Songwriter Aaron Schroeder Dies

Condolences to family and friends of hit songwriter AARON SCHROEDER, who died DECEMBER 2nd of complications from Alzheimer's disease in ENGLEWOOD, NJ at 83. 

SCHROEDER was best known for co-writing the lyrics (with WALLY GOLD) for an adaptation of "O Sole Mio" that became ELVIS PRESLEY's 1960 hit "It's Now Or Never."  He also co-wrote PRESLEY's "A Big Hunk O' Love," "Stuck on You," and "Good Luck Charm" as well as the theme for HANNA BARBERA's "SCOOBY-DOO, WHERE ARE YOU?," and founded and ran MUSICOR RECORDS, which released hits by GENE PITNEY, who SCHROEDER managed.

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