Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Edd “Kookie” Byrnes, the 77 Sunset Strip actor whose wavy hair and penchant for combing it made him an early TV teen idol, died ...

Edd Byrnes, who played cool kid Kookie on the hit TV show “77 Sunset Strip,” scored a gold record with a song about his character’s hair-combing obsession and later appeared in the movie “Grease,” has ...

Edd Byrnes, a onetime teen heartthrob who parlayed his popularity as the hair-slicking hipster Kookie on the TV detective series “77 Sunset Strip” into a hit 1959 record, “Kookie, Kookie (Lend Me Your ...

In 1959, the hit song "Kookie, Kookie, Lend Me Your Comb" by Edd "Kookie" Byrnes was the rage. Yet the accompanying 1922 Ford T-bucket found itself in the spotlight when it "starred" along with Byrnes ...

The most famous head of hair in the nation last week belonged neither to Senator John Kennedy nor to Pianist Artur Rubinstein, but to a 25-year-old television actor named Edward Byrnes, who in three ...

Edd “Kookie” Byrnes, the 77 Sunset Strip actor whose wavy hair and penchant for combing it made him an early TV teen idol, died Thursday of natural causes at his Santa Monica home, according to his ...

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