The singer and songwriter, who died on Friday at 86, gave voice to teenage dreams, then executed one of music’s most unexpected comebacks.

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He sang and co-wrote some of the definitive teenage anthems of the 1950s and early ’60s, including “Breaking Up Is Hard to Do,” and then reinvented his career in the ’70s.

Chris Janson's top-20 hit "Me & a Beer" was inspired by the friends he surrounds himself with."It's a blue-collar anthem for ...