Jean Dinning, who wrote ‘Teen Angel,' dies at 86

[firepoint525]

Wonder why it bothered Elvis so much....
He was the more succesful artist anyway, so why pick on Pickett?

Elvis began a long dry spell with his hits, beginning after "Good Luck Charm", a #1 in Apr 62. The Boris hit reached #1 in Oct 62 and I firmly believe Elvis was in a slump, not from a lack of talent but due to poor management. His next #1 wasn't until "Suspicious Minds" in 69. But the Colonel was making money off Elvis, as was the film industry. Such a pity.

You are correct about the seven-year gap between Presley #1s. But he continued to have top 10 hits right through 1963. It wasn't until the Beatles arrived that he really went into a slump. "Crying in the Chapel" hit #3 for him in 1965, but I almost have to say that that one was a fluke for him. His real slump came when he went for about three years without a million-selling single, probably from "Crying in the Chapel" to (I'm guessing here) "If I Can Dream." The comeback special clearly showed that he still had it in him!

 

[firepoint525]

Was "Mrs. Miller" Mitch's wife? ;D I suppose she would have been on Columbia if that had been the case.

I would never have heard Senator Bobby's version of "Wild Thing" if I hadn't found it on youtube for a thread I posted here a few years back. It obviously became politically incorrect after the real Senator Kennedy was shot and killed.

Some of these others mentioned here, I have never heard either. Mention "I Want My Baby Back" and I think of the commercial for baby-back ribs at Applebee's (I think) a few years ago.

 

[hornet61]

>>I cannot beleive i was perverse enough to have bought Mrs Miller Lp on Capitol records, it was awful. >>

So you were the one. ;D

My other claim to fame beside owning both his albums is......I saw Tiny Tim at a concert, he was introduced in the audience about six months before he died...

Was "Mrs. Miller" Mitch's wife? ;D I suppose she would have been on Columbia if that had been the case.

I would never have heard Senator Bobby's version of "Wild Thing" if I hadn't found it on youtube for a thread I posted here a few years back. It obviously became politically incorrect after the real Senator Kennedy was shot and killed.

Some of these others mentioned here, I have never heard either. Mention "I Want My Baby Back" and I think of the commercial for baby-back ribs at Applebee's (I think) a few years ago.

As a matter of fact Vaughn Meader Had a Top selling LP "First Family" an impersonation of JFK...and both he and the LP disappeared ,never to be heard from again, after nov of 1963

 

[oldiesed]

if we are still on the topic of "sad songs" a real tear jerker would be 'I can nver go home anymore"...The Shangri-las.
On the subject of Mrs Miller....she once did a duet with Jimmy Durante. It was quite comical how she was to drag out a verse, while he would always cut the line short and want to move on to the next verse, and ofcourse he would shake his head while grabbing his hat[his personal style].

 

[firepoint525]

As a matter of fact Vaughn Meader Had a Top selling LP "First Family" an impersonation of JFK...and both he and the LP disappeared ,never to be heard from again, after nov of 1963

A childhood friend mine (well, his parents, actually) had that record, so I'm familiar with it, although I don't think I ever heard it all the way through.

It's worth noting that presidential impersonators since then have diversified, not "putting all their eggs in one basket." Fortunately, there have been no presidential assassinations so far during my life (just barely; I'm 47 now!), but even if a president lives through and serves both terms, there is not much market for impersonating former presidents. Rich Little impersonated Nixon, but also others as well. Dana Carvey impersonated Bush 41 and Ross Perot, and even commented around '93 that everyone that he impersonated was starting to leave the national spotlight about that time.

 

[hornet61]

As a matter of fact Vaughn Meader Had a Top selling LP "First Family" an impersonation of JFK...and both he and the LP disappeared ,never to be heard from again, after nov of 1963

A childhood friend mine (well, his parents, actually) had that record, so I'm familiar with it, although I don't think I ever heard it all the way through.

It's worth noting that presidential impersonators since then have diversified, not "putting all their eggs in one basket." Fortunately, there have been no presidential assassinations so far during my life (just barely; I'm 47 now!), but even if a president lives through and serves both terms, there is not much market for impersonating former presidents. Rich Little impersonated Nixon, but also others as well. Dana Carvey impersonated Bush 41 and Ross Perot, and even commented around '93 that everyone that he impersonated was starting to leave the national spotlight about that time.

Don't forget David Fry he did a great Nixon......JFK was probably the wittiest president ever, and Vaughn Meader did a great job playin' off the president.

 

[radioman148]

One of the first great impressionists was Frank Gorshin. He did a fantastic Kirk Douglas.

 

[kenb]

Another couple of sad songs... Moody River/Pat Boone and Ebony Eyes/Everly Brothers

 

[hornet61]

Another couple of sad songs... Moody River/Pat Boone and Ebony Eyes/Everly Brothers

"there is something on my mind"......might be the only open homicide song ever recorded

After you can't stand it no more,you go on down town
To the pawn shop and get yourself a pistol,and then you
Make it back up on the scene,where your love one and
Your best friend are now together..You go right in and
Bust down the door and shoot him..You can't shoot her
Because you know if you shoot her,all of your love and
Your long lifetime will be gone forever..and just as you
make it in your mind to forgive her,here comes another
One of your best friends through the door...This really
Makes you blow your top and you go right ahead and
Go on purpose to your heart,and shoot her...and realizing
What you just done,you say,"Baby please forgive me,I'm
sorry", and with her last dyin breath,she looks up at you
and say,

Doo,doo,doo Whoa-o-o , doo,doo,doo Whoa-o-o

 

[kenb]

Are you thinking of Frankie & Johnny/Sam Cooke??? Maybe not... I kind of remember a bluesy song with the lyrics you suggest, with a vochal sounding voice like Clyde McPhatter's (but not him). Perhaps the lyrics was from a Dickie Buchanon song like "Report to the Nation" , with spoof reporters Ned Nutley and Ed Brinkley... (Chet Huntley & Charles Brinkley who were on T.V. in the early sixties.

 

[hornet61]

Are you thinking of Frankie & Johnny/Sam Cooke??? Maybe not... I kind of remember a bluesy song with the lyrics you suggest, with a vochal sounding voice like Clyde McPhatter's (but not him). Perhaps the lyrics was from a Dickie Buchanon song like "Report to the Nation" , with spoof reporters Ned Nutley and Ed Brinkley... (Chet Huntley & Charles Brinkley who were on T.V. in the early sixties.

sorry, i forgot to mention the artist Bobby Marchan(former lead singer for Huey Piano Smith and the Clowns)..did the song "there something on your mind (pt2)" charted in the 30's somewhere.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nE7jEjTcX-4