Clean-cut looking Jud (Justin Roderick) Strunk, whose adopted state was Maine, scored a big hit in 1973 with his sentimental ballad "A Daisy a Day," about enduring love. Strunk lived on a working farm near Eustis, Maine. He was a TV regular on Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In and also made appearances on The Tonight Show, Bewitched, Hee Haw and The Merv Griffith Show. With his Coplin Kitchen Band, featuring Glen Campbell on guitar, he recorded the album A Semi-Reformed Tequila Crazed Gypsy Looks Back.
In 1970 Strunk ran for a seat in the Maine state senate, losing by a narrow margin. A pilot, he experienced a heart attack in 1981 while taking off from a Maine airport and died at age 45 when the plane crashed.
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