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Ronnie Dove
Ronald Eugene Dove (born September 7, 1935) is an American pop music, pop and country music singer who had a string of hit pop records in the mid to late 1960s and several country chart records in the 1970s and 1980s. Early life Ronnie Dove, the only son of Fairfax County, Virginia police sergeant Paul S. Dove and his first wife, Catherine Pearl née Smith Dove Rusk, was born in Herndon, Virginia, United States, his older sister is Marjorie L. Forrester. During his stint in the Coast Guard, Dove began his singing career in the clubs of Baltimore, where he was stationed. He formed a group, The Belltones, and they played Baltimore and the East Coast for four years. In 1959, they recorded their debut single "Lover Boy" on their own label. In 1961, they released a cover of the Buddy Knox hit "Party Doll" on Decca Records, but it failed to chart. They issued one more single on Jalo Records before the group broke up and Dove went solo. Career He went solo and signed with Diamond Rec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Happy Summer Days
"Happy Summer Days" is a 1966 pop single by Ronnie Dove. Background The single was Dove's 10th charting single for the Diamond label. It was the only Dove single to be released with a picture sleeve. Chart positions "Happy Summer Days" peaked at number 27 on the Billboard Pop Singles chart in 1966. It did considerably better on the Easy Listening Charts, peaking at #7. It was featured on his Ronnie Dove Sings the Hits for You album. Popular culture *In 2019, the song was featured in an Amazon Amazon most often refers to: * Amazon River, in South America * Amazon rainforest, a rainforest covering most of the Amazon basin * Amazon (company), an American multinational technology company * Amazons, a tribe of female warriors in Greek myth ... commercial. References 1966 singles Ronnie Dove songs 1966 songs Songs written by Wes Farrell {{1960s-single-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Right Or Wrong (Wanda Jackson Song)
"Right or Wrong" or "Right or Wrong (I'll Be with You)" is a song written and originally recorded by Wanda Jackson, an American country, rock, and Christian music artist. Originally, the song was a major country and pop hit for Jackson in 1961. A second version was released in 1964 that became popular by American pop artist, Ronnie Dove. Wanda Jackson version The song was recorded at the Bradley Film and Recording Studio on October 28, 1960 in Nashville, Tennessee, United States and was produced by Ken Nelson. It was one of Jackson's first recording sessions in Nashville. "Right or Wrong" was officially issued as a single in April 1961, peaking at number nine on the ''Billboard Magazine'' Hot Country and Western Sides chart. It also reached number twenty nine on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100, becoming her second top-forty single on that list. Thirdly, the single peaked at number nine on the ''Billboard'' Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks chart, her first entry on to the chart. "Right o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cry (Ronnie Dove Album)
''Cry'' is Ronnie Dove's fifth studio album (and sixth album release) for Diamond Records. History The album was released on the strength of his version of the Johnnie Ray song '' Cry''. The title song earned Ronnie an appearance on ''The Ed Sullivan Show''. The album also features the charting single '' One More Mountain to Climb'', which hit the charts in early 1967. Release The original album was issued in both stereo and mono. Columbia Records Club also issued the album at the time. The album was reissued on CD in the mid 1990s by Collectables Records Collectables Records is an American reissue record label, founded in 1980 by Jerry Greene. Greene also formed the Lost Nite and Crimson record labels. History It maintains a catalogue of over 3,400 active titles on compact disc, with thousands ..., and digitally in 2018 by Ronnie Dove Music. The album peaked at number 121 on the ''Billboard'' 200 chart. Track listing References {{Authority control 1967 albums ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Say You (Ronnie Dove Song)
"Say You" is Ronnie Dove's second single for Diamond Records. This J. B. Hicks penned track reached number 40 on the ''Billboard'' Pop Singles chart in 1964, becoming Dove's first nationally charted single. He went on to have 21 consecutive charting singles. It was included on his debut album '' Right Or Wrong''. Despite its rather modest showing on the Billboard Hot 100, the song made it to number one on Top 40 powerhouse CKLW CKLW (800 AM) is a commercial radio station in Windsor, Ontario, serving Southwestern Ontario and Metro Detroit. CKLW is owned by Bell Media and has a news/talk radio format. It features local hosts in morning and afternoon drive times, with ... on August 11, 1964. It was originally recorded by the singer Jamie Coe and released as a single a few years earlier. However, Coe's version did not ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cry (Churchill Kohlman Song)
"Cry" is a 1951 popular song written by Churchill Kohlman. It was first recorded by Ruth Casey on the Cadillac label. The biggest hit version was recorded in New York City by Johnnie Ray and The Four Lads on October 16, 1951. Singer Ronnie Dove also had a big hit with the song in 1966. Johnnie Ray & The Four Lads version Johnnie Ray recorded the song at Columbia's 30th Street Studio in New York City, with his version being released on Columbia Records subsidiary label Okeh Records as catalog number Okeh 6840. It was a No.1 hit on the Billboard magazine chart that year, and one side of one of the biggest two-sided hits, as the flip side, " The Little White Cloud That Cried," reached No.2 on the Billboard chart. This recording also hit No.1 on the R&B Best Sellers lists and the flip side, " The Little White Cloud That Cried," peaked at No.6. When the single started to crack the charts it was released on Columbia Records catalog number Co 39659. Stan Freberg satirized this song ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bobby Hebb
Robert Alvin Von Hebb (July 26, 1938 – August 3, 2010) was an American R&B and soul singer, musician, songwriter, recording and performing artist, best known for his 1966 hit " Sunny". Biography Hebb was born in Nashville, Tennessee. His parents, William and Ovalla Hebb, were both blind musicians. Hebb and his older brother, Harold Hebb, performed as a song-and-dance team in Nashville beginning when Bobby was three and Harold was nine. Hebb performed on a TV show hosted by country music record producer Owen Bradley, which earned him a place with Grand Ole Opry star Roy Acuff. Hebb played spoons and other instruments in Acuff's band. Harold later became a member of Johnny Bragg and the Marigolds. Bobby Hebb sang backup on Bo Diddley's "Diddley Daddy". Hebb played "West-coast-style" trumpet in a United States Navy jazz band, and replaced Mickey Baker in Mickey and Sylvia. On November 23, 1963, the day after John F. Kennedy's assassination, Bobby Hebb's brother, Harold, was ki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johnnie Ray
John Alvin Ray (January 10, 1927 – February 24, 1990) was an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. Highly popular for most of the 1950s, Ray has been cited by critics as a major precursor to what became rock and roll, for his jazz and blues-influenced music, and his animated stage personality. Tony Bennett called Ray the "father of rock and roll", and historians have noted him as a pioneering figure in the development of the genre. Born and raised in Dallas, Oregon, Ray, who was partially deaf, began singing professionally at age 15 on Portland radio stations. He gained a local following singing at small, predominantly African-American nightclubs in Detroit, where he was discovered in 1949. In 1951, he signed a contract with Okeh Records, a subsidiary of Columbia Records. On the ''Billboard'' charts, he rose quickly from obscurity with the release of his debut album '' Johnnie Ray'' (1952), as well as with a 78 rpm single, both of whose sides reached the ''Billboard' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Ed Sullivan Show
''The Ed Sullivan Show'' is an American television variety show that ran on CBS from June 20, 1948, to March 28, 1971, and was hosted by New York City, New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan. It was replaced in September 1971 by the ''CBS Sunday Movie, CBS Sunday Night Movie''. In 2002, ''The Ed Sullivan Show'' was ranked No. 15 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time, ''TV Guide''s 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time. In 2013, the series finished No. 31 in ''TV Guide'' Magazine's 60 Best Series of All Time. History From 1948 until its cancellation in 1971, the show ran on CBS every Sunday night from 8–9 p.m. Eastern Time Zone, Eastern Time, and it is one of the few entertainment shows to have run in the same weekly time slot on the same network for more than two decades (during its first season, it ran from 9 to 10 p.m. ET). Virtually every type of entertainment appeared on the show; classical musicians, opera singers, popular recording artists, songwriters ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aubrey Mayhew
Aubrey Mayhew (October 2, 1927 – March 22, 2009) was an American music producer, songwriter and music services professional. He was the sole owner of Amcorp Music Group in Nashville, Tennessee. Personal life Born in Washington, D.C., to Aubrey and Verna Mayhew, he served in the U.S. Army in the Korean War. His son Parris was a guitarist in the punk band Cro-Mags. Career in music In 1946, he became the booker and then the director of the country music radio program ''Hayloft Jamboree'' on WCOP (now WWDJ) in Boston, Massachusetts. In the early 1960s, Mayhew began working at Pickwick Records in New York City. At Pickwick, he produced one of the first memorial recordings of President John F. Kennedy after the President's death in 1963. He left Pickwick to start his own record label, Little Darlin', in 1966. The most successful Little Darlin' records were done by the country and western singer and songwriter Johnny Paycheck. Mayhew co-wrote some of Paycheck's songs. At the end of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herndon, Virginia
Herndon is a town in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States. Located in Northern Virginia, it is part of the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area, Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. In 2020, the population at the census was 24,655, which makes it the largest of three incorporated towns in the county. History The early settlement was named Herndon in 1858, after Commander William Lewis Herndon, an American naval explorer and author of ''Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon''. Commander Herndon captained the ill-fated steamer SS SS Central America, ''Central America'', going down with his ship while helping to save over 150 of its passengers and crew. In the 1870s, many Union army, Northern soldiers and their families came to settle in the area, taking advantage of moderate climate and low land prices. Originally part of the rural surroundings of the Washington, D.C. area, the town of Herndon developed into a hub of dairy farming and vacationing for area residents, aided by its ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sunny (Bobby Hebb Song)
"Sunny" is a soul jazz standard written by the American singer and songwriter Bobby Hebb in 1963. It is one of the most performed and recorded popular songs, with hundreds of versions released and its chord progression influencing later songs. BMI rates "Sunny" No. 25 in its "Top 100 songs of the century". Background and composition Hebb's parents, William and Ovalla Hebb, were both blind musicians. Hebb and his older brother Harold performed as a song-and-dance duo in Nashville, beginning when Bobby was three and Harold was nine. Hebb performed on a TV show hosted by country music record producer Owen Bradley. Hebb wrote the song after his older brother, Harold, was stabbed to death outside a Nashville nightclub. Hebb was devastated by the event and many critics say it inspired the lyrics and tune. According to Hebb, he merely wrote the song as an expression of a preference for a ''"sunny"'' disposition over a ''"lousy"'' disposition following the murder of his brother. Ev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bobby Darin
Bobby Darin (born Walden Robert Cassotto; May 14, 1936 – December 20, 1973) was an American singer, songwriter, and actor who performed Pop music, pop, Swing music, swing, Folk music, folk, rock and roll, and country music. Darin started his career as a songwriter for Connie Francis. In 1958, Darin co-wrote and recorded his first million-selling single, "Splish Splash (song), Splish Splash", which was followed by Darin's own song "Dream Lover", then his covers of "Mack the Knife#Popular song, Mack the Knife" and "Beyond the Sea (song), Beyond the Sea", which brought him worldwide fame. In 1959, Darin was the inaugural winner of the Grammy Award for Best New Artist, and also won a Grammy Award for Record of the Year, Record of the Year for "Mack the Knife" at the 2nd Annual Grammy Awards. In 1962, Darin won a Golden Globe Award for his first film, ''Come September'', co-starring his first wife, actress Sandra Dee. During the 1960s, Darin became more politically active and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
