Dave ‘Baby’ Cortez, Hitmaker Who Seemed to Vanish, Is Dead at 83
His “The Happy Organ” reached No. 1 in 1959, but his pop stardom was short-lived, and his death in 2022, with an anonymous burial, remains a source of mystery. [Source]
Publication Date:Origin: nytimes.com
Category: Cortez, Dave (Baby) (1938-2022)
Topics: mystery, source, remains, burial, anonymous, death, short-lived, stardom, reached, Organ”, Happy, “The, Vanish, Seemed, Hitmaker, Cortez, ‘Baby’
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/arts/music/dave-baby-cortez-dead.html