THE BUTCHER'S BILL 2010. As usual at this time of year, I look back at those notable celebrities who have stepped on a rainbow this year. Please visit our sister audio blog BATHED IN THE LIGHT FROM ANDROMEDA to hear those recording artists who have died in 2010.

• WILLIE MITCHELL, songwriter/producer "Let's Stay Together", "Call Me (Come Back Home)
• ART CLOKEY, creator of Gumby
• MIEP GIES, helped hide Anne Frank
• ERIC ROHMER, writer/director
• ELIZABETH MOODY, actress "Dead Alive"
• TEDDY PENDERGRASS, singer
• ERICH SEGAL, screenwriter "Love Story"
• BOBBY CHARLES, songwriter "See You Later, Alligator", "I Don't Know Why But I Do"
• ROBERT "SQUIRREL" LESTER, singer "The Chi-Lites"
• KATE MCGARRIGLE, musician
• JEAN SIMMONS, actress "Hamlet", "Black Narcissus", "Guys and Dolls"
• PERNELL ROBERTS, actor "Bonanza", "Trapper John M.D."
• LOUIS AUCHINCLOSS, author/historian "Queen Victoria & Her Circle"
• ZELDA RUBINSTEIN, actress "Poltergeist"
• J.D. SALINGER, author "Franny and Zooey", "Catcher in the Rye"
• HOWARD ZINN, historian "A People's History of the United States"
• SIR JOHNNY DANKWORTH, musician
• TOM BROOKSHIER, TV sportscaster
• IAN CARMICHAEL, actor "I'm All Right, Jack"
• PHIL HARRIS, fisherman "The Deadliest Catch"
• CHARLIE WILSON, politician "Charlie Wilson's War"
• ALEXANDER MCQUEEN, director "Bjork: Volumen"
• DOUG FIEGER, singer "The Knack"
• ART VAN DAMME, jazz musician
• DICK FRANCIS, author
• DALE HAWKINS, singer "Susie Q"
• KATHRYN GRAYSON, singer/actress "Ziegfeld Follies"
• LIONEL JEFFRIES, actor/director "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang"
• ALEXANDER HAIG, former U.S. Secretary of State
• CAROLINE MCWILLIAMS, actress "Soap", "Benson"
• ANDREW KOENIG, actor "Batman: Dead End", "Growing Pains"
• JIM HARMON, screenwriter "The Lemon Grove Kids Vs. the Monsters"
• RON BANKS, singer "The Dramatics"
• CAROL MARSH, actress "Horror of Dracula"
• COREY HAIM, actor "The Lost Boys"
• MERLIN OLSON, actor "Little House on the Prairie"
• PETER GRAVES, actor "Killers From Space", "Night of the Hunter", "Airplane"
• LESLEY DUNCAN, singer "Love Song", "If I Could Change Your Mind"
• HERB COHEN, record executive/manager "Frank Zappa"
• SID FLEISCHMAN, author "The Ghost on Saturday Night"
• ALEX CHILTON, singer "The Box Tops", "Big Star"
• FESS PARKER, actor "Daniel Boone", "Davy Crockett"
• HERB DENENBERG, TV reporter "WCAU-TV"
• JOHNNY MAESTRO, singer "The Crests"
• ROBERT CULP, actor "I Spy", "Spectre"
• DICK GIORDANO, comic book artist "Batman", "Green Lantern"
• JUNE HAVOC, actress "Gentleman's Agreement"
• MALCOLM POINDEXTER, TV reporter "KYW-TV"
• SHIRLEY MILLS, actress "The Grapes of Wrath"
• BUDDY GORMAN, actor "The Bowery Boys", "The Dead End Kids"
• JOHN FORSYTHE, actor "The Trouble With Harry", "Dynasty", "Bachelor Father"
• HENRY SCARPELLI, comic book artist "Archie"
• CHRISTOPHER CAZENOVE, actor "The Duchess of Duke Street", "Dynasty"
• MALCOLM MCLAREN, manager "The Sex Pistols"
• MEINHARDT RAABE, actor "The Wizard of Oz"
• DIXIE CARTER, actress "Designing Women"
• MISSISSIPPI SLIM, blues singer
• DARYL GATES, former L.A. police chief
• DEDE ALLEN, film editor "Bonnie and Clyde"
• LYNN REDGRAVE, actress "Gods and Monsters", "Smashing Time"
• PETER O'DONNELL, author "Modesty Blaise"
• ROBERT J. SERLING, author/brother of Rod Serling
• LENA HORNE, singer
• FRANK FRAZETTA, artist
• ROSA RIO, organist "The Shadow"
• RUTH CHEW, author "What the Witch Left"
• RONNIE JAMES DIO, singer "Black Sabbath", "Dio"
• MARTIN GARDNER, mathematician/author "Perplexing Puzzles and Tantalyzing Teasers"
• WEE WILLIE WEBBER, TV host
• ART LINKLETTER, TV host
• GARY COLEMAN, actor "Diff'rent Strokes"
• DENNIS HOPPER, actor/director "Easy Rider", "Night Tide", "Speed"
• RUE MCCLANAHAN, actress "Maude", "The Golden Girls"
• HIMAN BROWN, radio producer "Inner Sanctum", "CBS Radio Mystery Theater"
• MARVIN ISLEY, bassist "The Isley Brothers"
• CRISPIAN ST. PETERS, singer "The Pied Piper"
• AL WILLIAMSON, comic book artist "E.C. Comics", "Flash Gordon"
• JIMMY DEAN, singer "Big Bad John"
• JIM PUGLIANO, drummer "The Jaggerz"
• PHIL GORDON, actor "The Beverly Hillbillies", "Green Acres"
• GARRY SHIDER, guitarist "Parliament -- known as Diaper Man"
• RONALD NEAME, director "The Poseidon Adventure"
• JOJO BILLINGSLEY, singer "Lynyrd Skynyrd"
• COREY ALLEN, actor "Rebel Without A Cause"
• VONETTA MCGEE, actress "Blacula"
• SUGAR MINNOTT, singer "Hang On Natty"
• HARVEY PEKAR, comic book writer "American Splendor"
• GEORGE STEINBRENNER, baseball team owner "N.Y. Yankees"
• ALAN HUME, cinematographer "Return of the Jedi"
• SIR CHARLES MACKERRAS, conductor
• LARRY KEITH, actor "The Raven & Other Favorite Poems"
• ANDY HUMMEL, bassist "Big Star"
• MAURY CHAYKIN, actor "Nero Wolfe", "Dances With Wolves"
• MITCH MILLER, record executive/TV host "Sing Along With Mitch"
• BOBBY HEBB, singer "Sunny"
• CATFISH COLLINS, guitarist "Parliament", "The J.B.'s"
• PATRICIA NEAL, actress "Hud", "The Fountainhead"
• TED KOWALKSI, singer "The Diamonds"
• GEORGE DICENZO, actor "Close Encounters of the Third Kind", "The Ninth Configuration"
• DAVID L. WOLPER, producer "Roots", "The Thorn Birds"
• EDWIN NEWMAN, newscaster "NBC News"
• ABBEY LINCOLN, singer
• ROBERT WILSON, musician "The Gap Band"
• BOBBY THOMSON, baseball player "The Shot Heard 'Round the World"
• MICHAEL BEEN, musician "The Call"
• JACK HORKHEIMER, TV astronomer "Star Hustler"
• ROBERT SCHIMMEL, comedian
• MIKE EDWARDS, cellist "Electric Light Orchestra"
• CLIVE DONNER, director "Spectre"
• GLENN SHADIX, actor "Beetlejuice"
• BILLIE MAE RICHARDS, voice actor "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer"
• KEVIN MCCARTHY, actor "Invasion of the Body Snatchers"
• HAROLD GOULD, actor "Rhoda"
• CLAUDE CHABROL, director
• BILL LITTLEJOHN, animator "Tom & Jerry", "Peanuts"
• LEONARD SKINNER, teacher "namesake for Lynyrd Skynyrd"
• EDDIE FISHER, singer
• GLORIA STUART, actress "The Old Dark House", "The Invisible Man", "Titanic"
• BUDDY MORROW, band leader "Poe For Moderns"
• SALLY MENKE, film editor "Reservoir Dogs", "Pulp Fiction", "Jackie Brown"
• ARTHUR PENN, director "Bonnie and Clyde"
• JOE MANTELL, actor "Chinatown"
• TONY CURTIS, actor "Sweet Smell of Success", "Some Like It Hot"
• STEPHEN J. CANNELL, producer "The Rockford Files", "Wiseguy"
• MARSHALL FLAUM, director "The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau"
• SIR NORMAN WISDOM, actor/comedian "On the Beat"
• ROY WARD BAKER, director "A Night To Remember", "Quatermass & the Pit"
• DAME JOAN SUTHERLAND, soprano
• SOLOMON BURKE, singer "Everybody Needs Somebody To Love", "Cry To Me"
• SIMON MACCORKINDALE, actor "Death on the Nile"
• JOHNNY SHEFFIELD, actor "Tarzan's New York Adventure", "Bomba the Jungle Boy"
• BARBARA BILLINGSLEY, actress "Leave It To Beaver", "Airplane"
• GRAHAM CROWDEN, actor "Doctor Who: The Horns of Nimon", "Waiting For God"
• TOM BOSLEY, actor "Happy Days"
• ROBERT PAYNTER, cinematographer "An American Werewolf in London"
• BOB GUCCIONE, publisher "Penthouse"
• MIKE ESPOSITO, comic book artist "Wonder Woman", "The Amazing Spider-Man"
• GREGORY ISAACS, singer "Night Nurse"
• TED SORENSON, JFK's White House Counsel
• CHARLIE O'DONNELL, TV announcer "Wheel of Fortune"
• JILL CLAYBURGH, actress "An Unmarried Woman"
• TONY WEST, musician "The Searchers"
• DINO DELAURENTIIS, producer "Europa '51", "Barbarella", "La Strada"
• BABY MARIE OSBOURNE, actress
• HENRYK GORECKI, composer
• IRVIN KERSHNER, director "The Empire Strikes Back"
• INGRID PITT, actress "The Vampire Lovers", "Countess Dracula"
• LESLIE NIELSEN, actor "Forbidden Planet", "Airplane", "Police Squad"
• MARIO MONICELLI, director
• DON MEREDITH, football player/TV announcer "Monday Night Football"
• JAMES MOODY, jazz saxophonist "Moody's Mood For Love"
• BLAKE EDWARDS, producer/director "The Pink Panther"
• JEAN ROLLIN, director
• DON VAN VLIET, musician "Captain Beefheart"
• STEVE LANDESBURG, actor "Barney Miller"
• FRED FOY, radio announcer
• DOROTHY JONES, singer "The Cookies"
• BERNARD WILSON, singer "Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes"
• TEENA MARIE, singer
• NICK SANTO, singer "The Capris"