JUNE 22: Cyndi Lauper hits the planet, Barbara Lewis hits #2 and "Wipe Out" enters the charts...

JUNE 22:
It’s Cyndi Lauper’s 
61^th Birthday!!!

June 22, 1963: 

Barbara Lewis, born just outside of Ann Arbor, MI (in Salem Twp.) hit  #2 with her self-penned "Hello Stranger"

June 22, 1963:
The Safaris' "Wipe Out" is released in the US, where it will enter the Billboard Hot 100 two weeks later and reach #2 by mid-August. The record would also reach #5 in the UK. The song would be re-issued in 1966 and climb to #16 on the Billboard Top 40 and again in 1970 when it failed to chart…

BTW: Happy Birthday Cyndi

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July 8, 1908: Louis Jordan, quite possibly one of the originators of ROCK ‘n ROLL hits the planet!!! Louis Thomas Jordan (July 8, 1908 – February 4, 1975)

 

LOUIS JORDAN

A pioneering American jazz, blues and rhythm & blues musician, songwriter and bandleader who enjoyed his greatest popularity from the late 1930s to the early 1950s. Known as "The King of the Jukebox", Jordan was highly popular with both black and white audiences in the later years of the swing era. In 2004, Rolling Stone Magazine ranked him #59 on their list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time…

"What's the Use of Getting Sober" is a 1942 novelty song by Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five. The song was Louis Jordan's second release and the first of eighteen number ones on the R&B chart…

Louis Jordan in 1944…

Jordan had a lot of hits in the 1940s, another one being “Buzz Me” in 1946…

Open the Door, Richard in 1947…

Beans and Corn Bread is a 1949 jump blues song by Louis Jordan and Tympany Five, released by Decca…

In 1951, Jordan put together a short-lived big band that included musicians such as Pee Wee Moore and others, at a time when big bands were on their way out; this is considered the beginning of his commercial decline, even though he reverted to the Tympany Five format within a year. By the mid 1950s, Jordan's records were not selling as well as they used to and he ended up leaving Decca Records…BUT put out great tunes like…

And great tunes like this one…

Blues Guitarist B.B. King recorded an album called Let The Good Times Roll-The Music of Louis Jordan, as well as the songs "Let the Good Times Roll" and "Caldonia" Check out the original CALADONIA…

This cat was born WAY before his time…

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June 10, 1942: Janet Vogel of The Skyliners hits the planet!

Janet Vogel,
The Lone Female
in The Skyliners

The Skyliners were originally from Pittsburgh…

Jimmy Beaumont was the lead vocalist and their recording of “Since I Don’t Have You” is one the all-time great recordings in Rock ‘n Roll History…

The lone female member of the group, Janet Vogel (Rapp), provided the beautiful falsetto in the last chorus of the song: Her high notes in "Since I Don't Have You" are priceless……

 "Since I Don't Have You" peaked at #12 in March of 1959, but history has been kind to this recording as it tops many lists as the greatest doo-wop ever recorded…

Janet Vogel-Rapp died at 37 on February 21, 1980 in a garage under her home. The cause of death was Carbon Monoxide Poisoning and was ruled an apparent suicide…

Check out “SINCE I DON’T HAVE YOU” (The Movie)  

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May 23: Pop hits by Detroit's Bill Haley (1953) , The Everly Brothers (1960) and Millie Small (1964), in Tropical Jon's Evolution of Rock 'n Roll...

May 23, 1953: Bill Haley and his Comets'
 "Crazy, Man, Crazy" enters the charts  reached No. 12, becoming the first song generally recognized as rock and roll to be a pop hit…  

 May 23, 1960: The Everly Brothers' "Cathy's Clown" hits #1, eventually selling eight million copies worldwide, spending five weeks at number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart and one week on the R&B charts. It spent seven weeks at number one in the UK in May and June 1960. It would become the Everly Brothers' biggest hit single and their third and final US Number One.

The song is ranked number 149 on the Rolling Stone magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time… 

  

May 23, 1964: Millie Small's "My Boy Lollipop" enters the charts: It is unclear who played the harmonica - urban legend credited Rod Stewart for many years,
but he has denied it...

 

Even the “slow days” have their moments, in

The Evolution of Rock ‘n Roll…

           

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