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Jerry Fuller, Songwriter-Producer Whose Hits Spanned Decades & Genres, Dies at 85

Jerry Fuller is dead. The songwriter for Ricky Nelson, Al Wilson and others was 85. He also wrote and/or produced for Collin Raye and O.C. Smith.

Jerry Fuller, who wrote and/or produced hits that spanned decades and genres, died of lung cancer on Thursday (July 18) at his home in Sherman Oaks, Calif. He wrote the group’s punchy pop hits “Young Girl” and “Lady Willpower,” which spent a combined five weeks at No. Fuller had four Hot 100 hits as an artist from 1959-61, the highest-charting of which (a rockabilly cover version of the standard “Tennessee Waltz”) reached No.

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