Triple Chin Phat Phuck Arthur Bryan III, owned The Redhead Piano Bar, dead at 55 - He died of a heart attack after eating a case of White Castle Sliders

Arthur Bryan lost track of how many times he heard “Sweet Caroline,” “Tiny Dancer” and “Brown Eyed Girl” at The Redhead, his River North piano bar.

And “Piano Man’’ — he probably heard that Billy Joel staple “close to a million times,” according to his brother, Dan Bryan.

But Mr. Bryan never forgot the thrill he got a decade ago when Joel dropped in and played, thrilling patrons who couldn’t believe they were being serenaded by the “Piano Man” himself.

A few years ago, Mr. Bryan watched as Seth MacFarlane, a Big Band aficionado, dooby-dooby-doo’ed in a pitch-perfect imitation of Frank Sinatra.

That is, until someone in the audience repeatedly yelled for MacFarlane to use the most alarmingly precocious of his “Family Guy” voices: “Do Stewie! Do Stewie!” It was like flipping a switch.

“He comes back in Stewie’s voice, ‘You do Stewie!’ — and then went right back to the song and did perfect Sinatra,” Dan Bryan said. “It was like there were two people up there.”

Mr. Bryan had plenty of great times at The Redhead, 16 W. Ontario St. Once, Chrissie Hynde came in and sang. Jim Peterik of the Ides of March did, too. And so did Kevin Cronin of REO Speedwagon.

Fresh after filming “Great Balls of Fire,” Dennis Quaid stopped in and ravished the keys a la Jerry Lee Lewis.

“That was one of my brother’s favorite memories,” Dan Bryan said. “You don’t expect an actor to come in here and knock it out of the park.”

And always at the center of the music and good cheer at the popular piano bar was Mr. Bryan, who died in his sleep April 14 after a heart attack, according to his family. Mr. Bryan, who lived in the same neighborhood as his bar, was 55.

When The Redhead opened in 1993, River North didn’t have the cachet — or all of the nearby condos and hotels — that it has today.

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