 Reeves dies in a plane crash 29 days later. 2007, High Zaret, last of the Tin Pan Alley lyricists who had little success with most of his compositions, except for a tune called Unchained Melody, dies in Westport, Connecticut. Unchained Melody has been recorded over 300 times by the likes of Roy Hamilton, Elvis Presley, Vito and the Salutations, Leigh-Anne Rimes, and the Righteous Brothers. And