Posted on 09/08/2024 3:58:50 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Screamin' Scott Simon of Sha Na Na has died at the age of 75, following a lengthy battle with sinus cancer.
The news was confirmed by his daughter, Nina, in a social media post.
"My dad was a rock star. Literally," she wrote, sharing a photo of her father and family. "A member of Sha Na Na for over 50 years. He loved early morning diners and late nights onstage. But he loved his girls most of all."
Simon's Background
Simon was born in Kansas City, Missouri in 1948, later graduating from Columbia in New York City in 1970. That same year, he joined Sha Na Na, the doo wop revival group who rose to fame covering '50s rock 'n' roll songs and even performing at Woodstock in 1969.
With Sha Na Na, Simon wrote a number of the band's songs. In 1978, the whole group appeared in Grease as "Johnny Casino and the Gamblers," but Simon did more than just appear on screen — he also co-wrote the song "Sandy" with Louis St. Louis, which John Travolta sang.
Over the years, Sha Na Na performed with the likes of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Steve Martin, Bruce Springsteen and Billy Joel. They also had their own television series named after themselves, which ran from 1977 to 1981 and included guests like Chuck Berry, the Ramones, Dusty Springfield, Billy Crystal and more.
Simon was a member of Sha Na Na until 2022, the year the band stopping touring.
Something is going on with this cancer, this isn’t normal. Everytime I hear about a death it almost always is from cancer. It seems everybody today is getting it, my neighbors, my friends, co-workers, what the hell is going on? Fauci shot?
I liked the Sha Na Na syndicated show.
My dad has been diagnosed with cancer as of a couple of days ago.
Chemo starts soon.
He came home from the hospital yesterday.
That’s about all I know.
No jab.
Something is going on with this cancer, this isn’t normal.
Indeed notice by many are looking into the food chain my first bet would be the imports no telling how they operate.
Is Bowser still living?
It’s the American diet. Processed food.
Western diet.
We are sold food items not legal in Europe.
Sha Na Na was a good group and had good TV program they all had degrees not many bands like that.
A big part of the answer no doubt.
Funny, an episode of Sha Na Na featuring Ronnie Spector and the Ronettes popped up in my Youtube feed just the other day.
That’s Scott Simon on the piano:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72bPue3wC5A
How about the fact that he was old!!! 75!
RIP. The Sha Na Na TV show was great fun. But I cannot find the complete series on DVD. If I could, I’d order it in a second.
This unavailability probably has something to do with the licensing of the songs featured there.
Still alive and still an Uber Leftie:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Bauman
Good luck to your father, and I hope he has great doctors.
I looked it up. he’s 76 and still alive. And apparently he also works as a bad guy in Super Mario video games.
We are sold ingredients they won’t sell to Mexico?
I loved watching the Sha Na Na tv show in the 1970s
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