but I'm gonna go out on a limb and say this about "Weird Al" Yankovic: I think that more than the perfect rhyming scheme, more than the most ridiculous pun, more than music itself, what "Weird Al ...

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 ...

Derringer —whose work touched the careers of Johnny and Edgar Winter, Steely Dan, Neil Giraldo and "Weird Al" Yankovic ...

Hoochie Koo” and earned a Grammy Award for producing “Weird Al" Yankovic's debut album, has died. FILE - Guitarist Rick Derringer performs at Radio City Music Hall in New York on July 7 ...

Music legend Rick Derringer, who was best known for the 1960s hit “Hang on Sloopy” and the ’70s single “Rock and Roll, ...