Friends "The Weight"
Levon Helm & Sheryl Crow - Evangeline
Levon Helm - Live at Joyous Lake, Woodstock. 07-18-1984
Levon Helm Band Live at Harvest Jazz & Blues - The Weight
Sheryl Crow, Levon Helm & Friends - "No Depression in Heaven" (Live)
Levon Helm: A Lesson from Paul Butterfield
Levon Helm on Rock and Roll
Levon Helm and Richard Manuel.
An Interview with Elvis Costello at Levon Helm's Studios - Radio Woodstock 100.1 - 11/14/13
Jamie Malanowski writes of musician Levon Helm's final years! (Interview)
Levon Helm, how The Band got to Woodstock
LEVON HELM - The Midnight Rambles - The Birthday Ramble! - Part 1
Robbie Robertson On The Break-Up Of The Band
Levon Helm - On His Early Influences
Outside Lands 2010 - Larry Cambell Interview (The Levon Helm Band)
Grace Potter's interview given after the "Love For Levon" concert
22 THE BAND IS BACK 1984 Reunion Concert Interviews
Levon Helm explains the Midnight Ramble
Levon Helm sings and plays acoustic guitar, The Band talk
The Band - The Making of "Up On Cripple Creek"
Interview: Steve Israel on Levon Helm
Imus on Robbie Robertson/Levon Helm
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Rick Danko Levon Helm
Levon Helm From Imus On MSNBC Monday September 19, 2005
Rick Danko & Levon Helm - January 23, 1983
Life Is A Carnival - Celebrating The Music Of Levon Helm (Live at The Triple Door - 6.17.2012)
Levon Helm Free Concert Gill's Farm Oct 16th '11
Gov't Mule with Levon Helm's Band (Ramble) part 2 - Mt Jam'12
Levon Helm & Max Weinberg - 1987/07/27 - Lonestar Cafe, NYC
Levon Helm, Bo Diddley and Johnny Paycheck Live from the LoneStar Cafe
Levon Helm Tribute Show II (2014)
The Band - Stage Fright (1970) [Full Album]
The Levon Helm Band - Full Concert - 08/03/08 - Newport Folk Festival (OFFICIAL)
Levon Helm Tribute Concert - Sugar Club, Dublin
Tribute (documentary) Levon Helm (The Band) 1940-2012
Levon Helm Funeral - A Day in the Life of Woodstock
Levon Helm: One year after
Ain't in It for My Health A Film About Levon Helm Full Movie