Fess Parker sings 'The Ballad of Davy Crockett'

Fess Parker sings ‘The Ballad of Davy Crockett’

March 18, 2010 1:53 PM PT

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Fess Parker, the actor who portrayed frontiersman Davy Crockett as envisioned by Walt Disney, died Thursday at his home near the winery he founded in the Santa Ynez Valley. He was 85.

Parker, who also played Daniel Boone on television, helped create the coonskin cap frenzy in the 1950s. OK, all of you baby boomers who owned a coonskin cap, raise your hand and sing along to the Davy Crockett theme song.

And click here to read Dennis McLellan’s news obituary.

-- Claire Noland

Afterword

Claire Noland

Claire Noland, who joined the Los Angeles Times in 1994, became editor of curated email newsletters in spring 2015. She had been in the Obituary Department since 2006, the last six years as editor. Before that, she was an editor in Sports. A California native and graduate of Mount St. Mary’s College in Los Angeles, she worked at the Antelope Valley Press, Los Angeles Daily News and Minneapolis Star Tribune. She left The Times in December 2015.