George Frayne, better known as Commander Cody, whose roots-rock band had a top 10 hit in 1972 with 'Hot Rod Lincoln,' has died at 77.

George Frayne IV, who led the band Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen, a group that combined elements of the rock counterculture with a love for roots music in the early 1970s, died Sunday ...

Frayne, as leader of Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen, had a cult following in the 1970s with favorites such as "Hot Rod Lincoln" and "Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette)." ...

Resident music legend George Frayne, leader of the band Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen, passed away in Saratoga Springs at 77 years on Sunday, September 29. His music and countless live ...

He formed his band Commander Cody and The Lost Planet Airmen in 1967, and their revolutionary country sound incorporated other music genres including rock’n’roll, rhythm and blues, western ...

George Frayne, better known as Commander Cody, has been making music with his band, The Lost Planet Airmen, for decades. Their work sits prominently on Rolling Stone's Top 100 albums of all time.

The Airmen broke up in the mid '70s but the Commander (keyboardist George Frayne, the... Music Review: Commander Cody and His Modern Day Airmen - Live from the Island ...

Long before alt-country was cool, George "Commander Cody" Frayne and his Lost Planet Airmen blended hard-drinking honky-tonk, truck drivers' lachrymose laments, rockabilly, western swing and ...

George Frayne IV, who led the band Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen, a group that combined elements of the rock counterculture with a love for roots music in the early 1970s, died Sunday ...

George Frayne IV, the lead singer of Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airman who scored a hit in 1974 with “Hot Rod Lincoln,” died Sunday. He was 77.