Another one dead at age 81!

[Dark Knight]

Rickie Layne, ventriloquist on 'Sullivan Show,' dies at 81.

LOS ANGELES (AP) - A ventriloquist who frequently appeared on
"The Ed Sullivan Show" has died.
Rickie Layne appeared with his Yiddish-accented dummy Velvel.
Singer Nat "King" Cole discovered Layne at a nightclub on the
Sunset Strip and urged Sullivan to put the act on his popular
Sunday night variety show.
Layne appeared several dozen times. Sullivan was such a fan that
he often got into the act himself, serving as straight man for the
dummy that called the typically stone-faced host "Ed Solomon."
Family members say Layne died earlier this month of heart
failure at the age of 81.


(Copyright 2006 by The Associated Press Newswire.)

 

[poco]

Wow, weird - Dennis Weaver, Don Knotts and now this guy - all 81. You aren't 81 by any chance are you DK??????

 

[kato]

Have never heard of him. Must have been way before my time. Oh well, may he RIP. So, that's 4 now.