Soul singer and songwriter Freddie Scott died of undisclosed causes last week. Music journalist Phast Phreddie Patterson has reported that Scott recently suffered a heart attack and his death my be due to complications relating to that.
Although he began his career as a songwriter for Columbia Records, Scott enjoyed quite a bit of US chart success in his own right in the late sixties, most prominently with the song 'Hey Girl'. Although his biggest hits came in that period, he released four albums in the last fifteen years of his life, most recently in 2004, and contributed a version of 'Brown Eyed Girl' to the 2003 Van Morrison tribute album 'Vanthology'.