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Bottom Line
Coordinates: 40°43′44″N 73°59′43″W / 40.729007°N 73.995162°W / 40.729007; -73.995162
The Bottom Line was a music venue at 15 West Fourth Street between Mercer Street and Greene Street in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. During 1970s and 1980s the club was a major space for small-scale popular music performances.
Owned by Allan Pepper and Stanley Snadowsky, the Bottom Line opened on February 12, 1974 and enjoyed a successful three-decade run, presenting major musical acts and premiering new talent. Bruce Springsteen played showcase gigs at the club and Lou Reed recorded the album Live: Take No Prisoners there. Harry Chapin held his 2000th concert at the Bottom Line in January 1981.
The Bottom Line hosted an extremely wide variety of music and musicians. Among the thousands who performed on its stage were Asım Can Gündüz, Linda Ronstadt, Van Morrison, Neil Young, Loudon Wainwright III, The New York Dolls, Lyle Lovett, The Electric Flag, Pat Martino, Todd Rundgren, Graham Parker, Horslips, Dire Straits, Chris Hillman, Dolly Parton, Tracy Nelson, Emmylou Harris, The Pointer Sisters, Betty Carter, Ravi Shankar, Prince, Ramones, Miles Davis, Bill Evans, Charles Mingus, Mose Allison, Muddy Waters, Mike Bloomfield, Paul Butterfield, Ray Barretto, Peter Gabriel, Al Kooper, Tom Waits, Melvin van Peebles, Barry Manilow, Neil Sedaka, Billy Joel, Patti Smith, Flo and Eddie, Hall & Oates, Toots and the Maytals, Cheech and Chong, Tower of Power, Tim Hardin, Roger McGuinn, JJ Cale, The Meters, Greg Kihn Band, Ry Cooder, Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes, Sam and Dave and The Ronettes.

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United States
The United States of America (commonly abbreviated to the United States, the U.S., the USA, America, and the States) is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south. The state of Alaska is in the northwest of the continent, with Canada to the east and Russia to the west, across the Bering Strait. The state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific. The country also possesses several territories in the Pacific and Caribbean.
At 3.79 million square miles (9.83 million km²) and with over 312 million people, the United States is the third or fourth largest country by total area, and the third largest by both land area and population. It is one of the world's most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, the product of large-scale immigration from many countries. The U.S. economy is the world's largest national economy, with an estimated 2011 GDP of $15.1 trillion (22% of nominal global GDP and over 19% of global GDP at purchasing-power parity). Per capita income is the world's sixth-highest.

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Andrew Loog Oldham
Andrew Loog Oldham (born 29 January 1944 in Paddington, London) is an English producer, talent manager, impresario and author. He was manager and producer of The Rolling Stones from 1963, and was noted for his flamboyant style.
Oldham's father Andrew Loog was a United States Army Air Force lieutenant of Dutch descent who served with the Eighth Air Force. Loog was killed in June 1943 when his B-17 bomber was shot down over the English Channel: he was buried in Belgium. Oldham's Australian mother, with maiden name Oldham, was a nurse and comptometer operator.
Oldham attended the Aylesbury School for Boys, Cokethorpe School in Oxfordshire, St Marylebone Grammar School and Wellingborough School in Northamptonshire. A self-proclaimed hustler who spent teenage summers swindling tourists in French towns, Oldham's interest in the pop culture of the 1960s and the Soho coffeehouse scene led to working for Carnaby Street mod designer John Stephen and later as an assistant to then emerging fashion designer Mary Quant.

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Bob Babbitt
Bob Babbitt (born Robert Kreinar in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American bassist, most famous for his work as a member of Motown Records' studio band, the Funk Brothers, from 1966–1972, as well as his tenure as part of MFSB for Philadelphia International Records afterwards. Also in 1968-1970, with Mike Campbell, Ray Monette and Andrew Smith he formed the band Scorpion. Babbitt traded off sessions with original Motown bassist James Jamerson. Over the course of his career, Babbit has played on over 200 Billboard Hot 100 Top 40 hits, for Motown and other labels as well.^{[citation needed]}
Among Babbitt's most notable bass performances are "Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours" by Stevie Wonder, "War" by Edwin Starr, "The Tears of a Clown" by Smokey Robinson & the Miracles, "Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)" and "Inner City Blues" by Marvin Gaye, "Band Of Gold" by Freda Payne, "Ball of Confusion (That's What the World Is Today)" and Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me) by The Temptations. He has participated in hundreds of other hits, including "Little Town Flirt" by Del Shannon, "I Got a Name" by Jim Croce, "Midnight Train to Georgia" by Gladys Knight & the Pips, "Scorpio" by Dennis Coffey & the Detroit Guitar Band, "Supernatural Thing" by Ben E. King and "(The) Rubberband Man" by The Spinners.

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Bob Seger
Robert Clark "Bob" Seger (born May 6, 1945) is an American rock and roll singer-songwriter, guitarist and pianist.
As a locally successful Detroit-area artist, he performed and recorded as Bob Seger and the Last Heard and Bob Seger System throughout the 1960s. By the early 1970s, he had dropped the "System" from his recordings, and he continued to strive for broader success with other various bands. In 1973, he put together The Silver Bullet Band, an evolving group of Detroit-area musicians, with whom he became most successful. In 1976, he achieved a national breakout with the album Night Moves. On his studio albums, he also worked extensively with the Alabama-based Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section, which appeared on several of Seger's best-selling singles and albums.
A roots rocker with a classic raspy, shouting voice, Seger wrote and recorded songs that dealt with blue-collar themes and was an exemplar of heartland rock. Seger has recorded many hits, including "Night Moves", "Turn the Page", "We've Got Tonight", "Against the Wind", and "Like a Rock", and also co-wrote the Eagles' number-one hit "Heartache Tonight". His iconic recording of "Old Time Rock and Roll" was named one of the Songs of the Century in 2001.

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Bobby Freeman
Bobby Freeman (born June 13, 1940) is an African-American soul singer, songwriter, and record producer who recorded for the Autumn Records label in San Francisco, California. He is best known for his 1958 hit "Do You Want To Dance?" and his 1964 Top Ten hit "C'mon and Swim". "Do You Want To Dance?" was covered later (as "Do You Wanna Dance") by Del Shannon, The Beach Boys, Bette Midler, John Lennon, Cliff Richard, The Mamas & The Papas and the Ramones. "C'mon and Swim" was written and produced by twenty-year-old Sylvester Stewart, later known as Sly Stone. In 1964, Bobby Freeman played nightly at the Condor Night Club in San Francisco where Carol Doda performed her topless Go-Go dancing shows.
Freeman began his recording career at age 14 with the Romancers who recorded briefly on the Dootone label. At 17, he scored a hit with "Do You Want To Dance?" and appeared on the pop charts with various follow-ups through 1961. In 1964, he was back in the Top Ten with the dance-craze hit "C'mon and Swim", which reached #5. The craze had cooled by the time he released his follow-up "S-W-I-M", but he continued to tour widely over the next few years. Mainly supporting himself as a singer in strip clubs by the late 1960s, he released another single in 1974 on Touch Records, but it met with little commercial success. He has performed at the Bay Area Music ("Bammy") Awards in recent years.

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Brian Hyland
Brian Hyland (born November 12, 1943, Woodhaven, Queens, New York) is an American pop recording artist who was particularly successful during the early 1960s. He continued recording into the 1970s. Allmusic journalist Jason Ankeny states, "Hyland's puppy-love pop virtually defined the sound and sensibility of bubblegum during the pre-Beatles era." Although his status as a teen idol faded, he went on to release several country-influenced albums and had further chart hits later in his career.
Hyland studied guitar and clarinet as a child, and sang in his church choir. When aged 14 he co-founded the harmony group The Delfis, which recorded a demo but failed to secure a recording contract. Hyland was eventually signed by Kapp Records as a solo artist, issuing his debut single, "Rosemary", in late 1959. The label employed the Brill Building songwriting duo of Lee Pockriss and Paul Vance to work with Hyland on the follow-up, "Four Little Heels (The Clickety Clack Song)", which was a minor hit, and the songwriting duo continued to work with Hyland.

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Curtis Mayfield
Curtis Lee Mayfield (June 3, 1942 – December 26, 1999) was an African-American soul, R&B, and funk singer, songwriter, and record producer. He is best known for his anthemic music with The Impressions during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and for composing the soundtrack to the blaxploitation film Super Fly, Mayfield is highly regarded as a pioneer of funk and of politically conscious African-American music. He was also a multi-instrumentalist who played the guitar, bass, piano, saxophone, and drums. Curtis Mayfield is a winner of both the Grammy Legend Award (in 1994) and the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (in 1995), and was a double inductee into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, inducted as a member of The Impressions into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1991, and again in 1999 as a solo artist. He is also a two-time Grammy Hall of Fame inductee.
Born on June 3, 1942 in Chicago, Illinois, Mayfield was the son of Marion Washington and Kenneth Mayfield. Mayfield's father left the family when Mayfield was five and his mother moved Curtis and his siblings into various Chicago projects before settling at the Cabrini–Green projects when Mayfield reached his teenage years. Mayfield attended Wells Community Academy High School. He dropped out of high school early to become lead singer and songwriter for The Impressions, then went on to a successful solo career. Perhaps most notably, Mayfield was among the first of a new wave of mainstream African-American R&B performing artists and composers injecting social commentary into their work. This "message music" became extremely popular during the 1960s and 1970s.

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Dave Edmunds
David 'Dave' Edmunds (born 15 April 1944, Cardiff, Glamorgan, South Wales) is a Welsh singer, guitarist and record producer. Although he is primarily associated with pub rock and New Wave, and had numerous hits in the 1970s and early 1980s, his natural leaning has always been towards 1950s style rock and roll.
As a teenager Edmunds first played with a band called The Edmunds Bros Duo with his older brother Geoff (born in 1940, Cardiff) in 1954, a piano duo. Then the brothers were in The Stompers later called The Heartbeats formed in c 1957 with Geoff on rhythm guitar; Dave on lead guitar; Denny Driscoll on lead vocals; Johnny Stark on drums and Ton Edwards on bass. Then Dave and Geoff were in The 99ers along with scientist and writer Brian J. Ford. After that Dave Edmunds was in Crick Feather's Hill-Bill's formed in c 1960, with Feathers (Edmunds) on lead guitar; Zee Dolan on bass; Tennessee Tony on lead vocals; Tony Kees on piano and Hank Two Sticks on drums. The first group that Edmunds fronted was the Cardiff based 1950s style rockabilly trio The Raiders formed in 1961, along with Brian 'Rockhouse' Davies on bass and Ken Collier on drums. Davies was later replaced by bassist Mick Still and other members were Bob 'Congo' Jones on drums and John Williams (stage name John David) on bass, that worked almost exclusively in the South Wales area.

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Dave Hull
Dave Hull, aka "The Hullabalooer", is a Los Angeles radio personality voted one of the top ten LA radio personalities of all time. Born Jan. 20, 1934, he admits to being 77 with his personal addition herewith dated Mar. 3, 2011.
Hull began his radio career in Armed Forces Radio in Casablanca, Morocco and in commercial radio in 1955 at KGFL in Roswell, New Mexico. He reached Los Angeles' KRLA in 1963 as weekend relief and fulltime there on Jun. 6, 1964. By the end of 1964, Hull's increasing popularity prompted one young female fan, Suzie Cappetta, to write and record a song entitled "Dave Hull The Hullabalooer", which quickly reached the local top 40 charts by early 1965. Hull became close with The Beatles during their 1965 and 1966 American tours. During that time, Hull taped approximately fourteen interviews with the band. He, along with Bob Eubanks, planned The Beatles' 1966 concert at the Chavez Ravine-Dodger Stadium. His work with the band earned him the honorary title of "fifth Beatle." Hull worked closely with The Beach Boys, The Dave Clark Five and The Rolling Stones during that period. In December 1965, Hull opened his "Hullabaloo" teen club on Sunset in Hollywood.

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Del Shannon
Del Shannon (December 30, 1934 – February 8, 1990) was an American rock and roll singer-songwriter who had a No. 1 hit, "Runaway", in 1961.
Del Shannon was born Charles Weedon Westover in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He grew up in Coopersville, a small town near Grand Rapids. There he learned ukulele and guitar and listened to country and western music, including Hank Williams, Hank Snow, and Lefty Frizzell. He was drafted into the Army in 1954, and while in Germany played guitar in a band called The Cool Flames.
When his service ended, he returned to Battle Creek, Michigan, and worked in a furniture factory as a truck driver and selling carpets. He also found part-time work as a rhythm guitarist in singer Doug DeMott's group, working at the Hi-Lo Club. When DeMott was fired in 1958, Westover took over as leader and singer, giving himself the name Charlie Johnson and renaming his band The Big Little Show Band.
In early 1959 he added keyboardist Max Crook, who played the Musitron (his own invention of an early synthesizer). Crook had made recordings, and he persuaded Ann Arbor disc jockey Ollie McLaughlin to hear the band. McLaughlin took the group's demos to Harry Balk and Irving Micahnik of Talent Artists in Detroit. In July 1960, Westover and Crook signed to become recording artists and composers on the Bigtop label. Balk suggested Westover use a new name, and they came up with "Del Shannon", combining Shannon Kavanagh with Del, derived from the Cadillac Coupe de Ville, his favorite car.

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Dick Clark
Richard Wagstaff "Dick" Clark (November 30, 1929 – April 18, 2012) was an American radio and television personality, best known for hosting American television's longest-running variety show, American Bandstand, from 1957 to 1987. He also hosted the game show Pyramid and Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve, which transmitted Times Square's New Year's Eve celebrations worldwide.
As host of American Bandstand, with his strong communication skills, Clark was a "primary force in legitimizing rock and roll," not only to teenagers, but also to America's adult population. The show gave many new music artists their first exposure to national audiences, including Ike and Tina Turner, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, Stevie Wonder, Talking Heads and Simon & Garfunkel. His shows were among the first where blacks and whites performed on the same stage and the live audience seating was desegregated. Singer Paul Anka claimed that Bandstand was responsible for creating a "youth culture." Due to his youthful appearance, Clark was often referred to as "America's oldest teenager".

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Elizabeth Linington
Barbara "Elizabeth" Linington (March 11, 1921–April 5, 1988) was a prolific American novelist. She was awarded runner-up scrolls for best first mystery novel from the Mystery Writers of America for her 1960 novel, Case Pending, which introduced her most popular series character, LAPD Homicide Lieutenant Luis Mendoza. Her 1961 tome, Nightmare, and her 1962 novel, Knave of Hearts, another entry in the Mendoza series, were both nominated for Edgars in the Best Novel category. Regarded as the "Queen of the Procedurals," she was one of the first women to write police procedurals — a male-dominated genre of police-story writing.
She was born in Aurora, Kane County, Illinois; and died on April 5, 1988 in Arroyo Grande, San Luis Obispo County, California. During much of her career she was represented by literary agent Barthold Fles.
Besides crime, Linington also took interest in archaeology, the occult, gemstones, antique weapons and languages.
Linington wrote under several monikers, including 'Anne Blaisdell', 'Lesley Egan', 'Egan O'Neill' and 'Dell Shannon'. Books she authored include:

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Frankie Ford
Frankie Ford (born August 4, 1939) is an American rock and roll and rhythm and blues singer.
He is the adopted son of Vincent and Anna Guzzo, who named him Francis Guzzo. He was born in Gretna, Louisiana, across the Mississippi River from New Orleans, where he still lives. Ford had a Top 20 hit in 1959 with "Sea Cruise" (b/w "Roberta"), sung to a previously recorded Huey "Piano" Smith backing track, released on Ace Records. The record sold over one million copies, gaining gold disc status.
Frankie Ford was featured as a stellar singer from New Orleans, on the Southern Stars poster created by Dianna Chenevert to promote him and historically document his contribution to the music industry. On October 12, 1983 USA Today reporter Miles White highlighted Ford as one of the famous entertainers on the poster, which helped give him more nationwide attention.
He was known as the "New Orleans Dynamo", and still spends about 200 days a year on the road.^{[citation needed]}
On May 16, 2010, at the Louisiana Music Homecoming in Erwinville, Ford was inducted into The Louisiana Music Hall of Fame.

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Hank Snow
Clarence Eugene "Hank" Snow (May 9, 1914 – December 20, 1999) was a Canadian-American country music artist. He charted more than 70 singles on the Billboard country charts from 1950 until 1980. This total includes the number 1 hits "I'm Moving On", "The Golden Rocket", "I Don't Hurt Anymore", "Let Me Go, Lover!", "I've Been Everywhere", and "Hello Love" as well as other top ten hits. He is a member of both the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame and the Music Hall of Fame.
Snow was born in Brooklyn, Queens County, Nova Scotia, Canada. He ran away from home to escape a brutal stepfather when he was 12 years old and joined a fishing boat as a cabin boy. When he was 14, he ordered his first guitar from an Eaton's department store catalogue for $5.95, and played his first show in a church basement in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia at age 16. He then sang in local clubs in and around Halifax. He married Minnie Blanche Aalders in 1935 and had one son, Rev. Jimmy Rodgers Snow.
A successful appearance on Halifax radio station CHNS led to Snow's audition with RCA Victor in Montreal, Quebec. In 1936, he signed with the label, staying for more than 45 years. A weekly CBC radio show brought him national recognition and, using the name, Hank, The Yodeling Ranger, and he began touring Canada until the late 1940s when American country music stations began playing his records.

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Hank Williams
Hank Williams (/hæŋk wɪljəmz /; September 17, 1923 – January 1, 1953), born Hiram King Williams, was an American singer-songwriter and musician regarded as one of the most important country music artists of all time. Williams recorded 35 singles (five released posthumously) that would place in the Top 10 of the Billboard Country & Western Best Sellers chart, including 11 that ranked number one.
Born in Mount Olive, Butler County, Alabama, Williams moved to Georgiana, where he met Rufus Payne, a black street performer who gave him guitar lessons in exchange for meals. Payne had a major influence on Williams's later musical style. During this time, Williams informally changed his name to Hank, believing it to be a better name for country music. After moving to Montgomery, Williams began his career in 1937 when WSFA radio station producers hired him to perform and host a 15-minute program. He formed as backup the Drifting Cowboys band, which was managed by his mother, and dropped out of school to devote all of his time to his career.

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Jeff Lynne
Jeffrey "Jeff" Lynne (born 30 December 1947) is an English songwriter, composer, arranger, singer, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer who gained fame as the leader and sole constant member of Electric Light Orchestra. He was later a co-founder and member of The Traveling Wilburys together with George Harrison, Bob Dylan, Roy Orbison, and Tom Petty. Lynne has produced recordings for artists such as The Beatles, Brian Wilson, Roy Orbison, Dave Edmunds, Del Shannon and Tom Petty. He has co-written songs with Petty and also with George Harrison, whose 1987 album Cloud Nine was co-produced by Lynne and Harrison. Among the many compositions to his credit are such well-known hits as "Livin' Thing", "Evil Woman", "Turn to Stone", "Do Ya", "Xanadu", "Strange Magic", "Sweet Talkin' Woman", "Telephone Line", "Shine a Little Love", "Mr. Blue Sky", "Hold On Tight", "All Over the World", and "Don't Bring Me Down".
In 2008, The Washington Times named Lynne the fourth greatest record producer in music history.

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Johnny Carver
Johnny Carver (born November 24, 1940 in Jackson, Mississippi) is an American country music artist. Between 1968 and 1977, he charted fifteen Top 40 hits on the Billboard country charts. His highest-charting single was a cover of Tony Orlando's "Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree", a cover that reached #1 for him in 1974. He also had cover success with his version of the Starland Vocal Band's "Afternoon Delight."
Carver grew up in a rural area near Jackson, MS, and sang in a local country gospel quartet with his family. He went on to form his own band, the Capital Cowboys, which were sponsored by an ice-cream company. Carver embarked on his first national tour in 1959, playing at clubs and fairs, and moved to Los Angeles in 1965, where he made regular appearances on local television and led the house band at the Palomino Club with such performers as Buck Owens, Johnny Cash, Patsy Cline, Linda Ronstadt, The Flying Burrito Brothers, Hoyt Axton, Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, and Jerry Lee Lewis.

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Juice Newton
Judy Kay "Juice" Newton (born February 18, 1952, Lakehurst, New Jersey, United States) is an American pop and country singer, songwriter and guitarist. To date, Newton has received five Grammy Award nominations in the Pop and Country Best Female Vocalist categories (winning once in 1983), as well as an ACM Award for Top New Female Artist and two Billboard Female Album Artist of the Year awards (won consecutively). She has several Gold and Platinum records to her credit, including Juice, Quiet Lies and her first Greatest Hits album. During the 1980s, Newton charted 14 Top-10 hits across the Billboard Country, AC, and Hot 100 charts, with many of the recordings achieving crossover success and six of the songs hitting the #1 position.^{[citation needed]}
Newton graduated from First Colonial High School in Virginia Beach, Virginia. In the early 1970s, Newton, Otha Young and Tom Kealey formed a band that would eventually be called Juice Newton and Silver Spur that was signed to RCA Records. The group released two RCA albums in 1975 and 1976, and scored only one charting country single with "Love Is a Word." The band signed with Capitol Records in 1977, but disbanded shortly after releasing one album.^{[citation needed]}

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Lefty Frizzell
Lefty Frizzell (March 31, 1928 – July 19, 1975), born William Orville Frizzell, was an American country music singer and songwriter of the 1950s, and a proponent of honky tonk music. His relaxed style of singing was an influence on later stars Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson, Roy Orbison, George Jones and John Fogerty. He is a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame.
Frizzell was born in Corsicana, Texas, but shortly after his birth he moved with his family to El Dorado in southern Arkansas, where the Frizzells remained until the early 1940s. Frizzell began playing the guitar as a young boy. By age 12, he was appearing regularly on a children's show at local radio station KELD-AM. The family returned to Texas when Frizzell was still a teenager, his music career receiving a significant boost when he won a talent contest in Dallas.
Called Sonny by his family, Frizzell got the nickname Lefty at age 14 after a schoolyard scrap, although his record company falsely suggested he had won a Golden Gloves boxing match.

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Lou Christie
Luigi Alfredo Giovanni Sacco (born February 19, 1943), known professionally as Lou Christie, is an American singer-songwriter best known for three separate strings of pop hits in the 1960s (at about the same times as Tommy Roe's three strings), including his 1966 smash, "Lightnin' Strikes" and his incredible 3 octave vocal range.
Sacco was born in Glenwillard, Pennsylvania and raised in suburban Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Sacco traveled to New York after graduating from Moon Area High School and found work as a session vocalist.
Susan Christie (Beatrice Hill), often mistakenly referred to as his sister, had a minor hit with the novelty song "I Love Onions", which peaked at #63 on the Hot 100 in 1966. The two are not related.
Sacco also recorded a few unsuccessful discs of his own for various record labels in both New York and Pittsburgh, including "The Jury" (as "Lugee & The Lions") on the Pittsburgh-based Robbee label, which achieved local success. "The Gypsy Cried" features the vocal style that would characterize all of Christie's biggest hits: verses sung in his normal register, and then a dramatic shift to his falsetto on the choruses. That song was released in 1962 on the tiny C & C (sometimes listed as Co & Ce) label and unexpectedly credited to 'Lou Christie' without Sacco's permission. Sacco had been working on a list of potential stage names, and he has stated that he hated the name for years afterwards: "I was pissed off about it for 20 years. I wanted to keep my name and be a one-named performer, just 'Lugee'."

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Max Crook
Maxfield Doyle Crook (born November 2, 1936) is an American musician, a pioneer of electronic music in pop. He was the featured soloist on Del Shannon's 1961 hit "Runaway", which he co-wrote and on which he played his own invention, the Musitron. He also recorded as Maximilian.
Crook was born in Lincoln, Nebraska, moving as a child to Ann Arbor, Michigan. He first learned to play the accordion, before taking up the piano, and by the time he was fourteen he had already built his own studio. In 1957, after studying at the University of New Mexico, he enrolled at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo where he formed a rock and roll group called The White Bucks, who released a single, "Get That Fly", on Dot Records in 1959.
In the same year he built a monophonic synthesizer, which he called the Musitron, out of a clavioline enhanced with additional resistors, television tubes, and parts from household appliances, old amplifiers and reel-to-reel tape machines. Crook was unable to patent the Musitron because most of its components were already patented products. He first used it for recording at a session at Berry Gordy's studio in Detroit, on an unreleased version of "Bumble Boogie" (the tune later recorded by B. Bumble and the Stingers) for which he also used a crude self-made four-track tape recorder. The sound of the Musitron was influential on other musicians and producers, including Gordy, Joe Meek, Ennio Morricone, John Barry and Roy Wood.

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Phil Phillips
This article is about the singer; for others with the same name, see Philip Phillips (disambiguation).
Phil Phillips (born Philip Baptiste, March 14, 1926, Lake Charles, Louisiana) is an American singer and songwriter, best known for his 1959 hit, "Sea of Love".
Philip Baptiste was encouraged to pursue a career as a singer after a school performance of a song called "Sweet Slumber". He performed with his brothers in a gospel group called the Gateway Quartet and worked as a bellhop before he recorded "Sea of Love" in 1959.
The song was arranged and produced by Eddie Shuler for neighbor George Khoury's Khoury Records. After three months of work on the arrangement, building up the vocal group and trying out different musicians, the song was ready for release. Baptiste changed his name to Phil Phillips, and dubbed his backing vocalists The Twilights. After a Baton Rouge disc jockey played the song repeatedly, the recording sold heavily and was leased to Mercury Records.
"Sea of Love" went to #2 in the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 pop chart and spent 14 weeks in the top 40, as well as reaching #1 on the R&B chart. In 1959 it sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc. Nonetheless, Phillips was paid only $6800, and received no further royalties for the song or its recording.

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Roy Orbison
Roy Kelton Orbison (April 23, 1936 – December 6, 1988) was an American singer-songwriter, best known for his distinctive, powerful voice, complex compositions, and dark emotional ballads. Orbison grew up in Texas and began singing in a rockabilly/country and western band in high school until he was signed by Sun Records in Memphis. His greatest success came with Monument Records between 1960 and 1964, when 22 of his songs placed on the Billboard Top Forty, including "Only the Lonely", "Crying", and "Oh, Pretty Woman". His career stagnated through the 1970s, but several covers of his songs and the use of "In Dreams" in David Lynch's Blue Velvet revived his career in the 1980s. In 1988, he joined the supergroup Traveling Wilburys with George Harrison, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, and Jeff Lynne and also released a new solo album. He died of a heart attack in December that year, at the zenith of his resurgence. His life was marred by tragedy, including the death of his first wife and his two eldest sons in separate accidents.

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Tom Petty
Thomas Earl "Tom" Petty (born October 20, 1950) is an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He is the frontman of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and was a founding member of the late 1980s supergroup Traveling Wilburys and Mudcrutch. He has also performed under the pseudonyms of Charlie T. Wilbury, Jr. and Muddy Wilbury.
He has recorded a number of hit singles with the Heartbreakers and as a solo artist, many of which remain heavily played on adult contemporary and classic rock radio. His music, and notably his hits, have become popular among younger generations as he continues to host sold-out shows. Throughout his career, Petty and his collaborators have sold 60 million albums.
Tom Petty was born and raised in Gainesville, Florida, and attended Gainesville High School. His interest in rock and roll music began at age 10 when he met Elvis Presley. In the summer of 1961, his uncle was working on the set of Presley's film Follow That Dream in nearby Ocala, Florida and invited Petty to come down and watch the shoot. He instantly became an Elvis Presley fan and soon traded his Wham-O slingshot for a box of Elvis 45s. In a 2006 interview on the National Public Radio program Fresh Air, Petty said that he knew he wanted to be in a band the moment he saw The Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show. One of his first guitar teachers was Don Felder, a fellow Gainesville resident, who would later join the Eagles. As a young man, Petty worked briefly on the grounds crew for the University of Florida, but never attended as a student. An Ogeechee lime tree that he planted while employed at the University is now called the Tom Petty tree.

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Wolfman Jack
Robert Weston Smith, known as Wolfman Jack (January 21, 1938 – July 1, 1995) was a gravelly-voiced American disc jockey, famous in the 1960s and 1970s.
Smith was born in Brooklyn on January 21, 1938, the younger of two children of Anson Weston Smith, an Episcopal Sunday school teacher, writer, editor, and executive vice president of the Financial World; and Rosamond Small. His parents divorced while he was young. To help keep him out of trouble, his father bought him a large transoceanic radio, and Smith became an avid fan of R&B music and the disc jockeys who played it, such as "Jocko" Henderson of Philadelphia, New York's "Dr. Jive" (Tommy Smalls), the "Moon Dog" Alan Freed, and Nashville's "John R." Richbourg, who later became his mentor. After selling encyclopedias and Fuller brushes door-to-door, Smith attended the National Academy of Broadcasting in Washington, DC. Upon graduation (1960), he began working as "Daddy Jules" at WYOU-AM in Newport News, Virginia. When the station format changed to "beautiful music," Smith became known as "Roger Gordon and Music in Good Taste." In 1962, he moved to country music station KCIJ-AM 1050 in Shreveport, Louisiana to be the station manager as well as the morning disc jockey, "Big Smith with the Records." He married Lucy "Lou" Lamb in 1961, and they had two children.

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For other uses, see Del (disambiguation).

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∇

Del operator,
represented by
the nabla symbol

In vector calculus, del is a vector differential operator, usually represented by the nabla symbol ∇. When applied to a function defined on a one-dimensional domain, it denotes its standard derivative as defined in calculus. When applied to a field (a function defined on a multi-dimensional domain), del may denote the gradient (locally steepest slope) of a scalar field, the divergence of a vector field, or the curl (rotation) of a vector field, depending on the way it is applied.

Strictly speaking, del is not a specific operator, but rather a convenient mathematical notation for those three operators, that makes many equations easier to write and remember. The del symbol can be interpreted as a vector of partial derivative operators, and its three possible meanings—gradient, divergence, and curl—can be formally viewed as the product of scalars, dot product, and cross product, respectively, of the del "operator" with the field. These formal products do not necessarily commute with other operators or products.

1 Definition
2 Notational uses
3 Second derivatives
4 Precautions
5 See also
6 References
7 External links

Definition [link]

In the three-dimensional Cartesian coordinate system R³ with coordinates (x, y, z), del is defined in terms of partial derivative operators as

Failed to parse (Missing texvc executable; please see math/README to configure.): \nabla = \mathbf{\hat{x}} {\partial \over \partial x} + \mathbf{\hat{y}} {\partial \over \partial y} + \mathbf{\hat{z}} {\partial \over \partial z}

where Failed to parse (Missing texvc executable; please see math/README to configure.): \{\mathbf{\hat{x}}, \mathbf{\hat{y}},\mathbf{\hat{z}} \}

are the unit vectors in their respective directions.

Though this page chiefly treats del in three dimensions, this definition can be generalized to the n-dimensional Euclidean space Rⁿ. In the Cartesian coordinate system with coordinates (x₁, x₂, ..., x_n), del is:

Failed to parse (Missing texvc executable; please see math/README to configure.): \nabla = \sum_{i=1}^n \hat e^i {\partial \over \partial x_i}

where Failed to parse (Missing texvc executable; please see math/README to configure.): \{ \hat e^i: 1\leq i\leq n\}

is the standard basis in this space.

More compactly, using the Einstein summation notation, del is written as

Failed to parse (Missing texvc executable; please see math/README to configure.): \nabla = \hat e^i \,\partial_i

Del can also be expressed in other coordinate systems, see for example del in cylindrical and spherical coordinates.

Notational uses [link]

Del is used as a shorthand form to simplify many long mathematical expressions. It is most commonly used to simplify expressions for the gradient, divergence, curl, directional derivative, and Laplacian.

Gradient [link]

The vector derivative of a scalar field f is called the gradient, and it can be represented as:

Failed to parse (Missing texvc executable; please see math/README to configure.): \nabla f = {\partial f \over \partial x} \mathbf{\hat{x}} + {\partial f \over \partial y} \mathbf{\hat{y}} + {\partial f \over \partial z} \mathbf{\hat{z}}

It always points in the direction of greatest increase of f, and it has a magnitude equal to the maximum rate of increase at the point—just like a standard derivative. In particular, if a hill is defined as a height function over a plane h(x,y), the 2d projection of the gradient at a given location will be a vector in the xy-plane (sort of like an arrow on a map) pointing along the steepest direction. The magnitude of the gradient is the value of this steepest slope.

In particular, this notation is powerful because the gradient product rule looks very similar to the 1d-derivative case:

Failed to parse (Missing texvc executable; please see math/README to configure.): \nabla(f g) = f \nabla g + g \nabla f

However, the rules for dot products do not turn out to be simple, as illustrated by:

Failed to parse (Missing texvc executable; please see math/README to configure.): \nabla (\vec u \cdot \vec v) = (\vec u \cdot \nabla) \vec v + (\vec v \cdot \nabla) \vec u + \vec u \times (\nabla \times \vec v) + \vec v \times (\nabla \times \vec u)

Divergence [link]

The divergence of a vector field Failed to parse (Missing texvc executable; please see math/README to configure.): \vec{v}(x, y, z) = v_x \mathbf{\hat{x}} + v_y \mathbf{\hat{y}} + v_z \mathbf{\hat{z}}

is a scalar function that can be represented as:

Failed to parse (Missing texvc executable; please see math/README to configure.): \mbox{div}\,\vec v = {\partial v_x \over \partial x} + {\partial v_y \over \partial y} + {\partial v_z \over \partial z} = \nabla \cdot \vec v

The divergence is roughly a measure of a vector field's increase in the direction it points; but more accurately, it is a measure of that field's tendency to converge toward or repel from a point.

The power of the del notation is shown by the following product rule:

Failed to parse (Missing texvc executable; please see math/README to configure.): \nabla \cdot (f \vec v) = f \nabla \cdot \vec v + \vec v \cdot \nabla f

The formula for the vector product is slightly less intuitive, because this product is not commutative:

Failed to parse (Missing texvc executable; please see math/README to configure.): \nabla \cdot (\vec u \times \vec v) = \vec v \cdot \nabla \times \vec u - \vec u \cdot \nabla \times \vec v

Curl [link]

The curl of a vector field Failed to parse (Missing texvc executable; please see math/README to configure.): \vec{v}(x, y, z) = v_x\mathbf{\hat{x}} + v_y\mathbf{\hat{y}} + v_z\mathbf{\hat{z}}

is a vector function that can be represented as:

Failed to parse (Missing texvc executable; please see math/README to configure.): \mbox{curl}\;\vec v = \left( {\partial v_z \over \partial y} - {\partial v_y \over \partial z} \right) \mathbf{\hat{x}} + \left( {\partial v_x \over \partial z} - {\partial v_z \over \partial x} \right) \mathbf{\hat{y}} + \left( {\partial v_y \over \partial x} - {\partial v_x \over \partial y} \right) \mathbf{\hat{z}} = \nabla \times \vec v

The curl at a point is proportional to the on-axis torque to which a tiny pinwheel would be subjected if it were centered at that point.

The vector product operation can be visualized as a pseudo-determinant:

Failed to parse (Missing texvc executable; please see math/README to configure.): \nabla \times \vec v = \left|\begin{matrix} \mathbf{\hat{x}} & \mathbf{\hat{y}} & \mathbf{\hat{z}} \\[2pt] {\frac{\partial}{\partial x}} & {\frac{\partial}{\partial y}} & {\frac{\partial}{\partial z}} \\[2pt] v_x & v_y & v_z \end{matrix}\right|

Again the power of the notation is shown by the product rule:

Failed to parse (Missing texvc executable; please see math/README to configure.): \nabla \times (f \vec v) = (\nabla f) \times \vec v + f \nabla \times \vec v

Unfortunately the rule for the vector product does not turn out to be simple:

Failed to parse (Missing texvc executable; please see math/README to configure.): \nabla \times (\vec u \times \vec v) = \vec u \, \nabla \cdot \vec v - \vec v \, \nabla \cdot \vec u + (\vec v \cdot \nabla) \vec u - (\vec u \cdot \nabla) \vec v

Directional derivative [link]

The directional derivative of a scalar field f(x,y,z) in the direction Failed to parse (Missing texvc executable; please see math/README to configure.): \vec{a}(x,y,z) = a_x \mathbf{\hat{x}} + a_y \mathbf{\hat{y}} + a_z \mathbf{\hat{z}}

is defined as:

Failed to parse (Missing texvc executable; please see math/README to configure.): \vec{a}\cdot\mbox{grad}\,f = a_x {\partial f \over \partial x} + a_y {\partial f \over \partial y} + a_z {\partial f \over \partial z} = (\vec a \cdot \nabla) f

This gives the change of a field f in the direction of a. In operator notation, the element in parentheses can be considered a single coherent unit; fluid dynamics uses this convention extensively, terming it the convective derivative—the "moving" derivative of the fluid.

Laplacian [link]

The Laplace operator is a scalar operator that can be applied to either vector or scalar fields; it is defined as:

Failed to parse (Missing texvc executable; please see math/README to configure.): \Delta = {\partial^2 \over \partial x^2} + {\partial^2 \over \partial y^2} + {\partial^2 \over \partial z^2} = \nabla \cdot \nabla = \nabla^2

The Laplacian is ubiquitous throughout modern mathematical physics, appearing in Laplace's equation, Poisson's equation, the heat equation, the wave equation, and the Schrödinger equation—to name a few.

Tensor derivative [link]

Del can also be applied to a vector field with the result being a tensor. The tensor derivative of a vector field Failed to parse (Missing texvc executable; please see math/README to configure.): \vec{v}

is a 9-term second-rank tensor, but can be denoted simply as Failed to parse (Missing texvc executable; please see math/README to configure.): \nabla \otimes \vec{v}

, where Failed to parse (Missing texvc executable; please see math/README to configure.): \otimes

represents the dyadic product. This quantity is equivalent to the transpose of the Jacobian matrix of the vector field with respect to space.

For a small displacement Failed to parse (Missing texvc executable; please see math/README to configure.): \delta \vec{r} , the change in the vector field is given by:

Failed to parse (Missing texvc executable; please see math/README to configure.): \delta \vec{v} = (\nabla \otimes \vec{v}) \sdot \delta \vec{r}

Second derivatives [link]

DCG chart: A simple chart depicting all rules pertaining to second derivatives. D, C, G, L and CC stand for divergence, curl, gradient, Laplacian and curl of curl, respectively. Arrows indicate existence of second derivatives. Blue circle in the middle represents curl of curl, whereas the other two red circles(dashed) mean that DD and GG do not exist.

When del operates on a scalar or vector, generally a scalar or vector is returned. Because of the diversity of vector products (scalar, dot, cross) one application of del already gives rise to three major derivatives: the gradient (scalar product), divergence (dot product), and curl (cross product). Applying these three sorts of derivatives again to each other gives five possible second derivatives, for a scalar field f or a vector field v; the use of the scalar Laplacian and vector Laplacian gives two more:

Failed to parse (Missing texvc executable; please see math/README to configure.): \mbox{div}\,(\mbox{grad}\,f ) = \nabla \cdot (\nabla f)

Failed to parse (Missing texvc executable; please see math/README to configure.): \mbox{curl}\,(\mbox{grad}\,f ) = \nabla \times (\nabla f)

Failed to parse (Missing texvc executable; please see math/README to configure.): \Delta f = \nabla^2 f

Failed to parse (Missing texvc executable; please see math/README to configure.): \mbox{grad}\,(\mbox{div}\, \vec v ) = \nabla (\nabla \cdot \vec v)

Failed to parse (Missing texvc executable; please see math/README to configure.): \mbox{div}\,(\mbox{curl}\,\vec v ) = \nabla \cdot (\nabla \times \vec v)

Failed to parse (Missing texvc executable; please see math/README to configure.): \mbox{curl}\,(\mbox{curl}\,\vec v ) = \nabla \times (\nabla \times \vec v)

Failed to parse (Missing texvc executable; please see math/README to configure.): \Delta \vec v = \nabla^2 \vec v

These are of interest principally because they are not always unique or independent of each other. As long as the functions are well-behaved, two of them are always zero:

Failed to parse (Missing texvc executable; please see math/README to configure.): \mbox{curl}\,(\mbox{grad}\,f ) = \nabla \times (\nabla f) = 0

Failed to parse (Missing texvc executable; please see math/README to configure.): \mbox{div}\,(\mbox{curl}\,\vec v ) = \nabla \cdot \nabla \times \vec{v} = 0

Two of them are always equal:

Failed to parse (Missing texvc executable; please see math/README to configure.): \mbox{div}\,(\mbox{grad}\,f ) = \nabla \cdot (\nabla f) = \nabla^2 f = \Delta f

The 3 remaining vector derivatives are related by the equation:

Failed to parse (Missing texvc executable; please see math/README to configure.): \nabla \times \nabla \times \vec{v} = \nabla (\nabla \cdot \vec{v}) - \nabla^2 \vec{v}

And one of them can even be expressed with the tensor product, if the functions are well-behaved:

Failed to parse (Missing texvc executable; please see math/README to configure.): \nabla ( \nabla \cdot \vec{v} ) = \nabla \cdot (\nabla \otimes \vec{v})

Precautions [link]

Most of the above vector properties (except for those that rely explicitly on del's differential properties—for example, the product rule) rely only on symbol rearrangement, and must necessarily hold if del is replaced by any other vector. This is part of the tremendous value gained in representing this operator as a vector in its own right.

Though you can often replace del with a vector and obtain a vector identity, making those identities intuitive, the reverse is not necessarily reliable, because del does not often commute.

A counterexample that relies on del's failure to commute:

Failed to parse (Missing texvc executable; please see math/README to configure.): (\mathbf u \cdot \mathbf v) f = (\mathbf v \cdot \mathbf u) f

Failed to parse (Missing texvc executable; please see math/README to configure.): (\nabla \cdot \mathbf v) f \ne (\mathbf v \cdot \nabla) f

Failed to parse (Missing texvc executable; please see math/README to configure.): (\nabla \cdot \mathbf v) f = (\frac{\part v_x}{\part x}+\frac{\part v_y}{\part y}+\frac{\part v_z}{\part z})f =

Failed to parse (Missing texvc executable; please see math/README to configure.): = \frac{\part v_x}{\part x}f+\frac{\part v_y}{\part y}f+\frac{\part v_z}{\part z}f

Failed to parse (Missing texvc executable; please see math/README to configure.): (\mathbf v \cdot \nabla) f = (v_x \frac{\part}{\part x}+v_y \frac{\part}{\part y}+v_z \frac{\part}{\part z})f =

Failed to parse (Missing texvc executable; please see math/README to configure.): = v_x \frac{\part f}{\part x}+v_y \frac{\part f}{\part y}+v_z \frac{\part f}{\part z}

A counterexample that relies on del's differential properties:

Failed to parse (Missing texvc executable; please see math/README to configure.): (\nabla x) \times (\nabla y) = (\mathbf{\hat x} \frac{\part x}{\part x}+\mathbf{\hat y} \frac{\part x}{\part y}+\mathbf{\hat z} \frac{\part x}{\part z}) \times (\mathbf{\hat x} \frac{\part y}{\part x}+\mathbf{\hat y} \frac{\part y}{\part y}+\mathbf{\hat z} \frac{\part y}{\part z}) =

Failed to parse (Missing texvc executable; please see math/README to configure.): = (\mathbf{\hat x} \cdot 1 +\mathbf{\hat y} \cdot 0+\mathbf{\hat z} \cdot 0) \times (\mathbf{\hat x} \cdot 0+\mathbf{\hat y} \cdot 1+\mathbf{\hat z} \cdot 0) =

Failed to parse (Missing texvc executable; please see math/README to configure.): = \mathbf{\hat x} \times \mathbf{\hat y} = \mathbf{\hat z}

Failed to parse (Missing texvc executable; please see math/README to configure.): (\mathbf u x )\times (\mathbf u y) = x y (\mathbf u \times \mathbf u) = x y \mathbf 0 = \mathbf 0

Central to these distinctions is the fact that del is not simply a vector; it is a vector operator. Whereas a vector is an object with both a precise numerical magnitude and direction, del does not have a precise value for either until it is allowed to operate on something.

For that reason, identities involving del must be derived with care, using both vector identities and differentiation identities such as the product rule.

References [link]

Schey, H. M. (1997). Div, Grad, Curl, and All That: An Informal Text on Vector Calculus. New York: Norton. ISBN 0-393-96997-5.
Miller, Jeff. "Earliest Uses of Symbols of Calculus". http://jeff560.tripod.com/calculus.html.
"History of Nabla". netlib.org. January 26, 1998. http://www.netlib.org/na-digest-html/98/v98n03.html#2.

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A survey of the improper use of ∇ in vector analysis (1994) Tai, Chen

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Del the Funky Homosapien
Del performing at Austin City Limits, 26 September 2008
Background information
Birth name	Teren Delvon Jones
Also known as	Deltron, Sir Dzl, Del, Del The Ghost Rapper
Born	(1972-08-12) August 12, 1972 (age 39)
Origin	Oakland, California, U.S.
Genres	Hip hop, funk
Occupations	rapper, producer, singer
Instruments	Vocals
Years active	1990–present
Labels	Asylum (1993–1997) Elektra (1993–1997) Hiero Imperium (1997–) Definitive Jux (2007–)
Associated acts	Hieroglyphics, Deltron 3030, Gorillaz, Da Lench Mob, Handsome Boy Modeling School, Ice Cube, El-P, Tame One, Unwritten Law

Teren Delvon Jones (born August 12, 1972),^[1] better known as Del the Funky Homosapien or Del tha Funkee Homosapien, is an American MC.

1 Music career
2 In other media
3 Collaborations
4 Discography
5 References
6 External links

Music career [link]

Early life and beginnings: 1990-1997 [link]

Born in in Oakland, California, he is the cousin of seminal west coast rapper Ice Cube, and began his career writing lyrics for Ice Cube's band, Da Lench Mob.^[2] In 1991, with the help of Ice Cube, Del released his first solo album, I Wish My Brother George Was Here,^[2] at the age of 18. The album was a commercial success largely due to the popularity of the hit single, "Mistadobalina". Ultimately Del, who was not pleased with the limited musical range of the album, severed his production-artist relationship with Ice Cube for his next album, No Need for Alarm.

No Need for Alarm saw the introduction of the Oakland clique Hieroglyphics,^[2] whose original members included Souls of Mischief (Opio, A-Plus, Phesto and Tajai) Casual, Pep Love, Del, and producer Domino. No Need for Alarm helped to expose both the regional Oakland sound of hip hop, as well as the freestyle based, "golden era 90's" style of hip hop being expanded at the time.

Middle era: 1998-2006 [link]

Due to touring, mundane activities, and frequent psychedelic drug use, Del would not produce another album for five years. About a month before the release of his third album, Future Development, Del received a letter from his label, Elektra, stating that his contract had been terminated.^[2]^{[dead link]}

Future Development became available in 1998. The album was only available on the Hieroglyphics website in tape form, but was re-released in 2002 under the Hieroglyphics Imperium label. Del also released another collaborative work with the Hieroglyphics crew in 1998, which was also the Hieroglyphics crew's first album: 3rd Eye Vision.

Del performing in Red Deer, Alberta in 2006

Two years later, Del released his fourth solo album, Both Sides of the Brain, as well as Deltron 3030 which was a collaborative work with artists Dan the Automator and Kid Koala. With Nakamura and Koala, Del was also a guest performer for Gorillaz' 2001 eponymous album Gorillaz. He appeared on the singles "Clint Eastwood" and "Rock the House" (see Collaborations). 2003 saw the release of Full Circle, the second full-length album from the Hieroglyphics crew.

In 2004 Elektra released The Best of Del tha Funkee Homosapien: The Elektra Years without the approval of Del. The CD only includes songs from his first two albums, along with a handful of b-sides from that era. Del was not pleased and advised people to not buy the CD, saying it was just Elektra trying to make money off of him due to his newfound fame.

Together with his crew, Del established his own independent record label, Hieroglyphics Imperium Recordings, which primarily consists of an expanded Hieroglyphics roster and a few other artists with whom the group collaborates regularly.

Recent years: 2006-present [link]

On March 11, 2008 Del released Eleventh Hour through Definitive Jux. On March 31, 2009 Del's next album Funk Man (The Stimulus Package) was made available for free download on the internet. The album is available at his page on Bandcamp,^[3] though he gave away some hard copies on his supporting Funk Man tour. A new video for the first single, "Get It Right Now", is on YouTube. In September of the same year, he released a new album, Automatik Statik, for an unfixed rate with a minimum of $3.

Del released his next album It Ain't Illegal Yet on August 6, 2010. There is no fixed price for the album, allowing listeners to pay whatever they wish for the album. Paying certain prices for the album will give certain incentives.

Del released his latest album, Golden Era, on April 19, 2011 in a three disc set including Funk Man (The Stimulus Package) and Automatik Statik.

In other media [link]

Del's songs have seen frequent use in various forms of media including video games, film soundtracks, as well as skateboarding, rollerblading and snowboarding videos. In 2000 the song "Catch All This" from Both Sides of the Brain was featured in the game Street Sk8er 2, "Jaw Gymnastics", featuring Casual, was featured in Knockout Kings, and "Positive Contact" from Deltron 3030 was featured in Mat Hoffman's Pro BMX. In 2001, "If You Must" was featured in Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3. In 2003, "Positive Contact" from Deltron 3030 was featured in Tony Hawk's Underground and "The Izm" was featured in Rolling. In 2005, "At the Helm" featuring Hieroglyphics was featured in Tony Hawk’s Project 8. In 2006, "Catch A Bad One" was featured in Marc Ecko's Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure. The Hieroglyphics song "Soweto" is featured on NBA 2K5 (the Hieroglyphics crew is unlockable as a bonus team). The Hieroglyphics song "Don't Hate the Player" was also featured in NBA 2K7. Del's song "Burnt" was featured in Tony Hawk's American Wasteland. "Teamwork" is featured on PlayStation Home.

In 2006 his song "Dr. Bombay" was used in the movie Beerfest and more recently a Hieroglyphics song "At the Helm" was featured in commercials for and is used in Tony Hawk's Project 8.

Del has had many songs featured in snowboarding movies. "Press Rewind" was the song for Eero Ettala's part in the film White Balance and "If You Must" was featured in DC Mountain Lab.

Del collaborated with John King of the Dust Brothers and Mark Mothersbaugh of Devo to produce the original score for Skate 3, released in May 2010.

Collaborations [link]

In 1999-2000, Del collaborated with Kid Koala and Dan The Automator as the supergroup, Deltron 3030 whose debut, self-titled album was released in May 2000. Exposure from the 3030 project helped to expand Del's fan base—the 3030 project worked well as a marketing move because the CD capitalized on the growing interest of computer technology, incorporating motifs of science fiction, telling stories about life and hip hop based in the year 3030, and infusing much of the popular internet terminology and culture in circulation at the time. A follow up album is set to be released in 2012.^[4]

Del collaborated with virtual trip-hop group Gorillaz for two songs on their debut album, "Clint Eastwood" and "Rock the House", both of which became singles and videos and achieved chart success. For the purposes of the music videos and the Gorillaz storyline canon, Del performed under the identity of "Del the Ghost Rapper", who was said to be a spirit that was hiding from death within the band's drummer, Russel Hobbs. Del later commented in an interview on the success of "Clint Eastwood" by saying that he actually wrote the song with the book How to Write a Hit Song, a book that he bought with a coupon his mother gave him. After the song went platinum he gave the plaque to his mother.^[5] As part of Russel Hobbs' back-story, the character of Del was one of Russel's friends that was gunned down in a drive-by shooting, whose ghost possessed Russel.^[6]

In March 2010 Del collaborated with independent pop/funk duo Modern Science on a track called "Do It Right Now" that is available on the band's Bandcamp website.^[7]

Discography [link]

Main article: Del the Funky Homosapien discography

Mixtapes [link]

West Coast Avengers (WCA D-Funk Limited) (2012)
West Coast Avengers II (Fela) (2012)
West Coast Avengers III (TBR)

Other releases [link]

Missing Link with Dinosaur Jr. The Judgment Night (soundtrack) (1993)
The Best of Del tha Funkee Homosapien: The Elektra Years (2004)
Del's Leak Pack #1 (2008)
Del's Leak Pack #2 (2008)
The Ice Cold - Leak Pack (2011)
Del's Funky Leak Pack Aug. (2011)
Root Stimulation (with Grassroots) (2012)

Hieroglyphics [link]

3rd Eye Vision (with Hieroglyphics) (1998)
Full Circle (with Hieroglyphics) (2003)

Gorillaz [link]

Gorillaz (2001)

Deltron 3030 [link]

Deltron 3030 (2000)
Deltron Event II (TBA)

Mike Relm's "Spectacle"[link]

Mike Relm (2008)

With Tame One [link]

Parallel Uni-Verses (2009)

With Parallel Thought [link]

Attractive Sin (June 19, 2012)

References [link]

^ allmusic Overview
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Hieroglyphics. "Del tha Amazing Homosapien". Hieroglyphics. http://ensim.hieroglyphics.com/artists/del/. Retrieved 2007-09-05.
^ "Del The Funky Homosapien". Delthefunkyhomosapien.bandcamp.com. http://delthefunkyhomosapien.bandcamp.com. Retrieved 2012-01-19.
^ Facebook Wall Photos - Automator and I "The album is done, Kid Koala put the final scratches/touches on it. Will probably be out sometime next year once the logistics are all figured out. Peace"
^ qcluu (2010-04-19). "Del the Funky Homosapien Hit the Books for Famous Gorillaz Rap". Spinner. http://www.spinner.com/2010/04/19/del-the-funky-homosapien-gorillaz-clint-eastwood-rap/. Retrieved 2012-01-19.
^ Brown, Cass; Gorillaz (2 November 2006). Rise of the Ogre. United Kingdom: Penguin. pp. 24–25. ISBN 1-59448-931-9.
^ "Do It Right Now | Modern Science". Modernscience.bandcamp.com. 2011-03-01. http://modernscience.bandcamp.com/track/do-it-right-now. Retrieved 2012-01-19.

External links [link]

v t e Del the Funky Homosapien

Studio albums	I Wish My Brother George Was Here No Need for Alarm Future Development Both Sides of the Brain Eleventh Hour Funk Man (The Stimulus Package) Automatik Statik It Ain't Illegal Yet Golden Era

Compilation albums	The Best of Del tha Funkee Homosapien: The Elektra Years

Related artists	Hieroglyphics Souls Of Mischief Gorillaz

See also	Discography Hieroglyphics Imperium Recordings Deltron 3030

v t e Hieroglyphics

Casual Del tha Funkee Homosapien Domino Pep Love Souls of Mischief A-Plus Opio Phesto Tajai

Albums	3rd Eye Vision (1998) Full Circle (2003)

Compilation albums	Hieroglyphics B-Sides (1997) Hieroglyphics Oldies, Vol. I (1997) Hieroglyphics Oldies, Vol. II (1998) The Corner (2005) Over Time (2007)

Related artists	A Band Called Pain Extra Prolific Goapele Handsome Boy Modeling School Knobody Musab O.C. Prince Ali Yameen Z-Man

See also	Hieroglyphics Imperium Recordings

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Del Shannon
Del Shannon promo photo Del Shannon promo photo
Background information
Birth name	Charles Weedon Westover
Also known as	Charlie Johnson
Born	(1934-12-30)December 30, 1934 Grand Rapids, Michigan, U.S.
Died	February 8, 1990(1990-02-08) (aged 55) Santa Clarita, California, U.S.
Genres	Rock, country music
Occupations	Singer-songwriter
Instruments	Vocals, guitar
Years active	1958–90
Labels	Bigtop, Twirl, Berlee, Amy, Liberty, Dunhill, United Artists, Island, Elektra, Silvertone
Website	Official website

Del Shannon (December 30, 1934 – February 8, 1990) was an American rock and roll singer-songwriter who had a No. 1 hit, "Runaway", in 1961.

1 Biography
2 Film and television
- 2.1 Filmography
- 2.2 Television
3 Hit singles
4 Literature
5 References
6 External links

Biography [link]

Del Shannon was born Charles Weedon Westover in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He grew up in Coopersville, a small town near Grand Rapids. There he learned ukulele and guitar and listened to country and western music, including Hank Williams, Hank Snow, and Lefty Frizzell. He was drafted into the Army in 1954, and while in Germany played guitar in a band called The Cool Flames.

When his service ended, he returned to Battle Creek, Michigan, and worked in a furniture factory as a truck driver and selling carpets. He also found part-time work as a rhythm guitarist in singer Doug DeMott's group, working at the Hi-Lo Club.^[1] When DeMott was fired in 1958, Westover took over as leader and singer, giving himself the name Charlie Johnson and renaming his band The Big Little Show Band.^[2]

In early 1959 he added keyboardist Max Crook, who played the Musitron (his own invention of an early synthesizer). Crook had made recordings, and he persuaded Ann Arbor disc jockey Ollie McLaughlin to hear the band. McLaughlin took the group's demos to Harry Balk and Irving Micahnik of Talent Artists in Detroit. In July 1960, Westover and Crook signed to become recording artists and composers on the Bigtop label. Balk suggested Westover use a new name, and they came up with "Del Shannon", combining Shannon Kavanagh with Del, derived from the Cadillac Coupe de Ville, his favorite car.^[2]

Success [link]

He flew to New York City, but his first sessions were not successful. McLaughlin then persuaded Shannon and Crook to rewrite and re-record one of their earlier songs, originally called "Little Runaway", using the Musitron as lead instrument. On 21 January 1961, they recorded "Runaway", which was released as a single in February 1961, reaching #1 in the Billboard chart in April.

Shannon followed with "Hats Off to Larry", which peaked at #5 (Billboard) and #2 on Cashbox in 1961, and the less popular "So Long, Baby," another song of breakup bitterness. "Runaway" and "Hats Off to Larry" were recorded in a day.^[3] "Little Town Flirt", in 1962 (with Bob Babbitt), reached #12 in 1963, as did the album of the same title. After these hits, Shannon was unable to keep his momentum in the U.S., but continued his success in England, where he had always been more popular. In 1963, he became the first American to record a cover version of a song by The Beatles: his "From Me to You" charted in the US before The Beatles' version.

Berlee Records and move to Amy [link]

By August 1963, Shannon's relationship with his managers and Bigtop had soured, so he formed his own label, Berlee Records, named after his parents^[4] and distributed by Diamond Records. Two singles were issued: the apparently Four Seasons-inspired "Sue's Gotta Be Mine" was a moderate hit, attaining #71 in the US and #21 in the UK (where Shannon's records continued on the London label). The second single, "That's The Way Love Is", did not chart, and Shannon patched things up with his managers soon after. In early 1964, he was placed on Amy (Stateside in the UK), and the Berlee label disappeared.

He returned to the charts immediately with "Handy Man" (a 1960 hit by Jimmy Jones), "Do You Wanna Dance" (a 1958 hit by Bobby Freeman), and two originals, "Keep Searchin'" (#3 in the UK; #9 in the US), and "Stranger in Town" (#40 in the UK).

In the latter part of 1964, Shannon produced a demo recording session for a young fellow Michigander named Bob Seger, who would go on to stardom much later. Del gave acetates of the session to Dick Clark (Del was on one of Clark's tours in 1965) and by 1966 Bob Seger was recording for Philadelphia's famed Cameo Records label, resulting in some regional hits which would eventually lead to a major-label deal with Capitol Records.

Also in late 1964, Del paid tribute to one of his own musical idols, with Del Shannon sings Hank Williams, Amy Records 8004, released in the closing days of 1964. The album was recorded in hardcore country honky-tonk style and no singles were released.

Shannon opened with Ike and Tina Turner at Dave Hull's Hullabaloo in Los Angeles, California on 22 December 1965.^[5]

Moves to Liberty, United Artists and Island [link]

Shannon signed with Liberty in 1966 and revived Miss Toni Fisher's "The Big Hurt" and the Rolling Stones' "Under My Thumb". Peter and Gordon released his "I Go To Pieces" in 1965.^[2] Shannon also discovered country singer Johnny Carver, who was then working in the Los Angeles area. Del got Carver a contract with Liberty Records subsidiary Imperial Records, writing, producing and arranging both sides of Carver's debut single "One Way Or The Other"/"Think About Her All The Time". Carver went on to have nearly twenty Country-chart hits during the late 60s and 70s. The liner notes to his debut Imperial album acknowledge Del's role in his being brought to the label.

In the late 1960s, not having charted for several years, he turned to production. In 1969, he discovered Smith and arranged their hit "Baby, It's You," which had been a hit for the Shirelles in 1963. In 1970, he produced Brian Hyland's million-seller "Gypsy Woman", a cover of Curtis Mayfield.

During Shannon's Liberty Records tenure, success on a national scale eluded him, but he scored several "regional" U.S. chart hits with "The Big Hurt", "Under My Thumb", "She", "Led Along" and "Runaway" (1967 version). The 1967 version of "Runaway" (recorded in England and produced by Andrew Loog Oldham) also did well on Canadian and Australian pop charts.

In early '67, Shannon recorded the album Home And Away in England, with Rolling Stones producer Andrew Loog Oldham at the helm. Intended by Oldham as the British answer to Pet Sounds, Home And Away was shelved by Liberty Records, although a handful of singles were issued. It was not until 1978 that all of the tracks were eventually issued (with three non-related tracks) on a British album titled And The Music Plays On. In 1991, all of the tracks were released in the US as part of the Del Shannon – The Liberty Years CD. In 2006, 39 years after it was recorded, Home And Away was finally released as a stand-alone collection by EMI Records, in the UK. This CD collected the eleven original tracks in stereo and the five single releases (US, UK and Philippines) in their original monaural mixes.

In September 1967, Del began laying down the tracks for "The Further Adventures Of Charles Westover", which would be highly regarded by fans and critics alike, despite disappointing sales. The album yielded two 1968 singles, "Thinkin' It Over" and "Gemini" (recently the subject of a Pilooski remix). In October 1968, Liberty Records released their tenth (in the USA) and final Del Shannon single, a cover of Dee Clark's 1961 hit, "Raindrops". This brought to a close a commercially disappointing period in Del's career.

In 1972, he signed to United Artists and recorded Live In England, released in June 1973. Reviewer Chris Martin critiqued the album favourably, saying that Shannon never improvised, was always true to the original sounds of his music, and that only Lou Christie rivaled his falsetto.^[6] In April 1975, Shannon signed with Island Records.^[7]

After he and his manager jointly sought back royalties for Shannon, Bug Music was founded in 1975 to administer his songs.^[8]

A 1976 article on Shannon's concert at The Roxy Theatre described the singer as "personal, pure and simple rock 'n' roll, dated but gratifyingly undiluted." Shannon sang some of his new rock songs along with classics like "Endless Sleep" and "The Big Hurt." Writer Richard Cromelin said "Shannon's haunting vignettes of heartbreak and restlessness contain something of a cosmic undercurrent which has the protagonist tragically doomed to a bleak, shadowy struggle."^[9]

Later career [link]

Shannon's career slowed greatly in the 1970s, in part due to his alcoholism.^[10] Welsh rock singer Dave Edmunds produced the Shannon single "And the Music Plays On" in 1974.^[2] In 1978 he stopped drinking and began work on "Sea of Love", released in the early 1980s. This song came from Shannon's album Drop Down and Get Me, produced by Tom Petty. The album took two years to record and featured Petty's Heartbreakers backing Shannon. RSO Records, which recorded Shannon, folded, and the LP was recorded by Network Records and distributed by Elektra Records. Seven songs are Shannon originals with covers of the Everly Brothers, Rolling Stones, Frankie Ford, and "Sea of Love" by Phil Phillips. It was Shannon's first album in eight years.^[3]

In February 1982, Shannon appeared at the Bottom Line. He performed pop-rock tunes and old hits. New York Times reviewer Stephen Holden described an "easygoing pop-country" manner. On "Runaway" and "Keep Searchin," Shannon and his band rediscovered the sound "in which his keen falsetto played off against airy organ obbligatos." In the 1980s Shannon performed "competent but mundane country-rock".^[11] In 1986, Shannon enjoyed a top-ten hit as a songwriter when pop-country singer Juice Newton released a single of her cover of Shannon's "Cheap Love," which reached #9 on the Billboard Hot Country chart.

Shannon enjoyed a resurgence after re-recording "Runaway" with new lyrics as the theme for the NBC-TV television program Crime Story. Producer Michael Mann felt this was definitive of the era in which the program was set.^{[citation needed]} The new lyrics replaced "wishin' you were here by me... to end this misery" with “watchin’ all the things go by... some live, while others die,” reflecting the violent, mob-related show.

In 1988, Shannon sang "The World We Know" with The Smithereens on their album Green Thoughts. Shortly after, in 1990, he recorded with Jeff Lynne of Electric Light Orchestra, and there were rumors he would join The Traveling Wilburys after Roy Orbison's death.^[10] Previously, in 1975, Shannon had recorded tracks with Lynne, along with "In My Arms Again," a self-penned country song recorded by Warner Brothers, which had signed Shannon in 1984.^[2]

Death and legacy [link]

Suffering from depression, Shannon committed suicide on February 8, 1990, with a .22 caliber rifle at his home while on a prescription dose of the anti-depressant drug Prozac in Santa Clarita, California. Following his death, The Traveling Wilburys honored him by recording a version of "Runaway". Lynne also co-produced Shannon's posthumous album, Rock On, released on Silvertone in 1991.^{[citation needed]}

Shannon was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1999,^[12] and his contributions have been recognized by the Rockabilly Hall of Fame.

In 2005, Shannon was inducted into the Michigan Rock and Roll Legends Hall of Fame.^[13] In 2007, Shannon's recording of "Runaway" was voted the #1 Legendary Michigan Song.^[14] Shannon has had two other recordings recognized as Legendary Michigan songs: "Keep Searchin' (We'll Follow The Sun)" in 2008 and "Hats Off to Larry" in 2009.^[15]

Film and television [link]

Filmography [link]

It's Trad, Dad! (aka Ring A Ding Rhythm) (1962)
"Daytona Beach Weekend" (1965)
The Best of Del Shannon, Rock 'N' Roll's Greatest Hits in Concert, (Live from the Rock & Roll Love Palace, Kissimmee, Florida, 1988). a television program hosted by Wolfman Jack.

Hit singles [link]

Release date	Title	Chart positions
Release date	Title	US	UK^[16]
03.1961	"Runaway"	1	1
06.1961	"Hats Off to Larry"	5	6
09.1961	"So Long Baby"	28	10
11.1961	"Hey! Little Girl"	38	2
03.1962	"I Won't Be There"	113	-
03.1962	"Ginny In The Mirror"	117	-
06.1962	"Cry Myself to Sleep"	99	29
09.1962	"The Swiss Maid"	64	2
12.1962	"Little Town Flirt"	12	4
04.1963	"Two Kinds of Teardrops"	50	5
06.1963	"From Me to You"	77	-
08.1963	"Two Silhouettes"	-	23
11.1963	"Sue's Gotta Be Mine"	71	21
03.1964	"That's The Way Love Is"	133	-
03.1964	"Mary Jane"	-	35
07.1964	"Handy Man"	22	36
09.1964	"Do You Wanna Dance"	43	-
11.1964	"Keep Searchin' (We'll Follow the Sun)"	9	3
02.1965	"Stranger in Town"	30	40
05.1965	"Break Up"	95	-
08.1965	"Move It On Over"	129	-
05.1966	"The Big Hurt"	94	-
09.1966	"Under My Thumb"	128	-
02.1967	"She"	131	-
09.1967	"Runaway" (remake)	112	-
06.1969	"Comin' Back To Me"	127	-
12.1981	"Sea of Love"	33	-
03.1985	"In My Arms Again"^A	-	-

^APeaked at #56 on Hot Country Songs.

Literature [link]

Bak, Richard (July, 2011). Del Shannon's Runaway Success Led to his Downfall. Hour Detroit. http://www.hourdetroit.com/Hour-Detroit/July-2011/The-Flip-Side-of-Success/. Retrieved August 17, 2011.
DeWitt, Howard A. (2001). Stranger in Town: The Musical Life of Del Shannon. Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt Publ.. ISBN 978-0-7872-8854-9.

References [link]

^ The Hi-Lo Club
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e DELSHANNON.COM - Full Length Biography
^ ^a ^b Shannon's Back-It's On The Record, Los Angeles Times, 20 December 1981, Page M92.
^ *Young, Brian (2004). The Complete Recordings 1960-1970 Del Shannon "Home And Away" (hard-covered book that accompanies the 8-CD box set). Bear Family Records. ISBN 3-89916-078-9.
^ Del Shannon, Guests, Slated at Hullabaloo, Los Angeles Times, December 22, 1965, Page E6.
^ Del Shannon's River Still Flows, Los Angeles Times, December 23, 1973, Page H51.
^ Pop News, Los Angeles Times, April 6, 1975, Page M59.
^ "SongwriterUniverse Magazine - Fred Bourgoise of Bug Music". Songwriteruniverse.com. http://www.songwriteruniverse.com/bug.htm. Retrieved 2012-03-25.
^ At The Roxy-Undiluted Aura of Del Shannon, Los Angeles Times, January 21, 1976, Page E11.
^ ^a ^b Del Shannon Biography
^ Pop:Del Shannon, 60's Teen-Age Star, New York Times, February 22, 1982, Page C16.
^ "Del Shannon". Michigan Rock and Roll Legends. http://www.michiganrockandrolllegends.com/Default.aspx?name=DELSHANNON. Retrieved July 27, 2011.
^ [http://www.michiganrockandrolllegends.com/mrrl-hall-of-fame/73-del-shannon
^ [http://www.michiganrockandrolllegends.com/legendary-michigan-songs-inductees
^ Bak, Richard (July, 2011). Del Shannon's Runaway Success Led to his Downfall. Hour Detroit. http://www.hourdetroit.com/Hour-Detroit/July-2011/The-Flip-Side-of-Success/. Retrieved August 17, 2011.
^ Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 494. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.

External links [link]

Official website
Del Shannon at the Internet Movie Database
Del Shannon at Allmusic
Del Shannon at Discogs

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Name	Shannon, Del
Alternative names	Westover, Charles Weedon
Short description	Singer-songwriter
Date of birth	December 30, 1934
Place of birth	Grand Rapids, Michigan
Date of death	February 8, 1990
Place of death	Santa Clarita, California

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