Imus in the Mourning

Fred Imus, occasional guest of big brother broadcaster Don, has died at the age of 69. He was found in his trailer in Tucson in his latest attempt to gauge the efficacy of his cleaning lady. He wrote the 1976 #1 country hit “I Don't Want To Have To Marry You” for Jim Ed Brown and Helen Cornelius, but mostly fixed old cars when not selling salsa and t-shirts. Don always credited Fred for some of his success, including the idea to involve his producer Bernard McGuirk more in the show, which panned out well when McGuirk started a riff on the Rutgers women’s basketball team that Don joined in on, which got him fired from WFAN and MSNBC. Despite his prickly, and pricky, nature, every one of Fred’s appearances ended with the brothers exchanging unironic “I love yous.”