Lyricist Hy Zaret dies at 99
Everybody knows the song. The lyrics. “Oh, my love, my darling, I’ve hungered for your touch a long, lonely time. And time goes by so slowly and time can do so much.”
Hy Zaret, an American lyricist and composer best known as the co-author of the 1955 hit “Unchained Melody,” died Monday, July 2, 2007, at age 99. His link to West Virginia? He once attended WVU Law School.
Today, Google listed 145 news articles, from all over the world, about his death. Read more there and and on Wikipedia.
“Unchained Melody,” hundreds of versions — Roy Orbison sang it. Ronnie McDowell. And of course the Righteous Brothers. Elvis. LeAnn Rimes. U2….
