- Generally credited with inventing the "fuzz" or "feedback" guitar sound, which occurred when rehearsing his guitar solo on the rock song "Zip-a-Dee-Doo Dah" by Bobb B. Sox and the Blue Jeans in the mid-1960s. Halfway through his solo the guitar's speaker malfunctioned. He liked the distorted, faraway sound that came out of the broken speaker, and "fine-tuned" it to magnify it when he recorded the actual solo. The song was a hit, and many guitarists began copying his "fuzz" sound on their records.
- Tall, good-looking Grammy nominee and Gold Record musician/guitarist who has served as a writer, arranger, conductor, producer, publisher, and performer.
- He is the guitarist heard on the theme to The Munsters (1964)..
- Wrote the songs "Limbo Rock," "I Think I Love You" and arranged "These Boots Are Made for Walking." for Nancy Sinatra.
- Married briefly in the 1950s to singer/actress Joan O'Brien. His present wife, Jeanne Black, was also a singer. They first connected in the 1950s, but didn't reconnect until almost 40 years later. They married in 1999.
- Started performing with his mother and father, cowboy entertainers George and Billie Strange, on radio as a young boy and won a yodeling contest. Initially played trumpet but gravitated to guitar, and later became a staff guitarist and boy singer for CBS radio, only to become one of the finest studio musicians of his time (playing for, among others, The Beach Boys, The Monkees and The Ventures.
- Son of George Strange and Billie Strange. He played the trumpet first and then the guitar. He moved to Texas at age 16 where he performed in honky-tonks and dance halls before being hired by West Coast country artists like Spade Cooley and Tennessee Ernie Ford. After two decades in Hollywood, he moved to Tennessee in the early 1970s to manage a branch of the music publishing firm of Frank Sinatra and Nancy Sinatra. He was inducted into the Nashville-based Musicians Hall of Fame.
- Heard on the soundtracks of many Disney features, Strange also built up durable associations with both Elvis Presley and Nancy Sinatra as a writer and scorer and played themes for such TV shows as The Munsters (1964), Batman (1966) and Have Gun - Will Travel (1957).
- He is survived by his wife, Jeanne Black Strange of Franklin, Tennessee; a daughter, Kelly Strange Tomlin; two sons, Russell Strange and Jerry Strange; and several grandchildren.
- He was inducted into the Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum as a member of The Wrecking Crew in 2007.
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