NEW YORK — George Frayne, who as leader of Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen enjoyed a cult following in the 1970s with such party and concert favorites as “Hot Rod Lincoln” and “Smoke! Smoke!

Trojan guitarist John Tichy compares Commander Cody and The Lost Planet Airmen’s 1971 breakout to Elvis’ initial success in Memphis. “A deejay in California played “Hot Rod Lincoln” as an album cut ...

For your consideration, the life of the late George Frayne, an aspiring track star and artist turned rock and roller back during the tumult of the 1960s. You know him as Commander Cody, the pianist ...

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. But ...

George Frayne, who as leader of Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen enjoyed a cult following in the 1970s with such party and concert favorites as "Hot Rod Lincoln" and "Smoke! Smoke! Smoke!

George Frayne, aka pioneering alt-country rocker Commander Cody, died earlier this week of esophageal cancer at his Saratoga Springs, N.Y. home. He was 77 and his death was confirmed by former ...

The name George Frayne may not ring a bell, but his alter ego, a glib, piano-pounding bandleader named Commander Cody, became a minor rock star of the early 1970s, fast-talking his way through a pair ...

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 ...

Fabled guitarist Bill Kirchen will front Lost Planet Airmen and lend his sterling guitar skills to hits like “Hot Rod Lincoln.” Who: Bill Kirchen and the Lost Planet Airmen with Floyd Domino When: 8 p ...

NEW YORK — George Frayne, who as leader of Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen enjoyed a cult following in the 1970s with such party and concert favorites as “Hot Rod Lincoln” and “Smoke! Smoke!

George Frayne, aka pioneering alt-country rocker Commander Cody, died earlier this week of esophageal cancer at his Saratoga Springs, N.Y. home. He was 77 and his death was confirmed by former ...