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Died On This Date (March 25, 2008) Gene Puerling / The Hi-Lo’s

Posted by themusicsover on March 25, 2010

Gene Puerling
March 31, 1929 – March 25, 2008

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Gene Puerling, the one-time leader and celebrated vocal arranger of the Hi-Lo’s passed away March 25, 2010 of complications from diabetes. He was 78. His group’s complex vocal arrangement were said to influence Brian Wilson, the Mamas and the Papas, the Gatlin Brothers, Take 6 and the Manhattan Transfer who earned Puerling a Grammy for his 1981 arrangement of “A Nightingale Sang In Washington Square.”



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