Kin Vassy; Worked With First Edition, Other ‘60s Musicians

Kin Vassy, 50, who performed with Kenny Rogers and the First Edition in the 1960s and wrote songs for several other musicians, including Bonnie Raitt, Ray Charles, Anne Murray and Dionne Warwick as well as the First Edition. He also toured with Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention. In Los Angeles on Thursday of cancer.