Don Covay, an R&B singer and songwriter who wrote ... Paul Shaffer and Huey Lewis, among others, and art by Ron Wood. A collection of rare Covay recordings, Super Bad, came out on 2009.

Don Covay, who died January 31 in New York at the ... so it wasn't easy for a guy like that to have a career in the business and as an artist. It was much easier to do it as a songwriter.

Influential R&B singer songwriter Don Covay, whose songs were performed by ... While trying to make it as a solo artist and singer-songwriter he spent time as Little Richard's chauffeur and ...

Don Covay, a soul singer who recorded genre-defining 1960s classics such as “Mercy, Mercy” and “See Saw” and who wrote the song “Chain of Fools” for Aretha Franklin, died Jan. 31 at a ...

From “Mercy, Mercy” to “Chain of Fools,” Don Covay wrote some of R&B’s most powerful songs. Peter Wolf became a fan during his musically formative years and has continually paid tribute ...

Multi-talented singer/composer Don Covay lost his two-decades-long battle with debilitating illness resulting from a massive stroke. According publicist Don Brown, Covay died in his sleep on ...

NEW YORK — Don Covay, a singer and songwriter whose rhythm-and-blues compositions — among them “Pony Time,” “Chain of Fools” and “Mercy, Mercy” — became hits for a variety of ...

While trying to make it as a solo artist and singer-songwriter he spent ... Celebrating the Music of Don Covay. After a gap of 23 years Covay released his last album Ad Lib in 2000, which featured ...