Jerry Jeff Walker, the country singer who wrote the 1968 hit "Mr. Bojangles," has died, according to a local report in CNY News.He was 78.
No cause of death was released. Born Ronald Clyde Crosby in 1942 in Oneonta, New York, the singer adopted the stage name Jerry Jeff Walker in the mid '60s and played in bands including The Tones and Circus Maximus before pursuing a solo career as a folk and country artist. "Mr.
Bojangles," a song about a tap-dancing drifter, has been covered numerous times by the likes of Neil Diamond, Bob Dylan, Sammy Davis Jr., Whitney Houston and Dolly Parton.
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