Bill Doggett, a pianist and organist who was best known for his 1956 blues hit “Honky Tonk,” has died at age 80. Mr. Doggett, who died Nov. 13 in a Manhattan hospital, was, like many jazz musicians ...

NEW YORK -- Organist Bill Doggett, whose 1956 hit "Honky Tonk" was among the best-selling and most influential instrumentals in rock history, died yesterday of cancer, his family said. He was 80. Mr.

Note: This story was originally published in Newsday on Nov. 21, 1996. He played piano and organ with some of the greatest names in jazz and rhythm-and-blues. But Bill Doggett, 80, who died last week ...