Damita Jo DeBlanc
Damita Jo, Damita Jo Dublanc full name (* August 5, 1930 in Austin, Texas, † December 25, 1998 in Baltimore, Maryland), was an American singer, who in the 1950s and 1960s, mainly with rhythm-and - Blues music was successful.
Life
Damita Jo grew up in Santa Barbara, Calif., came in 1949 through the mediation of the Disc Jockey Joe Adams from Los Angeles in the local Club Oasis to a two-month commitment as a singer. Adams gave her even with the record label Discovery Records her first record contract by which there were two single releases in 1950. Damita Jo 1951, joined the rhythm-and - blues group Red Cap, its director Steve Gibson married a little later. With the Red Caps took until 1960 to more than 20 sheets at labels. About the Red Caps Damita Jo also came to a solo recording contract with RCA Victor, where with her until 1955, about seven singles were produced. Apart from a 20th Place with the Title I Went to Your Wedding of the Red Caps, remained the RCA recordings without success. After an equally unsuccessful two-year stint at ABC - Paramount Damita Jo joined in 1959 the record label Mercury Records. There it a year later celebrated her first solo success with the answer song to the title of the Drifters Save the Last Dance for Me, whose name was with her I'll Save the Last Dance for You and Billboard ranked 16th in the rhythm-and - blues charts and the 22th place on the Hot 100 reached. Even better her 1961 title I'll Be There was recorded, he came up the ranks 12 ( Hot 100 ) and 15 (R & B). The following Mercury Singles could not maintain the record market, and so the record company announced in 1963 after a total of 14 singles and four LPs the contract with Damita Jo.
After brief stops at the labels and Vee -Jay Melic Damita Jo 1965 received a new contract with the New York firm Epic Records. There, until 1967, nine singles were produced, of which Billboard recorded three songs in the Hot 200 and four in the Adult Contemporary charts. The most successful Epic recording was the title If You Go Away, which reached the Top 200 at number 68 and the AC Charts rank 10. Their recording career ended Damita Jo 1971 with record company founded in 1968 Ranwood region where, among other recordings of the orchestra by Lawrence Welk and Ray Anthony. From Damita Jo published by Ranwood eight singles and two LPs.
In the 1970s, Damita Jo profiled in the comedy scene with appearances in nightclubs and the TV comedy show by Redd Foxx. In the late 1970s she settled in Baltimore and devoted himself to gospel music. She also made trips to the jazz scene where she had appearances at the Atlantic City Jazz Festival in 1979 and 1980. In 1985 she released an album of religious music. Christmas 1998, she died of a respiratory illness at the age of 58 years.