Paul Harris/Online USA, Inc. 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

He helped start Tower Records, worked for Warner Bros. Records and A&M Records and promoted Edd Byrnes and Connie Stevens' "Kookie, Kookie, Lend Me Your Comb." By Mike Barnes Senior Editor Don Graham, ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. LOS ANGELES (AP) — Edd Byrnes, who played ...