GODFREY DANIELS! Who died today?? Godfried Danneels!!

W.C. Fields fans know his famous expletive.

GODFREY DANIELS!

It turned up as the title of a pop culture book (remember when big publishers actually issued them??)

Tributes to Fields' version of "God Damn It" include many a bar-restaurant named for the mythical Mr. Daniels.

The most famous arrived in the 70's, at the height of the Fields revival, owned by two Fields fans, Dave Fry and Cindy Dinsmore:

Today March 14, the sad news that a Belgian cardinal with a similar-sounding name has died, age 85.

"So," you say, "Daniels is a common last name isn't it? Surely there have been Americans named Godfrey Daniels?"

Yes, but don't call me Surely.

I don't have pictures of them but...records show that a

GODFREY DANIELS died in Collier, Florida, 1971.

GODFREY DANIELS died in Leflore, Mississippi, 2001

GODFREY DANIELS died in Battle Creek, Michigan, 2002.

among a few others. And a GODFREY DANIEL died in Saint Louis in 1970.

In 1972, a group called GODFREY DANIEL issued an album called "Take a Sad Song" on Atlantic. Ahead of their time, or maybe behind the times, the idea was to create doo-wop cover versions of current hits, including "Let it Be" (The Beatles song done fairly straight) and "Whole Lotta Love" (Led Zep done with a more comical duet between the bass and the tenor). The musicians were not credit. Some say some moonlighting guys from the Amboy Dukes were behind it.