Edd Byrnes, Bobby Comstock and others RIP

The New Year has started much like the old one finished, with several music-related deaths already.
'Ginchiest' of these is that of actor Edd Byrnes, aged 87, who found fame as the comb carrying Kookie in '77 Sunset Strip'. With his cool jive talk and hipster lingo he became a teen idol and, although not much of a singer, he had a hit with Connie Stevens on 'Kookie, Kookie, Lend Me Your Comb' and had a couple of EPs released in the UK based on a US album. His acting career was impacted by being type cast as Kookie, but he appeared in dozens of TV shows and movies over a long period. He appeared as the Dick Clark style DJ in 'Grease', was the role model for the Fonz and was ranked number five in a TV Guide list of the greatest TV teen idols in 2005.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MT9QZBGyXjU

Another death announced this week is that of Bobby Comstock, aged 78, whose recording of Let's Stomp' was something of a late rock and roll classic. After forming a band called The Counts, he had success with a cover of the Patti Page hit 'Tennessee Waltz' in 1959 and the follow up, 'Jambalaya', was also a minor US hit. 'Let's Stomp' followed in 1962, a song which was popular with UK bands of the time and was later covered by The Strangeloves. Later he had success with 'Your Boyfriend's Back', an answer song to the Angels hit, and recorded several singles for the Bell Label after briefly being a member of a band called Zebra.     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucMdrHL-HgU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mW5MLDinAlM
Bo Winberg (80) was lead guitarist with one of the most influential

instrumental guitar groups of the early sixties, The Spotnicks. The first Swedish band to have international success, they released several singles on the Oriole label in the UK, including 'Hava Nagila' and 'Orange Blossom Special' plus several EPs and LPs recorded on tour in London, Spain and Berlin. Bo was highly regarded as a guitarist and went on to lead versions of the Spotnicks well after the craze for guitar groups had faded.     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DhLnuh7TQI
Another to have died, at the age of 75, is Marty Grebb who was a member of US rock band The Buckinghams, who hit with 'Kind Of a Drag' in 1965 (prior to him joining). Later he became a producer and also toured with the Bonnie Raitt band for 25 years.    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hq1fpN1qWv8
Also Detroit soul singer Lorraine Chandler who had a regional hit with 'What Can I Do' in 1966. She wrote several songs with Jack Ashford and in the mid 1980s had several unissued tracks released in the UK by Ady Croasdell.     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYD_VbZSrqI