Trini Lopez, an actor and singer who co-starred The Dirty Dozen actor and had hits with “If I Had a Hammer” and “Lemon Tree” — which was referenced in a popular Seinfeld episode — died today in Palm Springs. He was 83.
a few times; appeared on several game and talk shows and variety specials; and sang on Born Trinidad Lopez on May 15, 1937, in Dallas, he was given his big break by one Frank Sinatra, who signed the young singer to a long-term deal his Reprise Records. The Warner Bros imprint would release all of Lopez’s albums in the 1960s.
Lopez broke out as a singer with a version of Pete Seeger and Lee Hays’ “If I Had a Hammer,” which spent three weeks at No. 3 on the Billboard 100 in summer 1963. It was culled from the LPwhich went gold and spent 101 weeks on the Billboard album chart. The disc spent six weeks at No. 2, thwarted by Andy Williams’ Days of Wine and Roses and the debut by a 12-year-old prodigy known as Little Stevie Wonder.
The song and album would be the pinnacle of Lopez’s recording career, but he continued to chart albums into the late ’60s — three including his 1963 follow-upwould make the top 20 — and had lesser pop hits with “Kansas City” in 1963 and “Lemon Tree” two years later.
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