Ray Peterson (April 23, 1939 – January 25, 2005) was an Americanpopsinger who was best remembered for singing ”Tell Laura I Love Her” and ”Corrine, Corrina” in the 1960s.
Ray T. Peterson was born in Denton, Texas. As a boy he had to overcome polio. Blessed with a four-octave singing voice, Peterson moved to Los Angeles, California, where he was signed to a recording contract by RCA Victor Records in 1958. He recorded several songs that were minor hits until ”The Wonder of You” made it into the Top 40 of the BillboardHot 100chart on June 15, 1959.The song would later be recorded by Elvis Presley, with whom Peterson became friends. Peterson scored a Top 10 hit with the teenage tragedy song, ”Tell Laura I Love Her”
In 1960, Peterson created his own record label with his manager Stan Shulman, called Dunes Records, and enlisted the help of record producerPhil Spector.[4] with ”Corrine, Corrina”. Peterson’s dramatic ballad, ”I Could Have Loved You So Well”, written by Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil and produced by Spector, only reached #57 on the U.S. chart. He then tried another death disc, ”Give Us Your Blessing”, but this time the record only made #70 in the Hot-100.
His last charting US-Top-30 hit was ”Missing You”. By the mid 1960s he had become something of a phenomenon on the west coast of the United States, appearing live in numerous concerts with Paul McCartney lookalike Keith Allison.
His performances at the Sacramento Memorial Auditorium, produced by Fred Vail, beginning in 1963 helped fuel a revival of ”The Wonder of You,” as well as launching his new relationship with MGM Records, an alliance that produced two albums: The Very Best of Ray Peterson which featured most of the Dunes singles, and The Other Side of Ray Peterson, which included many of his nightclub songs. He later moved to Nashville, Tennessee, and by the 1970s when the hit records stopped coming, Peterson became a Baptist Churchminister and occasionally played the oldies music circuit.
Peterson was inducted into the Rockabilly Hall of Fame.
Peterson died of cancer in 2005, in Smyrna, Tennessee, aged 65. He left a widow and four sons and three daughters. He was interred in the RoselawnMemorialGardens cemetery in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Det här är nästan allt som stod på engelska Wikipedia, på svenska stod nästan ingenting.
Ray Peterson – Tell Laura I love her 1960
Ray Peterson – Corinne Corinna 1960
Eddie Hodges – I´m gonna knock on your door 1961
Eddie Hodges, född 5 mars 1947 i Hattiesburg i Mississippi är en amerikansk sångare och skådespelare. Hodges hade en succé 1961 med I’m Gonna Knock on Your Door. Som skådespelare gjorde han några filmer, bland annat spelade han Huckleberry Finn 1960. Det är allt som står på svenska Wikipedia om Eddie Hodges och hans stora låt från 1961, som toppade 10 i topp i flera veckor under sensommaren och hösten. Där kan jag ha fel, det är dock ca 51,5 år tillbaka i tiden. Men man kunde skriva låtar då också och som står sig än. I Sverige fick ju Lill-Babs en riktig hit med samma låt på svenska. Om det var direkt efter Eddie Hodges hon gjorde sin version som hette, Mina kärleksbrev dom vill jag ha tillbaks, minns jag inte, det var kanske lite längre tid mellan original och kopia, men det var en låt som passade Lill-Babs och gick hem i stugorna i Sverige, så jag antar att hon fick någon form av guld- eller silverskiva för den, men för sådana utmärkelser, behövdes det inte så många ex. Nå hur gick det för Eddie då? Jo han tog examen vid the University of Southern Mississippi, och slutade med sång- och filmkarriären som han hade startat vid 14 års ålder. Vi får tacka honom för en bra version av den här låten. Jag tror faktiskt inte att det är någon som har gjort låten bättre, fast han bara var 14 år vid tillfället. För mer information läs engelska Wikipedia.
