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Merv Griffin, the one-time big-band singer, TV talk-show, game show creator, and business mogul passed away yesterday at the age of 82.

Griffin died at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles, where doctors said his cancer had spread to other organs. Although first treated for the disease in 1996, Griffin was hospitalized a few weeks ago with a recurrence. As he re-entered the hospital, Griffin joked that he was “ready for a vacation, but this wasn’t the destination I had in mind.”
Although he enjoyed a long run as a TV talk show host, Griffin will be best remembered for creating the television game show “Jeopardy!” in 1964. Although he sold the rights to the show to Coca-Cola, then part of Columbia Pictures, for $250 million in 1986, that program, as well as his other hit, “Wheel of Fortune,” are still airing and will be forever linked to Griffin’s name. Griffin also composed the tune played during the show’s “final Jeopardy” segment, a melody that is arguably as familiar as “Happy Birthday” to most Americans.

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