(AP) – Guitarist and singer Rick Derringer has died. The musician who shot to fame at 17 when his band The McCoys recorded “Hang On Sloopy” died Monday in Ormond Beach, Florida. He was 77. Derringer had a hit with “Rock and Roll, Hoochie Koo” and earned a Grammy Award for producing “Weird Al” Yankovic’s debut album. Derringer’s decades in the music industry spanned teen stardom, session work for bands like Steely Dan, supplying the guitar solo on Bonnie Tyler’s “Total Eclipse of the Heart” and producing Cyndi Lauper. In 1985, he produced the World Wrestling Federation’s “The Wrestling Album,” which would give Hulk Hogan his theme song, “Real American.” (Photo: AP)