Rick Derringer, who sang ‘Hang on Sloopy' and produced ‘Weird Al,' dies at 77 Throughout the 1970s and ’80s, Derringer worked extensively as a session musician, playing on albums by Steely ...

Rick Derringer, the pioneering guitarist, frontman of the influential, proto-garage-rock act the McCoys, and a Grammy-winning producer for Weird Al Yankovic, has died at 77.