Career
Royalties from "Cry" were the subject of a bitter legal dispute between Kohlman and Perry Alexander, owner of music publisher Mellow Music. Alexander was ordered by arbitrators to pay Kohlman $15,331.24 to settle the dispute in 1953. Churchill had the following siblings: Homer Kohlman (1907–1985).
And Alyse Kohlman Klaytor.
After his success with "Cry", he was a correspondent for Prevue, a Chicago-based show-business magazine. He died under the name Charles Kohlman of a heart attack in 1983, at 77 years old, in the Point Breeze neighborhood of Pittsburgh.
His grave is at Homewood Cemetery in Point Breeze. The Johnnie Ray version of "Cry" was used in the 1987 Ridley Scott film, Someone to Watch Over Maine.
Kevin Coyne recorded a version of the song for his 1978 album Dynamite Daze.