Cole, a member of the Los Angeles Board of Education from 1952 to 1957 and a former president of the board, died Wednesday at her home in Los Feliz after a long illness, her family said. The son of an oil wildcatter, he was born in East St. He is credited with relaunching the career of Tina Turner with the album “Private Dancer,” which included “What’s Love Got to Do With It.” With partner Tim Gilbert, Carter strung together what he described as “meaningless nouns” that sort of rhymed (“Good sense, innocence, cripplin’ mankind/Dead kings, many things I can’t define…”), resulting in a landmark hit for the psychedelic pop group.Ĭarter went on to a successful recording industry career, first as a radio promotion executive for Atlantic Records in San Francisco and later at Capitol Records.Īt Capitol, he scouted and developed talent, working with artists such as Bob Seger, Steve Miller and Sammy Hagar. That success led Carter to a job writing lyrics for an instrumental track by a group called Thee Sixpence, later rechristened Strawberry Alarm Clock. 70 on Billboard’s Hot 100 list, according to “The Billboard Book of Number 1 Hits” by Fred Bronson. john carter before (most notably the rainy daze that acapulco gold, which hit 70 nationwide before program directors found out what acapulco gold was). He wrote the song “Acapulco Gold” (1967), which reached No. Carter, 65, a music producer, songwriter and manager who co-wrote the lyrics to the 1967 hit “Incense and Peppermints” by the Strawberry Alarm Clock, died of cancer May 10 at his home in Palm Springs, publicist Jessica Erskine said.Ĭarter was an English major at the University of Colorado when he began writing for a school band called Rainy Daze. THE RAINY DAZE - That Acapulco Gold - Uni 3002 - Mono- Psychedelic - Vinyl LP - 39.37. He co-wrote lyrics to ‘Incense and Peppermints’

Summers held records in certain classes of exotic cars built specifically for high speeds on the Salt Flats, some of which lasted until as recently as last year, according to his daughter.

The car is now at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Mich. They built the sleek Goldenrod, which is 32 feet long, 48 inches wide and 42 inches high, in a former vegetable stand in Ontario. A 1965 story in The Times described Goldenrod as a $250,000 car powered by four Chrysler engines capable of a minimum of 2,400 horsepower.

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