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  • Broadway star John Raitt dies (father of Bonnie Raitt)

    02/20/2005 3:54:19 PM PST · by JellyJam · 28 replies · 1,254+ views
    AP ^ | Feb. 20, 2005 | AP
    John Raitt, the robust baritone who created the role of Billy Bigelow in the original New York production of "Carousel" and sang with Doris Day in the movie "Pajama Game," died Sunday, his manager said. He was 88. Raitt, the father of the blues and rock singer and songwriter Bonnie Raitt, died peacefully from complications with pneumonia at his Pacific Palisades home, his manager, James Fitzgerald, said in a printed statement.