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   Terry Melcher, surfin'-era performer, songwriter   
      
   By Myrna Oliver   
   Los Angeles Times   
   Posted November 21 2004   
      
   LOS ANGELES · Terry Melcher, surfin'-era singer, songwriter and   
   recording executive who produced the Byrds' No. 1 hits Mr. Tambourine   
   Man and Turn, Turn, Turn and co-wrote The Beach Boys' well-loved   
   Kokomo, has died. He was 62.   
      
   Melcher, who also worked on several projects with his mother, actress   
   and singer Doris Day, died Friday night in his Beverly Hills, Calif.,   
   home of cancer, publicist Linda Dozoretz said Saturday   
   	   
   		   
   Helping to shape the California surf, rock, and folk music scene in   
   the 1960s, the multifaceted musician sang background, played piano,   
   wrote lyrics, composed music and produced records and shows including   
   the Monterey Pop Festival.   
      
   During his famous mother's filmmaking heyday, he often composed songs   
   for her projects, including the title ballad Move Over, Darling for   
   her 1963 movie with James Garner and Polly Bergen. He also was an   
   executive producer of her CBS television series, The Doris Day Show   
   from 1968 to 1972, and engineered her return to television in the   
   `mid-1980s with the show Doris Day's Best Friends.   
      
   In the early 1960s, Melcher formed Bruce & Terry with Bruce Johnston,   
   who later joined the Beach Boys, and had hits with Custom Machine and   
   Summer Means Fun.   
      
   The duo also formed The Rip Chords and recorded such successes as the   
   top 10 Hey, Little Cobra, which they released in an album, along with   
   the album Other Hot Rod Hits.   
      
   Subsequently, Melcher issued two less successful solo albums, Terry   
   Melcher and Royal Flush. He also performed backup on albums of his   
   friends, the Beach Boys, including their successful Pet Sounds.   
      
   In the mid-1960s, Melcher became a staff producer for Columbia Records   
   and hit his stride when he was assigned to work with a new band called   
   the Byrds. He helped craft their fusion of rock and folk into a new   
   and immensely popular sound, and produced their definitive versions of   
   Bob Dylan's Mr. Tambourine Man and Pete Seeger's Turn, Turn, Turn, as   
   well as later albums including Ballad of Easy Rider.   
      
   The young producerwent on to turn the rag-tag garage band Paul Revere   
   and the Raiders into a mainstream pop group. He wrote such hits for   
   them as Him or Me -- What's It Gonna Be? and The Great Airplane   
   Strike.   
      
   Other well-known artists relying on the Melcher touch included the   
   Mamas and the Papas, Bobby Darin and Glen Campbell.   
      
   He licensed and marketed his mother's record, broadcast and video   
   properties, and helped operate her nonprofit organizations, the Doris   
   Day Animal League and Doris Day Animal Foundation.   
      
   Born Feb. 8, 1942 in New York City to Day and her first husband,   
   trombonist Al Jorden, Melcher was adopted 10 years later by her third   
   husband, Martin Melcher, and took his surname.   
      
   He is survived by Day, wife Terese and a son from a previous marriage,   
   Ryan.   
      
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