Two days AFTER Thanksgiving and RIP.
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Wayne Cochran, who 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, died on Nov. 21 in Miramar, Fla. He was 78.
His son, Christopher Cochran, said the cause was cancer.
Wayne Cochran, Singer With High Energy and Big Hair, Dies at 78
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