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"Sixty Minute Man" is an R&B record released on Federal Records in 1951 by the Dominoes. [1] It was written by Billy Ward and Rose Marks and was one of the first R&B hit records to cross over to become a hit on the pop chart. It is regarded as one of the most important of the recordings that helped generate and shape rock and roll. [2]
Billy Ward (born Robert L. Williams, September 19, 1921, Savannah, Georgia, died February 16, 2002, Inglewood, California [2]) grew up in Philadelphia, the second of three sons of Charles Williams and Cora Bates Williams, and was a child musical prodigy, winning an award for a piano composition at the age of 14. [3]
Following World War II, in 1945, Bednarik entered the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia at 20 years old, [11] [3] where he was a 60-minute man, excelling as both center and linebacker, [11] and sometimes as a punter for the Penn Quakers Football team. He married Emma Margetich in 1948.
"Can't Do Sixty No More", written and performed by The Dominoes, was a response to their own hit song from four years earlier (1951), "Sixty Minute Man". One of the longest answer record cycles was started by Hank Ballard and The Midnighters' (1954) R&B hit "Work with Me, Annie", and its sequel song "Annie Had a Baby" (1954).
When the Bama label folded, Gunter signed to Decca, and his 1951 duet with Roberta Lee, "Sixty Minute Man," was one of the first country records to cross over to R&B audiences. In 1953 he began working at a radio station, and also remade "Gonna Dance All Night" and recorded "Jukebox Help Me Find My Baby", both of which were issued by Sun ...
Subsequently, moving to Los Angeles, he took the stage name David James Elliott, having found an actor was already named David Smith. He appeared in the film Police Academy 3: Back in Training in 1986, and subsequently in the television series Street Legal, Knots Landing as Bill Nolan, and in 1993's The Untouchables as Agent Paul Robbins.
60 Minutes is an American television news magazine broadcast on the CBS television network. Debuting in 1968, the program was created by Don Hewitt and Bill Leonard, who distinguished it from other news programs by using a unique style of reporter-centered investigation.
Eastern Man Alone (ESP Disk, 1967) Voyage from Jericho (AK-BA, 1975) Live in Europe: Jazz Festival Umea (AK-BA, 1977) Saga of the Outlaws (Nessa, 1978) Sixty Minute Man (Adelphi, 1980) Folk and Mystery Stories (Sonet, 1980) Definite Volume 1 (Storyville, 1982) Definite Volume 2 (Storyville, 1984) Live at Green Space with Billy Bang (Anima, 1982)