Jimy Williams joined the Toronto Blue Jays in 1980 as third-base coach and would manage the team from 1986 until 1989 when the Jays started the season 12-24 and Jimy was replaced by Cito Gaston.

Melanie Safka was the singer-songwriter best known for "Brand New Key," "What Have They Done to My Song Ma" and "Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)." Billed as Melanie, she played Woodstock.

Frank Farian was the singer and producer who founded both Boney M and Milli Vanilli.

Norman Jewison directed such films as In The Heat of the Night, Fiddler on the Roof, Moonstruck and The Hurricane. He also shook my hand on stage at Convocation Hall when I received my degree from the University of Toronto.

Marlena Shaw was the jazz, blues and soul singer best known for her rendition of California Soul

As I've written here many, many times, I learnt to read thanks to Mr. Mugs. As a kindergarten student in Toronto during the 1970s, the English Sheepdog Mr. Mugs was the star of our "learn to read" books and I loved them. The creator and author of those early Mr.

Nerene Virgin is best known for playing the role of Jodie in Today's Special, a TV Ontario children's series that aired from 1981 to 1987. She also hosted Eye on Toronto on CFTO and anchored newscasts for CBC.

Ed Broadbent was the longtime New Democratic Party leader who was the first leader of the New Democrats to see his party rise to first place in public opinion polling.

George Gamester was a Toronto Star columnist who wrote for the paper for more than four decades. He was best known for “Gamester’s People,” a recurring column in which he wrote about ordinary people and found out what was extraordinary about them.

David Soul was the actor best known for playing detective Kenneth "Hutch" Hutchinson on TV's Starsky & Hutch.

Norris McDonald appeared on Toronto Mike'd when he came to TMLX11 at Palma's Kitchen in December 2022, and Donald Shebib appeared via a recorded phone conversation with Peter Gross, but here are FOTMs who passed away this year and appeared on the podcast proper. David Onley, 72I would watch David

Schecky Greene was the legendary standup comedian known for his long tenure as a Las Vegas headliner and for working with Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley.

Tom Wilkinson was the Oscar-nominated actor best known for starring in “In the Bedroom” and his supporting role in “Michael Clayton.”

Tommy Smothers was one half of the socially conscious and groundbreaking comedy duo the Smothers Brothers. He participated in John Lennon and Yoko Ono's bed-in for peace on May 26, 1969 at the Fairmont Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal.

Harry Rosen was the founder and executive chairman of the luxury men's wear store Harry Rosen Inc.

Andre Braugher was the two-time Emmy-winning star of series including Homicide: Life on the Street, Men of a Certain Age and Brooklyn Nine-Nine.

Ryan O'Neal was the actor best known for his Oscar-nominated role in 1970 romance Love Story.

Norman Lear was  the writer, director and producer who revolutionized prime time television with such topical hits as All in the Family and Maude and propelled political and social turmoil into the once-insulated world of sitcoms.

Chad Allan was the founding member and original lead singer of The Guess Who. The Chad Allan & the Expressions single "Shakin' All Over", a cover of the Johnny Kidd song, went all the way to #22 in the US charts.

Sandra Day O’Connor served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1981 to 2006. O'Connor was the first woman to serve as a U.S. Supreme Court justice.

Shane MacGowan fronted The Pogues from 1982 until their break-up in 2014. I play The Pogues often, everything from Dirty Old Town to The Irish Rover and The Body of an American, a song I fell in love with because they'd play it during wakes at Kavanagh's Irish Pub in