{"id":4576,"date":"2009-02-11T08:37:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-11T16:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=4576"},"modified":"2009-02-11T08:37:16","modified_gmt":"2009-02-11T16:37:16","slug":"molly-bee-muncy-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=4576","title":{"rendered":"Molly Bee Muncy Dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/44993974.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/44993974.jpg','popup','width=344,height=425,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/44993974-tm.jpg\" height=\"247\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"44993974\" \/><\/a>Carlsbad lost a country singer on Saturday February 7, 2009 when <strong>Molly Bee Muncy<\/strong> died due to &#8220;complications related to a stroke at Tri-City Medical Center in Oceanside,&#8221; according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/obituaries\/la-me-molly-bee11-2009feb11,0,7175717.story\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Times<\/a><\/em><\/strong>. She was 69.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At 10, she sang &#8220;Lovesick Blues&#8221; for country singer Rex Allen and soon debuted on his radio show. Within two years, she was a regular on &#8220;Hometown Jamboree,&#8221; a Los Angeles-based show run by Cliffie Stone, who helped popularize country music in California. . . . First broadcast on radio, &#8220;Jamboree&#8221; aired on KTLA-TV Channel 5 from the late 1940s to 1960. The show gave a big break to many young singers, including Tommy Sands, who became a teen idol and dated Bee in the 1950s. . . . &#8220;She had a great voice and a wonderful stage personality,&#8221; Sands told The Times on Monday. &#8220;She was a sweet person, just terrific.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A celebration of Bee&#8217;s life will be held at 3 p.m. Monday at El Camino Memorial Chapel, 340 Melrose Ave., Encinitas.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/obituaries\/la-me-molly-bee11-2009feb11,0,7175717.story\" target=\"_blank\">LA Times<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carlsbad lost a country singer on Saturday February 7, 2009 when Molly Bee Muncy died due to &#8220;complications related to a stroke at Tri-City Medical Center in Oceanside,&#8221; according to a story in the Los Angeles Times. She was 69. At 10, she sang &#8220;Lovesick Blues&#8221; for country singer Rex Allen and soon debuted on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4576"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4576"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4577,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4576\/revisions\/4577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}