UNSUBSCRIBED: Koko Taylor & Sam Butera

Koko Taylor (80) Grammy-winning blues singer, the “Queen of the Blues” who belted out her signature hits, “Wang Dang Doodle” and “Hey Bartender!” at hundreds of concerts. Taylor died after intestinal surgery in Chicago, Illinois on June 3, 2009.

Sam Butera (81) saxophonist, with band “The Witnesses”, fused N’awlins Swing with R& B Jump music. He shared the Las Vegas stage as sidekick of singer and trumpet player Louis Prima (d. 1978) and Prima’s wife, singer Keely Smith, since 1954. Their hits included “Jump Jive an’ Wail,” “Hey Marie,” and “Just a Gigolo/I Ain’t Got Nobody." Butera, who performed until 2004, died of pneumonia in Las Vegas, Nevada on June 3, 2009.