Buddy Knox
Buddy Wayne Knox ( born July 20, 1933, Happy, Texas, † February 14, 1999 in Bremerton, Washington ) was an American singer and songwriter who primarily known for his rockabilly number -one hit " Party Doll " been.
Biography
Knox was born in the small peasantry Happy in Texas. Even as a child he learned to play the guitar. As a teenager, he and some friends from high school a band called Rhythm Orchids. In 1956, she appeared in a radio program together with the likewise derived from Texas Roy Orbison, who proposed them, the music producer Norman Petty at his studio in Clovis ( New Mexico) to visit.
Knox and his band participated in Petty's studio on three songs. One of them was " Party Doll ," which he had co-written with his bassist Jimmy Bowen. Two of the most recorded songs were released in 1956 by the small Texas record company Triple - D, " Party Doll " on the A side and "I'm Stickin ' With You" by Jimmy Bowen on the B-side. The single was in North Texas Panhandle and around Lubbock ( Texas), a regional success. Subsequently acquired Roulette Records the rights to the recordings and published early in 1957 " Party Doll " with the new B-side " My Baby 's Gone " under the U.S. catalog number 4002nd The single placed at February 23, 1957 for the first time in the charts, held to 23 weeks in the charts and broke on March 20, 1957 Tab Hunter's " Young Love " from the top of the U.S. charts. In the Rhythm & Blues charts Knox listed with " Party Doll ", reached the number 3, and his second hit " Hula Love", 13th place
The title " Party Doll " has been covered several times in 1957. The most successful cover version was by Steve Lawrence, the title reached number 10 of the "Top 100" charts. Two other versions could be placed in the charts 1957: The instrumental version of Wingy Manone And His Orchestra reached No. 56 of the "Top 100" charts, Roy Brown's version debuted at number 89 of the "Top 100" chart and at number 14 R & B Best Sellers charts.
The following single " Rock Your Little Baby to Sleep " was less successful, reaching number 23 of the "Top 100" charts. His second and last Top Ten success had Knox entitled " Hula Love", which was recorded in the late 1940s by Leadbelly in the original version. Peter Kraus coverte the title for the German record market, his single " Hula Baby" peaked in the German single charts in 1958 number 1 with "Somebody Touched Me " had Knox in 1958 again for Roulette Records a respectable hit, the number 22 of the "hot 100 " charts landed.
Since January 1959, the Rhythm Orchids mentioned nothing on the record releases. After the plate successes subsided significantly, Knox changed mid- 1960 for the record label Liberty Records. He had at Liberty in 1961 another Top 40 hit in the U.S., " Lovey Dovey ", a cover of R & B hits of the Clovers from the year 1954. His recent listing on the charts in the early summer of 1961, "Ling -Ting - Tong "was a cover version of a doo-wop classic. Having had no success in the pop music market more after 1961, he turned to country music. In Britain, he brought in 1962 the single " She's Gone " in the top 50
Knox took until 1964 on plates for Liberty Records, in 1965 and 1966 for Reprise Records, where only four singles were released. After a pause, published from 1968 to 1971 on United Artists Records seven singles and one album. Until the early 1980s appeared plates on the label Sunny Hill Records. Chart successes had Buddy Knox after 1961 no more.
Buddy Knox died in 1999 from lung cancer. His grave is in the cemetery Dreamland Cemetery in Canyon ( Texas).