name	Dee Dee Warwick
background	solo_singer
birth name	Delia Mae Warrick
born	September 25, 1945Newark, New Jersey, U.S.
died	October 18, 2008Essex County, New Jersey, U.S.
genre	Soul, R&B;
occupation	Singer
years active	1963–2008
label	Jubilee, Tiger, Hurd, Blue Rock, Mercury, Atco, RCA, Sutra, Heritage, Private Stock }}

Dee Dee Warwick (September 25, 1945 October 18, 2008) was an American soul singer. Born in Newark, New Jersey as Delia Mae Warrick, she was the sister of Dionne Warwick, niece of Cissy Houston and cousin of Whitney Houston.

Early career/Mercury recordings

Dee Dee Warwick sang with her sister Dionne Warwick and their aunt Cissy Houston in the New Hope Baptist Church Choir in Newark, NJ: eventually the three women formed the gospel trio the Gospelaires who often performed with the Drinkard Singers, Houston being a member of both groups.

At a performance by the Gospelaires with the Drinkard Singers at the Apollo Theater in 1959, the Warwick sisters were recruited by a record producer for session work and Dionne and Dee Dee Warwick, along with Doris Troy, subsequently became a prolific New York City area session singing team.

Dee Dee Warwick began to dabble in a solo career in 1963 cutting what is reportedly the earliest version of "You're No Good" for Jubilee Records, produced by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, who later recorded Warwick on their own Tiger label with the 1964 single "Don't Think My Baby's Coming Back". In 1964 Warwick recorded a version of "I (Who Have Nothing)" for a tiny Buffalo, NY label (Hurd) - although the song's lyric was written by Leiber and Stoller the duo did not participate in Warwick's recording - and Warwick also recorded as a member of Allison Gary and the Burners (as did Cissy Houston) with a release on Royo entitled "Darling".

Warwick performed on Shivaree which aired July 17, 1965, she sang "We're Doing Fine" and "I Want to Be with You".

In 1965 Warwick signed with Mercury Records where she recorded with producer Ed Townsend for their subsidiary Blue Rock label, reaching the R&B; Top 30 with "We're Doing Fine". It was on the Mercury label in 1966 that she had her biggest hit with "I Want to Be with You" from the Broadway show ''Golden Boy'', a #9 R&B; hit which just missed the pop Top 40 at #41 (Nancy Wilson had reached #54 with her version entitled "I Wanna Be with You" in 1964). The follow-up single was the original version of "I'm Gonna Make You Love Me" which, peaking at #13 R&B; and #88 Pop, was not Warwick's biggest hit but became her best known number by virtue of its later success as a duet between Diana Ross and The Supremes and The Temptations

Atco

Warwick continued to record for Mercury through the late 60s. Although her occasional success in the R&B; field - notably the 1969 Ed Townsend production of ''Foolish Fool'' - was enough for the label wishing to re-sign her in 1970, she signed with Atco at the invitation of Atlantic Records president Jerry Wexler himself, Wexler having admired Warwick's early session work.

Warwick made her first recordings for Atco in February 1970, cutting four tunes with Townsend. In an early indication of the disarray that Warwick's career would experience at Atlantic, these tracks were shelved and she was sent to Criteria Studios in Miami in April to work with producer Dave Crawford and fast-emerging studio band, The Dixie Flyers. The resultant ''Turning Around'' album yielded a Top Ten R&B; hit with "She Didn't Know", but Warwick would never have another album release or single in the R&B; Top 20.

In October, she cut 10 tracks at Muscle Shoals, again with Crawford producing (along with Brad Shapiro). Only three singles were released with one, a remake of "Suspicious Minds", becoming Warwick's final R&B; hit in 1971. That summer, Crawford and Shapiro produced an eight-track session for Warwick at the Pac-Three studios in Detroit. One track, "Everybody's Got to Believe in Something" was issued as a single - Warwick's last release on Atco despite two final sessions for the label in early 1972. Reflecting on her unrewarding Atco tenure, Warwick opined: "The problem was simply that the company had a lot of other big female acts - like Aretha [Franklin] and Roberta [Flack] - and you get into a situation where you don't get the right kind of material or production or promotion..."

Later career

In 1973, Warwick returned to Mercury but in 1974, she moved to Private Stock where the 1975 single "Get Out of My Life" became her final charting (#73 R&B;) song. That same year, Warwick recorded for RCA Victor as DeDe Schwartz. After several years away from the recording studio, Dee Dee Warwick made her final recordings in the mid-80s: in 1984 her album ''Dee Dee Warwick, Call Me'' was released on Sutra Records (a small independent label, not "Kama Sutra" as it was previously described) and she subsequently recorded for Heritage. After living in Los Angeles for a number of years, Warwick became a resident of Georgia in 1994.

Dee Dee Warwick received a Pioneer Award from the Rhythm And Blues Foundation in 1999. Recordings of both her Mercury years and Atco years are available on CD. In late 2006, Dee Dee returned to success singing background for Dionne in concert, and also was part of the "Family First" song in the Tyler Perry movie and soundtrack for ''Daddy's Little Girls''.

In January 2008, Dee Dee was featured in the title song from Dionne's gospel album, ''Why We Sing''. In February 2008, she continued her background vocals for Dionne's one woman show 'My Music and Me' in Europe.

Death

Dee Dee Warwick struggled with narcotics addiction for many years and was in failing health for some time. Her sister was with her when she died on October 18, 2008 in a nursing home in Essex County, New Jersey, aged 63.

Chart singles

1963: "You're No Good" (Jubilee) (#117 US)

1965: "Do It With All Your Heart" (Blue Rock) (#124 US)

1965: "We're Doing Fine" (Blue Rock) (#96 US, #28 R&B;)

1966: "I Want To Be With You" (Mercury) (#41 US, #9 R&B;)

1966: "I'm Gonna Make You Love Me" (Mercury) (#88 US, #13 R&B;)

1967: "When Love Slips Away" (Mercury) (#92 US, #43 R&B;)

1969: "That's Not Love" (Mercury) (#106 US, #42 R&B;)

1969: "Ring of Bright Water" (Mercury) (#113 US)

1969: "Foolish Fool" (Mercury) (#57 US, #14 R&B;)

1970: "She Didn't Know (She Kept On Talking)" (Atco) (#70 US, #9 R&B;)

1970: "Cold Night In Georgia" (Atco) (#44 R&B;)

1971: "Suspicious Minds" (Atco) (#80 US, #24 R&B;)

1975: "Get Out Of My Life" (Private Stock) (#73 R&B;)

References

External links

USA Today Obituary

Category:1945 births Category:2008 deaths Category:African American musicians Category:American female singers Category:American rhythm and blues musicians Category:American rhythm and blues singers Category:American soul musicians Category:American soul singers Category:Jubilee Records artists Category:Musicians from New Jersey Category:People from Newark, New Jersey

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Official name	Warwick
Latitude	52.28
Longitude	-1.59
Civil parish	Warwick
Population	23,350
Shire district	Warwick
Shire county	Warwickshire
Region	West Midlands
Constituency westminster	Warwick and Leamington
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Dial code	01926
Os grid reference	SP2865
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Warwick ( ) is the county town of Warwickshire, England. The town lies upon the River Avon, south of Coventry and just west of Leamington Spa and Whitnash with which it is conjoined. As of the 2001 United Kingdom census, it had a population of 23,350. There has been human activity at Warwick as early as the Neolithic, and constant habitation since the 6th century.

History

Human activity on the site of the town dates back to the Neolithic, when a settlement may have been established. From the 6th century onwards, Warwick has been continuously inhabited. According to the Anglo Saxon Chronicle, in the year 914 Anglo Saxon Ethelfleda Lady of the Mercians and sister of king Edward the Elder of Wessex built a burh or fortified dwelling at Warwick. It was one of ten burhs built to defence the kingdom of Mercia against the Danes. Warwick was chosen as the site for one of these fortifications because of its proximity to the important transport routes of the Fosse Way and the Avon. In the early 10th century a new shire was founded with Warwick as its administrative centre, giving the settlement new importance. The name 'Warwick' means "dwellings by the weir". In 1050 the Danes invaded Mercia and burned down much of Warwick including the nunnery (which stood on the site of the present day St Nicholas Church).

William the Conqueror founded Warwick Castle in 1068 on his way to Yorkshire to deal with rebellion in the north. Building a castle within a pre-existing settlement could require demolishing properties on the site, and in the case of Warwick four houses were pulled down. The castle was within the larger Anglo-Saxon burh and a new town wall was created close to the rampart of the burh.

In the medieval period Warwick remained under the control of various Earls of Warwick, mostly of the Beauchamp family, becoming a walled town. Today the only remains of the town walls are the east and west gatehouses. The eastern gatehouse now serves as part of the King's High School, a sister institution to Warwick School. Warwick was not incorporated as a borough until 1545. The town's Priory was founded in 1142 on the site of the current Priory Park.

During the English Civil War the town and castle were garrisoned for Parliament. The garrison, under Sir Edward Peyto, withstood a two week siege by the Royalists. Later musters from 1644 to 1646 record a garrison of up to 350 men under the command of Colonel William Purefoy and Major John Bridges. The middle of the 17th century also saw the founding of Castle Hill Baptist Church, one of the oldest Baptist churches in the world.

Fire

Much of the medieval town was destroyed in the Great Fire of Warwick which occurred in 1694. As a result, most of the buildings in the town centre are of late 17th and early 18th century origin, although a number of older medieval timber framed buildings survive, especially around the edges of the town centre.

The fire burnt down much of the medieval church of St Mary; both the chancel and the Beauchamp Chapel, however, survived, the latter having been built between 1443 and 1464 according to the wishes of Richard Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick (who had died in Rouen in 1439). A full size reclining copper gilt effigy of the Earl lies upon his Purbeck marble tomb – a fine piece of medieval metalwork cast in 1459.

Governance

Population growth has led to Warwick becoming joined to its larger neighbouring town Leamington Spa with which it forms a small conurbation. Both towns are now, along with Kenilworth and Whitnash, administered as part of Warwick District, which has its headquarters in Leamington, although each retains a separate town council. Warwickshire County Council remains based in Warwick itself.

Warwick is represented in Parliament as part of the Warwick and Leamington constituency. It has been held by the Conservative Party since the 2010 general election; since then, Chris White has been the constituency's member of parliament. It was previously held by the Labour Party by James Plaskitt MP.

Geography

Antiquarian William Dugdale wrote in the 17th century that Warwick was "standing upon a rocky ascent from every side, and in a dry and fertile soil, having ... rich and pleasant meadows on the south part ... and ... woodland on the north". Two factors have effected Warwick's built environment: the Great Fire of 1694 and the lack of industrialisation. The fire destroyed much of the town, and the subsequent rebuilding was largely in one style. In the 19th century, when other towns were rapidly growing during the Industrial Revolution, Warwick did not experience the same growth. As a result, the factories and workers' housing largely passed Warwick by. Part of the reason Warwick did not develop as a centre of industry was that the town did not lie on important roads and the River Avon was not navigable as far as Warwick.

Suburbs

Suburbs of Warwick include Bridge End, Emscote, Forbes, Myton (connecting Warwick with Leamington Spa), Packmores, The Cape, Warwick Gates, Woodloes Park and the newly established Chase Meadow.

Warwick Gates

Warwick Gates is a newly developed housing estate and business park in Heathcote, south-west Warwick. Although separated from Warwick town centre by open fields, Warwick Gates falls within the Warwick South and Bishops Tachbrook parish. It is adjacent to Whitnash, a small town near Leamington Spa, and nearby the village of Bishops Tachbrook. The Tachbrook Park and Heathcote industrial estates are located nearby. The NHS Royal Leamington Spa Rehabilitation Hospital is adjacent to Warwick Gates.

Climate

Warwick, along with the rest of the British Isles, experiences a maritime climate, characterised by a narrow temperature range, mild winters and cool summers. The nearest official met office weather station is Wellesbourne, located about 6 miles south of Warwick town centre, and at a similar elevation.

The absolute maximum temperature (also the absolute maximum for the county of Warwickshire) stands at recorded in August 1990. During a typical year, the warmest day should reach , and 16.5 days should report a maximum of or higher.

The lowest recorded temperature is , recorded in January 1982. Typically, 53.3 air frosts are recorded in an 'average' year.

Rainfall averages out at per year, with over 114 days seeing 1mm or more falling. All averages refer to the 1971–00 period.

Demography

Warwick 23,350 93.9% 3.8% 0.4%

Warwick compared
2001 UK census	|	Warwick Local Authority	England
Total population	|	125,931	49,138,831
White	|	92.9%	90.9%
Asian	|	4.7%	4.6%
Black	|	0.5%	2.3%

As of the 2001 UK census, Warwick had a population of 23,350. The population density was , with a 100 to 95.7 female-to-male ratio. Of those over 16 years old, 29.0% were single (never married), 43.4% married, and 8.9% divorced. Warwick's 10,285 households included 33.1% one-person, 36.7% married couples living together, 8.6% were co-habiting couples, and 16.8% single parents with their children; these figures were similar to those of the wider district of Warwick, however both borough and town had higher rates of single parents than England (9.5%). Of those aged 16–74, 26.2% had no academic qualifications, above the figure for the district but below proportion nationally (22.2% and 28.9& respectively), and 26.2% had an educational qualification such as first degree, higher degree, qualified teacher status, qualified medical doctor, qualified dentist, qualified nurse, midwife, health visitor, etc. compared to 19.9% nationwide.

Population change

Before the 1801 census, populations were not directly recorded. However estimates can be based on other measures. Historians suggest that in 1086 the town had a population of around 1,500. Indicators for the following centuries are sparse, but the population in the mid-16th century has been guessed to be around 2,000. By the late 17th century this had increased to over 3,000. The 1801 census recorded that 5,592 people lived in Warwick.

Economy

Due to its proximity to north-south and east-west motorway routes, many companies have their head office in the town. Since November 2004, National Grid plc has had its National Gas Control Centre (NGCC) for the National Transmission System on the Warwick Technology Park south of the town between the A425 road and A452 road. ConocoPhillips and their petrol station group, JET, have their UK base also on the Technology Park as do lingerie company Bravissimo. IBM and Volvo Group UK have bases on the Wedgnock Industrial Estate in the north of the town, near to the A46 trunk road.

Culture

Warwick hosts annual festivals ranging from the Spoken Word to Classical and Contemporary Music to a Folk Festival and a Victorian Evening, held in late November or early December. St. Mary's Church hosts a series of Early Music concerts, and the Bridge House Theatre hosts the Music-in-Round concerts. Warwick Chamber of Trade helps to promote the town for visitors, residents and businesses. The town is also famous for Warwick Castle, the construction of which began in 1068. The town centre is also known for its historic architecture and contains a mixture of Tudor and 17th-century buildings. In recent years several high-profile national and international companies have set-up large office complexes in and around Warwick, notably National Grid plc and IBM.

Warwick is also known for Warwick Racecourse, near the west gate of the medieval town, which hosts several televised horse racing meetings a year. Within the racecourse is a small golf course. Warwick Hospital, Royal Leamington Spa Rehabilitation Hospital and St Michael's Hospital (a psychiatric that superseded Central Hospital, Hatton) are situated within the town.

J. R. R. Tolkien seems to have been very influenced by Warwick (where he was married in the Catholic Church of Saint Mary Immaculate) and by its Mercian connections: Lynn Forest-Hill, in an article in the ''Times Literary Supplement'' (TLS 8 July 2005 pp 12–13) argues cogently that two important settlements in Tolkien's work were modelled on Warwick — Edoras closely on the early town, and Minas Tirith more remotely on the Norman; and that aspects of the plot of ''The Lord of the Rings'' are paralleled in the romance known as Guy of Warwick.

Warwick and its historic buildings have featured in a number of television series, including the BBC's drama series ''Dangerfield'', the period dramas ''Pride and Prejudice'' and ''Tom Jones'' and Granada Television's ''Moll Flanders''. Parts of the town subbed for Elizabethan and Jacobean era London in the third-series episode two (The Shakespeare Code) of Doctor Who which ran 7 April 2007.

Warwick has many long established sports clubs including Warwick Hockey Club which was founded in 1920 and Racing Club Warwick F.C. founded a year earlier.

Education

Schools

There are a number of secondary schools located within Warwick, including Warwick School, an independent school for boys, The King's High School For Girls, an independent school for girls, Myton School and Aylesford School, both of which are state run co-educational schools. Campion School and Trinity Catholic School in Leamington Spa also include parts of Warwick in their priority areas.

Warwick School

Warwick School is an independent school for boys which claims to be the oldest boys' school in England. The actual date of its founding is unknown, although 914 has been quoted in some cases. For some years the school honoured the fact that King Edward the Confessor (c.1004–1066) chartered it, although there is no direct evidence for this, and King Henry VIII re-founded the school in 1545. Whatever the truth of the matter, there is no doubt that there has been a grammar school in the town of Warwick since before the Norman Conquest, and its successor, the present independent school, has been on its current site south of the River Avon since 1879.

University of Warwick

The University of Warwick is somewhat confusingly named after the county of Warwickshire, rather than the town, and is in fact situated several miles north of Warwick on the southern outskirts of Coventry, near Kenilworth. Adding to the location confusion is the fact that Coventry is no longer in the county of Warwickshire, but instead is in the West Midlands, leading to the current situation where the university straddles both counties.

Landmarks

Bridge House Theatre

Collegiate Church of St Mary

Lord Leycester hospital

Lord Leycester hotel

Market Hall

Guy's Cliffe House

The Dream Factory

St John's Museum

St Michael's Leper Hospital

St. Nicholas' Park

Saxon Mill

Warwick Castle

Warwick Hospital

Warwick Racecourse

Warwick School

Warwickshire County Council Shire Hall

Transport

Road

Warwick is on the M40 London-Birmingham motorway, connected to junctions 13, 14 and 15, and is on the A46 dual-carriageway trunk road positioned between Coventry and Stratford-upon-Avon. Warwick has several council off-street car parks in the town. There are also a few privately run car parks, including those at the railway station and the castle. There is also limited on-street parking in some streets, enforcement of which is the responsibility of council parking wardens.

Railway

The town has a railway station with direct rail services to Leamington Spa, London, Birmingham and Stratford-upon-Avon provided by Chiltern Railways. In addition, a few peak-hour trains to and from Birmingham are operated by London Midland. Warwick Parkway, an out-of-town station opened in 2000 a few miles from the town.

Bus

Bus services to Leamington Spa, Stratford-upon-Avon and Coventry are operated by Stagecoach in Warwickshire from the bus station in the town centre.

Coach

There is also a National Express coach stop in the town's bus station with limited services. The nearby Warwick Parkway railway station also has a coach stop with more frequent services.

Waterways

The Grand Union Canal and the River Avon also pass through the town. The restored Saltisford Canal Arm, is close to the town centre, and is a short branch of the Grand Union Canal. The arm is the remains of the original terminus of the Warwick and Birmingham Canal and dates back to 1799. The Saltisford Canal Trust have restored most of the surviving canal, which is now the mooring for colourful narrowboats and a waterside park open to the public. Over 800 visiting narrowboats come by water to Warwick each year and moor on the arm.

Air

The nearest international airport to Warwick is Birmingham Airport, about by road from the town centre.

Public services

Warwick Hospital, Royal Leamington Spa Rehabilitation Hospital and St Michael's Hospital (a psychiatric that superseded Central Hospital, Hatton) are situated within the town.

Twin towns

The town of Warwick has formal twinning arrangements with two European towns: Saumur in France (since 1976) and Verden in Germany (since 1989). Havelburg in Germany has been a friendship town since 1990 when it was adopted by Verden. There is also a friendship link with Bo District in Sierra Leone.

References

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Further reading

External links

Building History entry for Warwick

Warwickshire's Railways – the history of the county's railways from 1838 to 1968

Saltisford Canal Trust: Warwick's local waterway charity

Photos of Warwick and surrounding area on geograph

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name	Dee Dee Ramone
background	solo_singer
birth name	Douglas Glenn Colvin
alias	Dee Dee King
born	September 18, 1951Fort Lee, Virginia, USA
died	June 05, 2002Los Angeles, California, USA
instrument	Bass, vocals, guitar
genre	Punk rock, hip hop
occupation	Bassist, musician, songwriter
years active	1966–2002
label	Sire, Wanker, World Service, Other People's Music, Corazong
associated acts	Ramones, GG Allin, Nina Hagen, Furious George, Paul Kostabi, Christian Martucci, Stefan Adika
website
notable instruments	Fender Precision Bass }}

Dee Dee Ramone (born Douglas Glenn Colvin) (September 18, 1951 – June 5, 2002) was an American songwriter and musician, best known as founding member, bassist and main songwriter of the punk rock band the Ramones.

Though nearly all of the Ramones' songs were credited equally to all the band members, Dee Dee was the band's most prolific lyricist and songwriter, writing many of the band's most well-known songs, such as "53rd & 3rd," "Commando," "Rockaway Beach," and "Poison Heart" (Joey Ramone wrote songs like "I Wanna Be Sedated," "Sheena is a Punk Rocker," or "Rock'n'Roll High School," so the two of them wrote the majority of the Ramones' material). He was initially the band's lead vocalist, though his (then) inability to sing and play bass at the same time resulted in original drummer Joey Ramone taking over the lead vocalist duties. Dee Dee would serve as the band's bassist and songwriter from 1974 through 1989, when he left to pursue a short-lived career in hip hop music under the name Dee Dee King. He soon returned to his punk roots and released three solo albums featuring brand new songs, many of which were later recorded by the Ramones. He toured the world playing his new songs, Ramones songs and some old favorites in small clubs, and continued to write songs for the Ramones until 1996, when the band officially retired.

Dee Dee struggled with drug addiction for much of his life, particularly heroin. He began using drugs as a teenager, and continued to use for the majority of his adult life. He appeared to clean up his act in the early 1990s but began using heroin again some time later. He died from a heroin overdose in 2002.

Biography

Childhood

Born Douglas Glenn Colvin in Fort Lee, Virginia, he was the son of an American soldier and a German woman. As an infant, his family relocated to Berlin, Germany, due to his father's military service. His father's military career also required the family to relocate frequently. These frequent moves caused Dee Dee to have a lonely childhood with few real friends. His parents separated during his early teens, and he remained in Berlin until the age of 15, when he, along with his mother and sister Beverley, moved to the Forest Hills section of New York City's borough of Queens, in order to escape Dee Dee's alcoholic father. There he met John Cummings and Thomas Erdelyi (later dubbed Johnny and Tommy "Ramone"), then playing in a band called The Tangerine Puppets, named after a Donovan song.

Ramones

Colvin, later Dee Dee, and Cummings, later Johnny, quickly became friends, as they were both social outcasts in their heavily middle class neighborhood. After an unsuccessful guitar audition for Television, Johnny convinced Dee Dee to form their own band with then-drummer Jeffrey Hyman, later Joey Ramone, in 1974. Joey took over vocal duties after Dee Dee decided that he could not sing lead vocals for longer than a few songs as his voice shredded. Dee Dee would continue, however, to count off each song's tempo with his signature rapid-fire shout of "1-2-3-4!"

It was Dee Dee who first suggested naming the band the Ramones, after reading that Paul McCartney often signed into hotels under the alias "Paul Ramon". He added an 'e' to the end of that surname and the band members all agreed to adopt the surname "Ramone" as a means of conveying their unity.

Dee Dee wrote or co-wrote much of the Ramones' repertoire, such as "53rd and 3rd" (a song about male prostitution at 53rd Street and 3rd Avenue in Manhattan, allegedly based on personal experience), "Glad to See You Go" (written about his then-girlfriend, a stripper and fellow drug user with a volatile personality), "It's a Long Way Back to Germany", "Chinese Rock" (originally recorded by Johnny Thunders and The Heartbreakers, as guitarist Johnny Ramone was not enthusiastic about the Ramones doing songs about drugs) and "Wart Hog" (a song Dee Dee wrote in rehab). After he quit the Ramones, Dee Dee continued to write songs for them, contributing at least three songs to each of their albums.

According to ''Mondo Bizarro's'' liner notes, for example, the Ramones once bailed Dee Dee out of jail in exchange for the rights to his songs "Main Man", "Strength to Endure" and "Poison Heart", which would become a minor hit for the band. The band's final studio album, 1995's ''Adios Amigos'', consists of several of Dee Dee's solo songs, such as "I'm Makin' Monsters for My Friends" and "It's Not for Me to Know" from his album ''I Hate Freaks Like You''.

Later projects

In 1989, before leaving the Ramones, Dee Dee embarked on a brief hip hop career as rapper "Dee Dee King" with the album ''Standing in the Spotlight''. Dee Dee had recorded "Funky Man" as Dee Dee King in 1987, while still a member of the Ramones. Music critic Matt Carlson wrote that the album "will go down in the annals of pop culture as one of the worst recordings of all time. After the album failed, he returned to punk rock with various short-lived projects such as Sprokkett (which also featured Richard 'The Atomic Elf' Bacchus) of D Generation and later, The Spikey Tops.

In 1991, Dee Dee was briefly involved with transgressive punk rock singer-songwriter GG Allin, playing guitar with Allin's backup band The Murder Junkies. His involvement lasted approximately one week, enough for him to be briefly interviewed during the filming of Todd Phillips' Allin documentary ''Hated: GG Allin And The Murder Junkies''. In the film, Dee Dee reveals that he was unaware of the band's name, even after joining. Rehearsal recordings of him with Allin and The Murder Junkies appears on the ''Hated'' soundtrack, as well as on the posthumous live Allin compilation ''Res-Erected''. Video footage of the rehearsals is available on DVD through Allin's estate's website. Dee Dee never actually played a live gig with the band.

In 1992, Dee Dee formed another short lived project named The Chinese Dragons, which was followed by the most successful of his post-Ramones projects, a group named Dee Dee Ramone I.C.L.C. (Inter-Celestial Light Commune), which lasted from 1994 to 1996. The group featured New York City bassist John Carco (formerly of Queens' hardcore group Misguided) who befriended Dee Dee when the two attended Alcoholics Anonymous meetings together during the summer of 1992. After writing more than a dozen songs and recording several demos for an upcoming Ramones album with producer Daniel Rey, Dee Dee decided to keep the material for his new band. After working with several drummers and playing several live shows in the New York City area, Dee Dee and Carco moved to Amsterdam to record a four song EP and fourteen track album for Rough Trade Records. ''I Hate Freaks Like You'' was released on April 17, 1994, featuring Nina Hagen on two of the album's fourteen tracks. The three-piece line up now consisted of Dee Dee (vocals, guitar), Carco (bass, vocals), and Dutch drummer Danny Arnold Lommen.

I.C.L.C. would go on to promote the ''I Hate Freaks Like You'' album by touring 22 countries over a 10-month period. During this tour, in November 1994, Dee Dee met 16-year-old Barbara Zampini while searching for his lost guitar outside his hotel in Argentina. Zampini was a big fan of the Ramones and had been playing bass for two years, heavily influenced by Dee Dee's early work. They later married, and remained together until his death.

In January, 1995, the group had completed their 10-month tour and returned to their headquarters in Amsterdam to begin recording a second album. The group was soon dropped, however, by their record label, Rough Trade World Service. With this development, bassist John Carco left the group and moved to Los Angeles where he began playing with Frankie O. and Pete Stahl. Carco would later pursue an acting career. Songs written by Dee Dee and Carco for the never released second I.C.L.C. album would eventually be recorded by the Ramones on their final album ''Adios Amigos''. One of these songs, ''Born to Die in Berlin'', would ultimately be the final song on the final Ramones' album, and featured Dee Dee singing in German on the bridge of the song.

Dee Dee was also a special guest at the final Ramones' show at The Palace in Los Angeles on August 6, 1996, performing the lead vocals on the song "Love Kills".

Dee Dee formed a Ramones' tribute band called The Ramainz with his wife Barbara ("Barbara Ramone", bass) and former Ramones' member Marky (drums). They recorded an album, ''Live in NYC'', released in Argentina, and played a couple of times with C.J. Ramone.

Dee Dee also recorded several solo albums under his old name Dee Dee Ramone. "Zonked!", the first album release under the Dee Dee Ramone moniker was re-titled "Ain't It Fun?" for the European release, but other than the addition of the bonus track "Please Kill Me", the music is identical. The line up for this album was Dee Dee Ramone on guitars and lead vocals, Marky Ramone on drums, longtime partner Daniel Ray producing and on guitars, and Barbara "Ramone" / Zimpani on bass and lead vocals. Guests included Joey Ramone singing lead on "''I am seeing UFOs''", and The Cramps' vocalist Lux Interior doing the same on "''Bad Horoscope''".

The second solo-album was called ''Hop Around''; the line-up consisted of Dee Dee Ramone, Barbara Ramone / Zimpani, Chris Spedding on guitars and Billy Rogers on drums. Dee Dee also released ''Greatest and Latest'', with Barbara, Spedding and Chase Manhattan on drums. This album consisted of re-recording of Ramones songs, a re-recorded solo song ("Fix Yourself Up", originally from Zonked! / Ain't It Fun?), cover-songs and an unreleased new solo-song ("Sidewalk Surfin'").

In the 21st century, Dee Dee teamed up with Paul Kostabi, leader of the hardcore punk band Youth Gone Mad and former guitarist for White Zombie. An established artist, Kostabi was instrumental in getting Dee Dee's new career as a painter off the ground. Together with Barbara, the trio collaborated on several hundred works that sold quickly for a few hundred dollars each.

On Halloween, 1998, while staying at the Hotel Chelsea, Dee Dee and Zampini met the Hollywood band SEXYCHRIST, which featured adult film star Kurt Lockwood. Lockwood encouraged them to move to Hollywood, and together the two bands shared a successful tour of the U.S. in early 1999. Afterwards, Dee Dee formed The Dee Dee Ramone Band, with members including Christian Martucci (vocals and guitar), Anthony Smedile (drums), Chase Manhattan (drums), and Stefan Adika (bass). With the exception of one show at the Spa Club in NYC and a Club Makeup performance, this would be his last touring band. Dee Dee would release a book, entitled ''Legend of a Rock Star, A Memoir: The Last Testament of Dee Dee Ramone'', written while on tour in Europe in 2001.

Dee Dee later moved to California where he continued to make music and pursued an acting career. Though largely unsuccessful as an actor, he landed a major role in the 2002 low budget film ''Bikini Bandits''. He also contributed the song, "In a Movie", to the film's soundtrack, which features his wife Barbara on lead vocals.

His next album—a live album produced by Gilby Clarke (ex-Guns N' Roses), recorded on June 12, 2002, at Hollywood's Key Club—never materialized. Several bootlegs of The Dee Dee Ramone Band exist, including, ''Live in Milan, Italy''. Dee Dee's final studio recordings were released by tREND iS dEAD! records as the 2002 album, ''Youth Gone Mad featuring Dee Dee Ramone''. He also worked with the band Terrorgruppe.

Death

Dee Dee Ramone was found dead on the evening of June 5, 2002, by his wife Barbara at his Hollywood, California apartment. An autopsy established heroin overdose as the official cause of death. He had been booked to play a show at the Ventura Theatre, which ended up being a memorial show in his honor.

Dee Dee Ramone is buried at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood, California, not far from the cenotaph of his former Ramones' bandmate, Johnny Ramone. His headstone features the Ramones seal with the line "I feel so safe flying on a ray on the highest trails above" taken from his song, "Highest Trails Above", from the Ramones' ''Subterranean Jungle'' album. At the stone's base is the line "O.K...I gotta go now."

Equipment

Dee Dee Ramone used Ampeg amplification during his entire career with the Ramones. His preferred bass guitars included:

Danelectro Bass: Natural, White pickguard, Rosewood fretboard (1974–1975)

Fender musicmaster bass: red, white pickguard, rosewood fretboard ( 1974–1975 )

Fender '62 Precision Bass: White, Tortoise pickguard, Rosewood fretboard (1975–1977)

Fender '75 Precision Bass: Black, Black pickguard, Maple neck (1975–1977)

Fender '76 Precision Bass: White, Black pickguard (changed to Red), Maple neck (1977–1983) (He used at least 3 such basses).

Fender '78 Precision Bass: Sunburst, Black pickguard, Maple neck (1982–1983) (He used at least 2 such basses).

Fender '79 Precision Bass: Black, White pickguard, Maple neck (1983–1988)

Fender '83 Precision Bass: White, White pickguard, Maple neck (1983–1988)

ESP Custom Precision Bass: Cream, White pickguard, Rosewood fretboard (1986–1988)

ESP Custom P-style Bass: Orange w. Spider Graphic, Rosewood fretboard (1986–1989)

ESP Custom Thunderbird Bass: Yellow w. Chinese Dragon Graphic and "Ramones" lettering, Rosewood fretboard (1988–1989)

Author

Dee Dee Ramone wrote two books: ''Poison Heart: Surviving the Ramones'' (aka ''Lobotomy'') and ''Legend of a Rock Star'', a daily journal of commentary on his last, hectic European tour in the spring of 2001.

He also penned a novel, ''Chelsea Horror Hotel'', in which he and his wife move into New York City's famous Hotel Chelsea and believe they are staying in the same room where Sid Vicious allegedly killed his girlfriend, Nancy Spungen. In the book, Ramone is visited by Vicious himself, as well as other dead punk rock friends such as Johnny Thunders, Stiv Bators, and Jerry Nolan.

Discography

;Ramones

''Ramones'' (1976)

''Leave Home'' (1977)

''Rocket to Russia'' (1977)

''Road to Ruin'' (1978)

''End of the Century'' (1980)

''Pleasant Dreams'' (1981)

''Subterranean Jungle'' (1983)

''Too Tough to Die'' (1984)

''Animal Boy'' (1986)

''Halfway to Sanity'' (1987)

''Brain Drain'' (1989)

;Solo

''Standing in the Spotlight'' (1989) (used the name Dee Dee King)

"Chinese Bitch 4 Song CD-EP" (1994)

''I Hate Freaks Like You'' (1994)

''Zonked!'' (1997)

''Hop Around'' (2000)

''Greatest & Latest'' (2000)

''Youth Gone Mad featuring Dee Dee Ramone'' (2002)

''Too Tough To Die Live in NYC'' (2003)

References

External links

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name	Gene McDaniels
background	solo_singer
birth name	Eugene Booker McDaniels
alias	Eugene McDaniels
born	February 12, 1935Kansas City, Missouri, United States
died	Kittery, Maine
instrument	vocals
occupation	singer, songwriter
years active	1960–77
label	Liberty, Columbia. Atlantic, Ode
website	http://genemcdaniels.com/
notable instruments	}}

Gene McDaniels (February 12, 1935 – July 29, 2011) was an American singer and songwriter, who had his greatest recording success in the early 1960s.

Biography

Born Eugene Booker McDaniels in Kansas City, Missouri, United States, McDaniels grew up in Omaha, Nebraska. As well as singing gospel music in church, he developed a love of jazz, and learned to play the saxophone and trumpet. After forming a singing group, the Echoes of Joy, later known as the Sultans, in his teens, he studied at the University of Omaha Conservatory of Music before joining the Mississippi Piney Woods Singers, with whom he toured in California. There, he began singing in jazz clubs, and came to the attention of Sy Waronker of Liberty Records.

After recording two unsuccessful singles and an album, he was teamed with producer Snuff Garrett, with whom he recorded his first hit, "A Hundred Pounds of Clay," which reached no. 3 in the Billboard Hot 100 chart in early 1961 and sold over one million copies, earning gold disc status. Its follow-up, "A Tear", was less successful but his third single with Garrett, "Tower of Strength," co-written by Burt Bacharach, reached no. 5 and won McDaniels his second gold record. "Tower of Strength" reached #49 in the UK Singles Chart, losing out to Frankie Vaughan's chart-topping version.

He continued to have minor hit records over the next two years, but his suave style of singing gradually became less fashionable, although in 1962 he appeared performing in the movie, ''It's Trad, Dad!'', directed by Richard Lester. In 1965 he moved to Columbia Records, with little success, and in 1968, after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, he left the US to live in Denmark and Sweden, where he concentrated on songwriting. He returned to the US in 1971, and recorded thereafter as Eugene McDaniels.

After the late 1960s, McDaniels turned his attention to a more black consciousness form, and his best-known song in this genre was "Compared to What," a jazz-soul protest song made famous (and into a hit) by Les McCann and Eddie Harris on their album, ''Swiss Movement'', and also covered by Roberta Flack, Ray Charles, Della Reese and others. McDaniels also attained the top spot on the chart as a songwriter. In 1974, Roberta Flack reached #1 with McDaniels' "Feel Like Makin' Love" (not to be confused with the Bad Company song of the same name), which won a Grammy Award. McDaniels also received a BMI award for outstanding radio airplay; at the time of the award, the song had already had over five million plays.

Other songs that McDaniels recorded included "Point Of No Return" and "Spanish Lace." In the early 1970s, McDaniels recorded on the Atlantic label, which released the McDaniels albums, ''Headless Heroes of the Apocalypse'' and ''Outlaw''.

In the 1980s, McDaniels recorded an album with the percussionist Terry Silverlight, which has not yet been released. In 2005, McDaniels released ''Screams & Whispers'' on his own record label. In 2009, it was announced that he is to release a new album, ''Evolution's Child'', which featured his lyrics, and a number of songs composed or arranged with pianist Ted Brancato. Some of the songs featured jazz musician Ron Carter on concert bass.

McDaniel's "Jagger the Dagger" was featured on the ''Tribe Vibes'' breakbeat compilation album, after it had been sampled by A Tribe Called Quest.

McDaniels also appeared in films. They included the 1962 film, ''It's Trad, Dad!'', (released in the United States as ''Ring-A-Ding Rhythm''), which was directed by Richard Lester. He also appeared in 1963's ''The Young Swingers''. McDaniels is briefly seen singing in the choir in the 1974 film, ''Uptown Saturday Night''.

McDaniels lived as a self-described "hermit" in the state of Maine. In 2010, he launched series of YouTube videos on his website, featuring his music and thoughts on some of his creations.

McDaniels died on July 29, 2011 at his home.

Discography

Studio albums

''In Times Like These'' - Liberty (1960)

''Sometimes I'm Happy, Sometimes I'm Blue'' - Liberty (1960)

''A Hundred Pounds Of Clay'' - Liberty (1961)

''Gene McDaniels Sings Movie Memories'' - Liberty (1962)

''Hit After Hit'' - Liberty (1962)

''Tower Of Strength'' - Liberty (1962)

''Spanish Lace'' - Liberty (1963)

''The Wonderful Word Of Gene McDaniels'' - Liberty (1963)

''Outlaw'' - Atlantic (1970)

''Headless Heroes of the Apocalypse'' - Atlantic (1971)

''Natural Juices'' - Ode (1975)

''Screams & Whispers'' - Sky Forest Music (2005)

Produced by Eugene McDaniels

''The First Time'' - Carri Coltrane, 1999

''Flamenco Sketches'' - Carri Coltrane, 1998

Chart singles

Year	Single	Chart Positions
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		3	11	-
	31	-	-
	5	5	49
		10	-	-
	99	-	-
	21	23	-
	31	-	-
		64	-	-
		115	-	-

Filmography

''It's Trad, Dad!'' (a.k.a. ''Ring-A-Ding Rhythm'', 1962)

''The Young Swingers'' (1963)

References

Category:1935 births Category:2011 deaths Category:People from Kansas City, Missouri Category:African American musicians Category:African American singer-songwriters Category:Musicians from Missouri Category:American rhythm and blues singer-songwriters Category:American male singers Category:Songwriters from Missouri Category:Liberty Records artists

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