Joe Feeney, a tenor who crooned "Danny Boy" and other standards for 25 years on "The Lawrence Welk Show," died Wednesday in Carlsbad, Calif., of emphysema. He was 76. From 1957 to 1982, Feeney was the featured tenor on Welk's show, which offered easy-listening "champagne music" and clean-cut, family-oriented songs. The shows are still broadcast on public television stations.
Kate Phillips, who had mostly supporting roles in more than 50 films during the 1930s and '40s and co-wrote the 1958 cult movie, "The Blob," has died in Keene, N.H. She was 94. Phillips, who went by the name of Kay Linaker, had small parts in a number of popular films, such as "Drums Along the Mohawk," "Blood and Sand," "Laura" and a number of the "Charlie Chan" detective movies.
Paul Davis, a singer and songwriter whose soft rock hit "I Go Crazy" stayed at the top of the charts for weeks after its release in 1977, died Tuesday of a heart attack in Meridian, Miss. He was 60. Davis' other popular hits included "65 Love Affair"; "You're Still New To Me," a country duet with Marie Osmond; and "Ride 'Em Cowboy."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
