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octoberlib

(14,971 posts)
Tue Mar 31, 2020, 08:06 AM Mar 2020

Anybody remember Fountains of Wayne? Adam Schlesinger is in an induced coma due to coronavirus





More awful news. Fountains of Wayne’s Adam Schlesinger is in a medically-induced coma due to COVID-19. He is 52.

Jonathan Demme, with his glorious ears, used this Kinks cover in “The Manchurian Candidate.”

Schlesinger, 52 and a Montclair native, has reportedly been on a ventilator for two weeks since becoming infected with COVID-19.

Schlesinger co-founded Fountains of Wayne in 1995 and released five albums with the band.

He is a three-time Emmy winner, having worked in television — from “Sesame Street” to “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” — and has written and produced for other bands, including his projects Ivy and Brooklyn-based Fever High.

He was nominated for an Academy Award and Golden Globe in 1997 for writing the title track from the Tom Hanks film “That Thing You Do!” He was also nominated for two Tonys in 2008 for “Cry-Baby” the musical.

https://www.nj.com/coronavirus/2020/03/fountains-of-wayne-band-founder-nj-native-adam-schlesinger-in-coma-from-covid-19.html

FOUNTAINS OF WAYNE- Better Things
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Here's wishing you the bluest sky
And hoping something better comes tomorrow
Hoping all the verses rhyme
And the very best of choruses, too
Follow all the doubt and sadness
I know that better things are on the way
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Anybody remember Fountains of Wayne? Adam Schlesinger is in an induced coma due to coronavirus (Original Post) octoberlib Mar 2020 OP
Very sad The Genealogist Mar 2020 #1
They're best known for Stacy's Mom but it wasn't my favorite. octoberlib Mar 2020 #3
Sure. One of their songs was used in a minivan commercial. NT mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2020 #2
So sad to hear it. I loved "Red Dragon Tattoo" Glorfindel Mar 2020 #4
Bummer! ProfessorGAC Mar 2020 #5

The Genealogist

(4,723 posts)
1. Very sad
Tue Mar 31, 2020, 08:32 AM
Mar 2020

I learned most of what I know about this group from "Crap from the Past" which is a show on KFAI in Minneapolis that I listen to by streaming. A particularly beautiful song I ADORE is "Valley Winter Song."

Glorfindel

(9,706 posts)
4. So sad to hear it. I loved "Red Dragon Tattoo"
Tue Mar 31, 2020, 09:04 AM
Mar 2020

I sincerely hope that Mr. Schlesinger makes a prompt and complete recovery.

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