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"Leader of the Pack" is a song written by George "Shadow" Morton, Jeff Barry, and Ellie Greenwich. It was a number one pop hit in 1964 for the American girl group the Shangri-Las. The single is one of the group's best known songs as well as a popular cultural example of a "teenage tragedy song".
A teenage tragedy song is a style of sentimental ballad in popular music that peaked in popularity in the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Lamenting teenage death scenarios in melodramatic fashion, these songs were variously sung from the viewpoint of the dead person's romantic interest, another witness to the tragedy, or the dead or dying person.
The song was written and composed by Brian Wilson, Artie Kornfeld, Roger Christian, and Jan Berry at Wilson's mother's house in Santa Monica. It was part of the teenage tragedy song phenomenon of that period, and one of the most popular such selections of all time. "Dead Man's Curve" was added to the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2008.
The lyric "Jonee jumped in his Datsun, drove onto the expressway, went head on into a semi." "Condition Red". The Goodees. 1968. Motorcycle crash under circumstances similar to "Leader of the Pack". "The Country & Western Supersong". Billy Connolly. 1979. A bus crash, ambulance and car crash.
"Running Bear" is a teenage tragedy song written by Jiles Perry Richardson (a.k.a. The Big Bopper) and sung most famously by Johnny Preston in 1959. [4] The 1959 recording featured background vocals by George Jones and the session's producer Bill Hall, who provided the "Indian chanting" of "uga-uga" during the three verses, as well as the "Indian war cries" at the start and end of the record.
Occupation. Singer. Instrument. Vocals. Years active. 1959–2009. Labels. Mercury, Imperial, Kapp, TCF Hall, ABC. John Preston Courville, known professionally as Johnny Preston (August 18, 1939 – March 4, 2011), [3] was an American rock and roll singer, best known for his international number one hit in 1960, "Running Bear".
Run Joey Run. " Run Joey Run " is a teenage tragedy song performed by soft rock singer David Geddes. It was a US Top 40 hit which peaked at No. 4 on Billboard's Hot 100 Chart in the fall of 1975, and hit No. 1 on the Cashbox Magazine's Top 100. [2] It was his biggest hit after making into the Top 40 one other time, with "The Last Game of the ...
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