Obituary: Nah, nah-nah-nah, nah-nah-nah, nah-nah-nah

Singer-songwriter Joe South, 72, has died. The cause of death was an apparent heart attack.

South's peak years were in the late 1960s to early 1970s with hits such as "Games People Play," "Walk a Mile in My Shoes," and "Don't It Make You Want to Go Home." His best song may well have been "Hush," which was brilliantly covered by the band Deep Purple. What a hook:



Can't get enough of that song.



After his brother died in the early seventies, South retired from show business for awhile. He did do some recordings later, but he never regained his earlier fame.

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According to South's website, he was born in Atlanta on Feb. 28, 1940. As a child he was interested in technology and developed his own radio station with a one-mile transmission area.

In 1958, South recorded his debut single, a novelty song called, "The Purple People Eater Meets the Witch Doctor."

South was an inductee in the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame and the Georgia Music Hall of Fame.