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I did not watch the show, but I was pleased to see an award was given to Glen Campbell. I have not heard the song for which he won the award, but it was nice to see him given one last tip o' the hat from his peers.

My apologies. All obit info has now been deleted from my post.

(Images are of Marian McPartland, Dick Hyman, Sir Roland Hanna and Hank Jones)

"I guess I just wasn't made for these times" -- both the song and the sentiment.

Some fellows look and find the sunshine, I always look and find the rain. Some fellows make a winning sometime, But I never even make a gain, Beeee-lieeeeve meeeee . . .

Have to admit that I've never watched a complete episode. Do I have to leave the country, the world, the universe? You must be an orphan from the Delta Quadrant. I've never read TKAM. Maybe I've seen a complete Star Trek episode -- I'm not sure. I know I fell asleep during the first Star Trek movie, so I only saw the beginning and end of that. I've think I may be an orphan from Delta Burke.

OK, I know every one will want to rip on him/his work, but one thing i found interesting in the obit from the AP was this -- After serving as a propaganda writer in the Korean War, McKuen wound up in San Francisco, where his friend Phyllis Diller helped him find work in the growing nightclub scene. He went on to sing with the Lionel Hampton band, acted in a handful of movies and TV shows, read poetry on the same bill as Jack Kerouac and other Beat writers and had a minor hit single in the early 1960s with the dance parody "Oliver Twist." That whole paragraph bespeaks a rather interesting life, but does any one know anything about him singing with Lionel Hampton's band? It seems so unlikely. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/30/rod-mckuen-dead-songwriter-poet-obituary_n_6576838.html http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/30/arts/rod-mckuen-prolific-poet-and-lyricist-dies-at-81.html?_r=0

Such as . . .