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Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
Dead: Gidget.
Still Not Dead: Midget.
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And Bonnie Raitt's dad.
LOS ANGELES - 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. He was 88.
Raitt had become well known on the West Coast for his handsome presence and ringing voice when in 1944 he was invited to New York to try out for the role of Curly in the road company of “Oklahoma!” He was rushed from Penn Station to the St. James Theater and an audition with Oscar Hammerstein II and Richard Rodgers.
