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January 3 – The Beatles begin their first tour of 1963 with a five-day tour in Scotland to support the release of their new single, "Love Me Do", beginning with a performance in Elgin. [1] January 4 – At Cortina d'Ampezzo in Italy, Dalida receives a Juke Box Global Oscar for the year's most-played artist on jukeboxes.
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Early in their run, Joey Vann got into a dispute with Joe Santollo causing him to leave the group. Without a lead, the group decided to hire a black lead singer sending them on a search through Jersey City's black neighborhood. They asked a man on a street corner where they could find singers around there, who directed them to a local barbershop.
The group hit the top of the charts in 1964 with "Chapel of Love," a song that Phil Spector, Jeff Barry, and Ellie Greenwich had originally written for The Ronettes. [1]The trio consisted of sisters Barbara Ann and Rosa Lee Hawkins, plus their cousin Joan Marie Johnson, from New Orleans. [2]
Throughout 1961 and 1962, he created a 14-voice ensemble, the New Christy Minstrels, by combining his trio with the Oregon quartet the Fairmount Singers, [4] the Inn Group (singers John Forsha, Karol Dugan and Jerry Yester), banjo player Billy Cudmore, folk-blues singer Terry Wadsworth, folk singer Dolan Ellis, and singer/guitarist Art Podell.
Jones was born in Newark, New Jersey, United States. [1] She started singing in her family's gospel group, the Jones Singers at the age of six. [1] Her first recording was "Lonely Teardrops" under the name of Linda Lane on Cub Records in 1963. [1]
The duo have reunited several times; their 1981 concert in Central Park may have attracted more than 500,000 people, one of the largest concert attendances in history. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Simon & Garfunkel won seven Grammy Awards [ 4 ] —plus four Grammy Hall of Fame Awards —and in 1990 were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame . [ 5 ]