The Resume

(April 2, 1942-November 13, 2016)
Birth name is Claude Russell Jenkins
Session musician for Jerry Lee Lewis and The Rolling Stones
Wrote the hits 'Superstar,' 'This Masquerade' and 'A Song For You'

Why he might be annoying:

He wore a long silver beard.
He tended to dress in head-to-toe white.
The combination of the white beard and white clothes made him resemble Colonel Sanders.
He recorded and wrote songs that were often remade into bigger hits by Donny Hathaway and George Benson.

Why he might not be annoying:

He studied classical piano since age 3.
He played guitar and bass.
He's one of the most respected musicians in the business.
He received very little award recognition for his musical contributions.
He continued to tour into his 60s.

Credit: Black Chic

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

• BC/Black Chic's Profiles [Series 03]
• Celebrities Born on the Same Date [April] (Ranked: 4021942)
• CMT's 100 Greatest Duets [51-100] (Ranked: 64)
• Concert for Bangladesh [1971]
• I am an Okie
• I Appeared in Vince Gill's 'Don't Let Our Love Start Slippin' Away' Video [1992]
• I Collaborated with Willie Nelson
• I Covered a Bob Dylan Song
• I Covered an Elvis Song
• I Covered Arthur Hamilton's 'Cry Me a River'
• I Died in 2016 (Ranked: 74)
• I Married in 1975
• I Sing About New York
• Look at Me, I'm a Man in Shades
• Look at Me, I'm Using a Cane or Crutches
• Look at Me, I'm Wearing a Top Hat
• Look at Me, I'm Wearing a Tux
• Look at My Album Cover
• My Song Was Covered By Whitney Houston
• Profiles 18251-18500 (Ranked: 18310)
• Rolling Stone's Top 30 Albums of 2010 (Ranked: 3)
• Saturday Night Live Musical Guests [1975-79] (Ranked: 1975)
• Silver Foxes [Gray and Don't Care]

Year In Review:

In 2023, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
In 2022, Out of 44 Votes: 18.18% Annoying
In 2021, Out of 17 Votes: 35.29% Annoying
In 2020, Out of 9 Votes: 22.22% Annoying
In 2019, Out of 9 Votes: 55.56% Annoying
In 2018, Out of 6 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2017, Out of 4 Votes: 75.00% Annoying
In 2016, Out of 134 Votes: 64.93% Annoying
In 2015, Out of 7 Votes: 57.14% Annoying
In 2014, Out of 10 Votes: 20.0% Annoying
In 2013, Out of 17 Votes: 52.94% Annoying
In 2012, Out of 15 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
In 2011, Out of 17 Votes: 64.71% Annoying
In 2010, Out of 22 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2009, Out of 38 Votes: 44.74% Annoying
In 2008, Out of 31 Votes: 58.06% Annoying
In 2007, Out of 71 Votes: 47.89% Annoying
In 2006, Out of 65 Votes: 55.38% Annoying