From "The Boston Globe":
David Blume, a Boston-born jazz musician and composer whose talent extended into the folk and pop music fields and whose varied career included journalism, died Wednesday . at his home in Sylmar, Ca., due to complications of a stroke. He was 74.
Mr. Blume's best-known song was the 1966 hit, ''Turn Down Day," recorded by the pop group, The Cyrkle on Columbia records, said his son, Howard of Los Angeles. Mr. Blume wrote the music originally as a jazz composition, he said. His writing partner, Jerry Keller, wrote the lyrics.
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David Blume, a Boston-born jazz musician and composer whose talent extended into the folk and pop music fields and whose varied career included journalism, died Wednesday . at his home in Sylmar, Ca., due to complications of a stroke. He was 74.
Mr. Blume's best-known song was the 1966 hit, ''Turn Down Day," recorded by the pop group, The Cyrkle on Columbia records, said his son, Howard of Los Angeles. Mr. Blume wrote the music originally as a jazz composition, he said. His writing partner, Jerry Keller, wrote the lyrics.
Read more at:
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ob...usician_composer_who_had_1966_pop_hit?mode=PF
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"What's That?" "French Horns!"
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