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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Attack of the One-Hit Wonders: “Rock On” – David Essex
For American audiences, the David Essex story is rather short and fairly typical of one-hit wonders. He appeared out of nowhere, starring in a film about 1950’s rock & rollers called That’ll Be the Day.…
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Scarborough Fair: The Story Behind the Song
Most of us know that virtually all of Simon & Garfunkel’s hits of the late 60s and early 70s were written by Paul Simon, but did you know one of their very biggest not only…
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Supergroups of the Sixties - The Rascals
For two and half years, the Rascals were one of the biggest acts in rock. Then, towards the end of 1968, the hits just stopped coming. Why? Nobody knows. The nucleus of the band started…
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2026 Halloween Costume Winner!
Come on. How could anybody else compete wth this?
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Revenge of the One-Hit Wonders; "Wipe Out" by the Safaris
One of the most iconic of all surf instrumentals, “Wipe Out” by the Safaris, almost never came to be. The song was composed and recorded on the spot when the band was in the Pal…
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The Story Behind the Song – “Runaround Sue” (1961)
“Runaround Sue,” the rock classic that topped the charts in 1961, was Dion’s only #1 song (despite having 32 other records hit the charts) and has since gone on to become an enduring classic of…