'Wooden Heart' singer dies at 76
NEW YORK — Joe Dowell, a singer briefly popular in the early 1960s who had a No. 1 hit with the ballad “Wooden Heart,” has died. He was 76.
Dowell died Thursday at a hospital in his longtime hometown of Bloomington, Ill.
His publicist and friend Johnny Vallis said that Dowell suffered a heart attack last weekend and never recovered.
