Guitarist and singer Rick Derringer, who shot to fame at 17 when his band The McCoys recorded “Hang On Sloopy,” had a hit ...

Hoochie Koo” and earned a Grammy Award for producing “Weird Al” Yankovic’s debut album, has died. He was 77. Derringer died Monday in in Ormond Beach, Florida, according to a Facebook ...

His sole Grammy was for Yankovic’s “Eat It,” which had the ... He played on Air Supply’s “Making Love Out of Nothing at All.” In the mid-1980s he began working with Lauper, touring ...