Dave ‘Baby’ Cortez, Hitmaker Who Seemed to Vanish, Is Dead at 83

His “The Happy Organ” reached No. 1 in 1959, but his pop stardom was short-lived, and his death in 2022, with an anonymous burial, remains a source of mystery.Dave “Baby” Cortez in 1959, the year his instrumental “The Happy Organ” reached No. 1 on the Billboard singles chart.