{"id":209096,"date":"2020-09-30T10:00:16","date_gmt":"2020-09-30T15:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=209096"},"modified":"2020-09-30T11:19:17","modified_gmt":"2020-09-30T16:19:17","slug":"helen-reddy-mac-davis-martin-milner-passings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=209096","title":{"rendered":"Helen Reddy, Mac Davis, passings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-209097\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/ReddyHelen.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"212\" height=\"119\" \/>LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 Helen Reddy, the Australian-born singer who scored an enduring hit with her feminist anthem \u201cI Am Woman,\u201d has died at 78 in Los Angeles. Reddy\u2019s children announced their mother\u2019s death Tuesday evening, saying that while they are heartbroken, they \u201ctake comfort in the knowledge that her voice will live on forever.\u201d The Australian-born singer enjoyed a prolific career, appearing in \u201cAirport 1975\u201d as a singing nun and scoring several hits, starting with \u201cI Don\u2019t Know How To Love Him&#8221; from \u201cJesus Christ Superstar\u201d in 1971. She won the best female pop vocal performance in 1973, thanking her then husband and God, telling the audience \u201cbecause she makes everything possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-209098\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/DavisMac-300x185.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"185\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/DavisMac-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/DavisMac-283x175.jpg 283w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/DavisMac.jpg 680w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) \u2014 Country star and hit Elvis songwriter Mac Davis has died. He was 78. His manager said Davis died on Tuesday after heart surgery. Davis started his career writing hits for Presley, including \u201cA Little Less Conversation\u201d and \u201cIn the Ghetto.\u201d The native of Lubbock, Texas, had a varied career over the years as a singer, actor and TV host and was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2006. He was named ACM entertainer of the year in 1974 after the success of songs like \u201cBaby Don&#8217;t Get Hooked on Me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 Helen Reddy, the Australian-born singer who scored an enduring hit with her feminist anthem \u201cI Am Woman,\u201d has died at 78 in Los Angeles. Reddy\u2019s children announced their mother\u2019s death Tuesday evening, saying that while they are heartbroken, they \u201ctake comfort in the knowledge that her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":209097,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=209096"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209102,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209096\/revisions\/209102"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/209097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=209096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=209096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=209096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}