Martin Mull, Comedian and Actor on 'Arrested Development' and 'Roseanne,' Dies at 80: NPR, His initial introduction to the stage was as a musician, composing the 1970 semi-hit "A Young lady Named Johnny Money" for vocalist Jane Morgan. He would join music and parody in a demonstration that he brought to hip Hollywood clubs during the 1970s. "In 1976, I was a guitarist and jokester performing at the Roxy on the Dusk Strip when Norman Lear came in and heard me," Ponder told The Related Press in 1980. "He cast me as the spouse blender in 'Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman.' after four months, I was veered off to do my own show." His experience on the Strip was honored in the 1973 nation rock exemplary "Solitary LA Cowpoke", in which the Riders of the Purple Sage gave him a yell out alongside music greats Kris Kristofferson and Rita Coolidge."I know Kris, Rita and Marty Think about hang out at the Singer," the melody goes.