Jud Strunk

He died in a plane crash at the age of forty-five while testing one of the planes he had been working on. Frantz and Weymouth also worked with the Gorillaz in 2001 and 2002. After leaving show business, Strunk operated a small aviation business that restored antique aircraft. Tom Tom Club have made an appearance in the Talking Heads concert film, Stop Making Sense. Jud Strunk became a folk hero of sorts in Maine and in 1970, he narrowly lost the election for a Senate seat in the State legislature. The former song has been used as bumper music by the radio talk show host Jim Bohannon, due to the repeated chanting of his name, Bohannon, Bohannon, Bohannon, Bohannon. He had three more humorous songs that made it into the country music charts and toured with the Andy Williams Road Show. They began recording albums in 1981 and have enjoyed some success with hits such as "Genius of Love" and "Wordy Rappinghood".

In 1973, he wrote and recorded the song "Daisy A Day" that made it into Billboard magazine's Top Twenty on both the country and pop music charts. Tom Tom Club was a new wave band, a side project set up by Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz who were also members of the Talking Heads. After he learned to play the banjo, Strunk began entertaining locals and went on to wide recognition after appearances on national television network shows such as Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In and The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. in Jamestown, New York, he was raised in Farmington, Maine where as a small boy his showmanship became evident. Born Justin Strunk, Jr.

Jud Strunk (June 11, 1936 - October 5, 1981) was an American singer, songwriter, and comedian.