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fastblackmerc
04-08-2013, 01:20 PM
Annette Funicello passed away today.

"Annette Joanne Funicello (October 22, 1942 – April 8, 2013) was an American actress and singer. Beginning her professional career as a child performer at the age of twelve, Funicello rose to prominence as one of the most popular "Mouseketeers" on the original Mickey Mouse Club.[1] As a teenager, she transitioned to a successful career as a singer with the pop singles "O Dio Mio," "Tall Paul" and "Pineapple Princess", as well as establishing herself as a film actress, popularizing the successful "Beach Party" genre alongside co-star Frankie Avalon during the mid-1960s.

In 1992, Funicello announced that she had been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. She died of complications of the disease on April 8, 2013."
MM2004
04-08-2013, 01:28 PM
Rest in peace Annette.

You will be missed by many, many people.

Mike.
1 Bad Merc
04-08-2013, 01:55 PM
Another legend gone -wont forget Beach Party Bingo!
Shaijack
04-08-2013, 02:50 PM
Every Teen boys dream back then.
Blackmobile
04-08-2013, 04:25 PM
Those beach party movies is what gave me the need to move to Florida. She will be missed but her memory will live on.
SC Cheesehead
04-08-2013, 04:58 PM
Every Teen boys dream back then.

Yup.

I had a crush as big as a house on her, back in the day.

R.I.P., Annette...
beantown mm
04-08-2013, 05:01 PM
Yup.

I had a crush as big as a house on her, back in the day.

R.I.P., Annette...


heck ya,, for the younger guys , here she is back then.

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Cobra25
04-08-2013, 05:34 PM
Those beach party movies is what gave me the need to move to Florida. She will be missed but her memory will live on.Plus 1 on that ED . I always loved watching her sing & her movies. She will be missed.
massacre
04-08-2013, 05:44 PM
Too young for this really but I do remember seeing her on TV with Frankie Avalon.
RIP
jimlam56
04-08-2013, 05:49 PM
Yup.

I had a crush as big as a house on her, back in the day.

R.I.P., Annette...
I'm getting old...
I can remember her on the original MM club...
Shaijack
04-08-2013, 06:47 PM
I still have her playboy pin up. Oh that was not her.
Motorhead350
04-08-2013, 06:49 PM
I would hear Tall Paul quite often in the Marauder.

RIP.
N40GL
04-09-2013, 06:09 AM
And "Pineapple Princess." Both written for her by the Sherman Brothers.

I met her fleetingly (and I mean fleetingly - less than two minutes) when I worked at Disneyland in the mid-1970s as a conductor on the Santa Fe and Disneyland Railroad (now the Disneyland Railroad), but even in that brief time she impressed me as gracious, warm and genuine.

RIP.
Bigdogjim
04-09-2013, 06:59 AM
One of America's first sweethearts! Grew up before our eye's.

R.I.P. God Bless!
jerrym3
04-09-2013, 07:06 AM
There were only two reasons back in the 50's to leave the "guys" and go inside to watch the small b/w 14" Admiral TV.

Buster Crabbe/Flash Gordon, and Annette.
Motorhead350
04-09-2013, 04:21 PM
There were only two reasons back in the 50's to leave the "guys" and go inside to watch the small b/w 14" Admiral TV.


There are a lot more than that.

:(