The cause was complications of lung cancer, his wife, Annette Fuller, said to theNew York Times.
Fuller specialized in pop love songs.
In 1968, his output included O.C.
Jerry Fuller at a recording session in Los Angeles in 1970CBS via Getty Images
Smiths recording ofLittle Green Apples,which reached No.
2 on the Billboard chart.
He was drafted into the Army in 1962 and spent his two-year hitch stationed in New York State.
Fuller left Columbia Records in 1971 and became an independent producer.
He began writing country songs for singers including Ray Price and McEntire.
