Kelly also co-produced “We Are All Drifters: A Tribute to the Continental Drifters,” a 25-song, two-CD celebration of the band’s catalog.

The forlorn ballad of two drifters in love from the 1961 film, composed by Henry Mancini and written by Johnny Mercer, was also one of the first songs Ella Bleu Travolta learned to play when she ...