Free to Be songwriter dies

Singer-songwriter Carol Hall has died at age 82. The Texas native died on Thursday at her home in New York City. She had been battling a rare form of dementia, logopenic primary progressive aphasia, for the past three years, according to her publicist. Hall was known for writing tracks for the 1974 Free to Be ... You and Me album, including It’s All Right to Cry, Parents are People and Glad to Have a Friend Like You. She also contributed to its sequel, Free to Be ... A Family.