RIP Trini Lopez

Variety

By Pat Saperstein

August 11, 2020

Trini Lopez, Singer and Actor in ‘The Dirty Dozen,’ Dies of COVID-19 at 83

Trini Lopez, the pop singer and guitarist who also acted in Robert Aldrich’s “The Dirty Dozen,” died Monday of complications from COVID-19.

Palm Springs Life magazine reported his death. He was a longtime resident of the desert. Filmmakers P. David Ebersole and Todd Hughes had recently completed a documentary about his life.

Born Trinidad Lopez III in Dallas, Texas, his parents were both from Mexico. Lopez started playing in bands at 15 and had a first hit with a cover of ‘If I Had a Hammer,” from his first album in 1963, followed by “Lemon Tree” in 1965.

He regularly performed in Las Vegas and had more hits with “I’m Comin’ Home, Cindy,” “Sally Was a Good Old Girl,” “Michael,” “Gonna Get Along Without Ya’ Now” and “The Bramble Bush.”

During the height of his popularity in the mid-1960s, he designed two guitars for the Gibson Guitar company which remain collector’s items among musicians.

Lopez also appeared on television in “Adam-12” and “The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries.”⁠

LOPEZ, Trini (Trinidad Lopez III)

Born: 5/15/1937, Dallas, Texas, U.S.A.

Died: 8/?/2020, Palm Springs, California, U.S.A.

Trini Lopez’s westerns – singer:

There Was a Crooked Man… - 1970 [main theme song]