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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...