Bobby Wright, the singer and son of country music legend Kitty Wells who played the radio operator Willy Moss on the popular ABC comedy McHale’s Navy , died Tuesday at his home in Madison, Tennessee, his family announced . He was 84.

McHale’s Navy , starring Ernest Borgnine , Joe Flynn and Tim Conway , aired for four seasons (1962-66), and Wright appeared on all 138 episodes of the show that was set on the U.S. Navy boat PT-73 in the Pacific during World War II.

He also appeared with the rest of the cast in the features McHale’s Navy (1964) and McHale’s Navy Joins the Air Force (1966).

Wright recorded for Decca, ABC and United Artists Records from 1967-79 and had 21 singles on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart, with the gentle “Here I Go Again” peaking at No. 13 in 1971.

His other singles included “Lay Some Happiness on Me,” “Everybody Needs a Rainbow,” a cover of Terry Jacks’ “Seasons in the Sun,” “Lovin’ Someone on My Mind” and “I’m Turning You Loose.”

One of three kids, John Robert Wright Jr.…