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He worked in several factories before recording for Macy's, a small record label in Houston, Texas, in 1949. [5] His debut release, "She's So Fine" backed with "Blues As You Like It", was issued in January 1950. [5] For the follow-up, Garlow recorded his own song "Bon Ton Roula", a sixteen-bar blues with "an insistent, swirling rhumba rhythm ...
The basic tracks to "She's So Fine" were recorded in early 1965 at Armstrong Studios in Melbourne. Additional recording took place later when they returned to Sydney. [ 1 ] The single was a break-through hit for the Easybeats, gaining them nationwide attention.
Kim Vincent Fowley (July 21, 1939 – January 15, 2015) was an American record producer, songwriter and musician who was behind a string of novelty and cult pop rock singles in the 1960s, and managed the Runaways in the 1970s.
The song was first performed in 1930, but Nina Simone’s version featuring her sultry voice made it a 1950s hit. The jazz song also had a resurgence in 1987 due to a Chanel No. 5 commercial. JP ...
Ronnie Mack (known to his friends as Rocco) [3] grew up in Harlem, New York City, and loved music from childhood, teaching himself to play piano.By the mid-1950s he started writing songs, and also performed in a doo-wop vocal group, the Marquis, which unusually for the time featured a female lead singer, June Bateman (who later married musician Noble "Thin Man" Watts).
He's So Fine: 1958 — — Lonely Teardrops: 1959 — So Much: 1959 — Jackie Sings the Blues: 1960 — A Woman, a Lover, a Friend: 1960 — You Ain't Heard Nothin' Yet: 1961 — By Special Request: 1961 — Body and Soul: 1962 — Jackie Wilson at the Copa: 1962 — Jackie Wilson Sings the World's Greatest Melodies: 1963 — Baby Workout ...
The Aquatones are an American doo-wop group that started in the 1950s. [1] The group's lead singer was 17-year-old Lynne Nixon, a soprano who had had formal operatic training. The Aqua-Tones had one Billboard Hot 100 hit, entitled "You", for the Fargo label. [ 1 ]
But it’s based a song about sharecroppers, ‘Penny’s Farm,’ from the 1920s, which Pete Seeger had recorded in 1950! “At the time, Seeger was really upset by what he heard as the aggression.