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VAIL – In the late 1960s, some members of the Commander Cody Band were deciding on whether to go to grad school, or to follow a friend out west and pursue a career in music. The path that was chosen, ...

George Frayne, best known under his alias as Commander Cody and leader of the group Commander Cody and His Planet Lost Airmen, died yesterday at age 77 following a battle with cancer. "Early this ...

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – George Frayne IV, who spun the name of a 1950s sci-fi character into a lifelong alias as leader of the band Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen, died Sunday, according ...

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. (NEWS10) — Resident music legend George Frayne, leader of the band Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen, passed away in Saratoga Springs at age 77 on Sunday, September 29.

George Frayne IV, aka Commander Cody, performing with the band Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen at The Hangar on the Hudson in Troy in 2017. He founded the group in 1967 and led different ...

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 ...

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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 at ...

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!