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How did cowboy star William Boyd, famous as Hopalong Cassidy, die? âMinnie M. Lee, Union Bridge, Md. Boyd, who was born in Hendrysburg, Ohio, and grew up in Tulsa, Okla., died in 1972 at the age of 77 from complications of Parkinson's disease and heart failure. A silver-haired good guy who dressed in black and rode a white horse named Topper, Boyd transitioned from movies to TV in the 1950s. Since 1991, the Friends of Hoppy Fan Club has celebrated his life and career with a Hopalong Cassidy Festival in Cambridge, Ohio, near Boyd's birthplace.
It charted at #32. (thanks, Alan-S Brunswick, NJ). The boss of ABC Records hated this and did not promote it until it became a hit in England. This was the last song publicly performed by Eva Cassidy, who died of cancer about 6 weeks later in 1996. Cassidy became known after her death when a BBC radio DJ started playing songs from her album Songbird.