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Dee continued to record and issue solo recordings from the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s, including a song he wrote with original Starliters David Brigati and Larry Vernieri entitled "How Can I Forget", which was released under the name Joey Dee and the New Starliters. [1] He continued to travel and make personal appearances with various Starliters.
Stanley Beckford (1942–2007) was a Jamaican born Mento singer, songwriter, and four time Jamaica Independence Festival song contest winner who recorded as a solo artist and with the bands The Starlights/Starlites, Stanley and the Turbines, and Stanley and the Astronauts.
"Soldering" is a song written by Ewart Beckford & Alvin Ranglin, [1] and originally released by the Starlights featuring Stanley Beckford in 1975. Other artists who recorded it include Desmond Dekker, the Specials, and Hall & Oates. About a woman's choosiness, the title is a euphemism for sexual intercourse.
"Peppermint Twist" is a song written by Joey Dee and Henry Glover, recorded and released by Joey Dee and the Starliters in 1961. [1] Capitalizing on the Twist dance craze and the nightclub in which Dee performed ("The Peppermint Lounge"), the song hit No.1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 in early 1962.
The song reached the lower echelons of the U.S. charts that year, [1] and featured LaRue literally breaking down into a fit of crying jags over a lost love. Their lone other charting hit was for Mascot Records in 1962, a tune called "I Found Out Too Late" which reached #17 on the R&B charts. [2] By 1963 the group was defunct.
Starlight (band), an alias used by Italian band Black Box for their hit single "Numero Uno" The Starlight , a bar and concert venue in Fort Collins, Colorado, US The Starlights, the backup singers in Taylor Swift 's touring band
The Starlighters, with Jo Stafford (left)The Starlighters were an American singing group of the mid-20th century of the late 1940s and 1950s.. The group was formed in 1946, the members being Pauline Byrns (1917-1990), Vince Degen, [Tony Paris, Howard Hudson, and a young Andy Williams (1927-2012), who continued on in subsequent decades with a famous musical career and hosting a longtime variety ...
Starlight Express is a 1984 musical with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Richard Stilgoe. [1] It tells the story of a young but obsolete steam engine, Rusty, who races in a championship against modern locomotives of diesel and electric engines in the hope of impressing a first-class observation car, Pearl.