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Wayne Cochran as he appeared on the back cover of his 1967 album, “Wayne Cochran!”
Don Bronstein/Chess Records; thumbnail, Chess Records
Wayne Cochran
Died on November 21, 2017 at age 78
Mr. Cochran wrote a classic love-and-loss pop song while still in his early 20s, then morphed into an energetic rhythm-and-blues singer with a devoted following and an outrageous pompadour before finding a new purpose in a Christian ministry near Miami.
Notable Deaths 2017
Remembering Mary Tyler Moore, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lewis, David Rockefeller, Trisha Brown, Glen Campbell, Dick Gregory, Edith Windsor, Sam Shepard, Tom Petty and many others who died this year.