Annette Kleinbard was the female vocalist in The Teddy Bears, who, along with Phil Spector and Marshall Leib, had a 1958 hit called "To Know Him Is To Love Him". She later changed her name to Carol Connors and went on to co-write The Ripchords' 1964 hit "Hey Little Cobra", "Gonna Fly Now" (The Theme From Rocky), as well as the 1980 Billy Preston / Syreeta Wright duet "With You I'm Born Again".
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The Essential Boomer Album Collection – Led Zeppelin
If every girl you knew in college back in the day had a copy of Simon & Garfunkel’s Parsley, Sage, Rosemary & Thyme, every guy probably had a copy of this album, Led Zeppelin’s self-titled…
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Weird Scenes Inside the Goldmine: Elvis' Comeback
In 1968, Elvis Presley taped a "Comeback Special" for television that proved to be a huge success and helped restore him to popularity, but it almost never got made. Elvis was convinced that he didn't…
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The Essential Boomer LP Collection: Disraeli Gears (1967)
While their first album, Fresh Cream, delighted critics and the select few who were in rock’s then-vanguard, it was Cream’s second album, Disraeli Gears, that really propelled them to worldwide fame. Backed by the powerhouse…
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The Songs Lennon & McCartney Gave Away
While we all marvel at the astounding success the Beatles had when Beatlemania broke big throughout the world – landing multiple songs of theirs in the charts simultaneously, what makes their success even more remarkable…
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The Story Behind the Song: “Beach Baby” (1974)
The revival of interest in the music of the late 1950s and early 1960s that occurred in the mid-1970s hit Great Britain even harder than it did America. Bands like The Rubettes, Showaddywaddy and Wizzard…
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The Story Behind the Song: MacArthur Park
One of rock’s most famous songs had a long and strange journey to becoming a hit, not just once, but three times! It began when Bones Howe, the producer for the squeaky clean pop group,…