NYTimes, By DOUGLAS MARTIN  Published: August 3, 2007  Tommy Makem, 74, Hero of Irish Folk Music, Dies
"Tommy Makem, a songwriter, balladeer and folk singer who with the Clancy Brothers and as a soloist introduced a raucous, revolutionary take on time-honored Irish folk music, first in the United States and then in Ireland, died Wednesday in Dover, N.H. He was 74....." http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/03/arts/03makem.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin.

but more personally...sent to radio dj from Liam Clancy:

From: This Old Porch <joewncw@GMAIL.COM>   Posted: 01-Aug-07 15:06

Good friends - I just got the word from the family that Tommy passed  away at about 6.45PM in Dover NH. As you all probably know he has
been ill for quite a while. His suffering at last is over.
He was a friend and partner-in-song for over fifty years. We shared a great hunk of our lives together. We were a hell of a team. Tommy
was a man of high integrity, honesty, and, at the end, courage. Our paths diverged at times but our friendship never waned. He was my
brother every bit as much as my blood brothers. His death has left a void that cannot be filled. A great entertainer has left us.
All our thoughts and prayers go out now to his family - Katey, Shane, Conor, Rory, Molly and all those close to him.  Liam Clancy

THANKS SO MUCH to the station management fo accommodating  my health issues which allow me to continue to volunteer Saturday mornings and bring you the music that 'moves and sustains me. '

1. Tommy Makem- 8/1/07
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsaQPobUZiM

2.  Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem - Rising of the Moon (Bobby Clancey 5 14 27 - 9 6 02)
The Best of the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem- Columbia/Legacy

On the web: 

musicians listed by  way they passed away: http://www.elvispelvis.com/fullerup.htm

Sing Out has a compilation in progress for members  http://www.singout.org/

3. Margaret MacArthur - 5/7/28- 5/23/06
Wilkes Lovell 247 - Ballads Thrice Twisted - Whitestone Records

3. Buck Owens 8 12 29   3 25 06
Dueling Banjoes 220 with Roy Clarke

4. Mindy Jostyn - 3/10/05 http://www.mindyjostyn.com/
worked with cindy lauper and carly simon, who wrote a poem for Minday at:
http://www.carlysimon.com/timeline/MindyJostyn.html
Other Guy's Girls - Cedar Lane - Palmatto Records

5. Rachel Bissex 1956- 2/20/05 www.rachelbissex.com/
(lead in with a bit of Browne (For America)
Oh Jackson - Between the Broken Lines - One Take Music

6. Jolie Christie Richman 1/19/05 
Colleen Kattau - (Richman) Woman Nation -Inhibited Woman - Windlight Studio

7 Rick Fielding 1944- 3/20/04 http://www.borealisrecords.com/a_fielding.html
This One's The Dreamer - This One's The Dreamer 305 - Borealis
 
Johnny Cash  2 26 32  9 12 03
June Carter Cash 2 23 29- 5 15 03

8. Johnny & June C. Cash - Jackson 323, - At San Quentin (Columbia/ Legacy Edition)

9.  Johnny & June C. Cash  Darlin' Companion 224 -  At San Quentin (Columbia/ Legacy Edition)

10. Derek Bell   10 21 35 - 10 17 02
Sidh Beag Sidh Mor - Carolins Receipt - (Turlough O Carolan 1670 1738

Dave Carter - 8 13 52 - 7 19 02

11. Dave Carter Tracy Grammer - Tilman County - Drum Hat Buddha

12. Dave Carter Tracy Grammer -  Tanlgewood Tree - TanglewoodSignature Sounds

13. Dave Van Ronk - 6 30 36 - 2 10 02 Sunday Street from WFUV special on Dave

(Jeff Hardy 3/31 55 sept 11 01)

14. Mimi Farina - 4 30 45 - 7 18 01
In the Quiet Morning - 310 - Take Heart - A & M

15. Al Grierson - 48 - 11/2000  Fifty Cent Sneaker - Songs of Love, war, Theogogy, Golf and the Great American Railroad

16. Al Grierson - (Hardy) Zepher (Take it Slow) 508 - Songs of Love, war, Theogogy, Golf and the Great American Railroad - www.utahphillips.org/al/

16. Ed McCurdy - Jan 11 19 - 3 23 2000 -  Poetry by Ed.

17. George Harrison - 25 feb 43 - Nov 29 01 Only a Northern Song - The Beatles Anthology 2 - Capital

18. Beth Ferguson - Nov 1 99  What is Mine - Dance on the Earth

19. Shel Silverstein  9 25 32 - 5 10 99
 Invitation, 18 Flavors, Melinda Mae, Sister for Sale
 
20. John Denver -b. Henry John Deutschendorf Jr., 31 December 1943, Roswell, NM,  - 0ct 12 97 53yrs
On the Road - Back Home Again -

21. Laura Nyro - October 18, 1947 – April 8, 1997
Save the Country - also played in memory of Maris Hearn of WJFF

(Ewan Mcall 1 25 15 - 10 22 89)

21. Kate Wolf 1/ 27/ 42 - 12/ 10/ 86
Eyes of a Painter - 404 - Close to You - Kaleidoscope Records

(Steve Goodman - 7 25 48 - 9 20 84  left the album home)

22. Stan Rogers : (Born:November 29, 1949 in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; Died:  June  2 , 1983) 33
Turnaround - Turnaround - Fogarty's Cove.

23. Harry Chapin (December 7, 1942 – July 16, 1981) Cats in the Cradle

(John Lennon 9 oct 40 - dec 8, 1980)

24.Jim Croce: Age 30   (b. 10 January 1943, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, d. 20 September 1973) Time in a Bottle.

25. Buddy Holly - Charles Hardin Holley (September 7, 1936 – February 3, 1959)

One listener e mailed me..... "talent is no protection against death..... "

fading out with a bit of City of New Orleans with Steve Goodman from 40th Anniversary  Philadelphia Folk Festival - Sliced Bread