Bob Dorough, who began his jazz career in the early 1950s as a pianist and arranger, and expanded to singing and composing songs laced with sardonic wit and puns, died on April 23. He was 94.
Dorough in the late 1950s was part of an ever-expanding group of clever creative writers who wound up in comedy, television and advertising. Steeped in jazz, either…
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