Don Cherry (singer)

Don Cherry, actually Donald Ross Cherry ( born January 11, 1924 in Wichita Falls, Texas) is an American pop singer and a former successful professional golfer.

Career as a singer

Following his military service, studied Cherry singing and his musical career began in the late 1940s as a singer in the orchestras of Jan Garber, Tommy Dorsey and Victor Young. As a singer of the Victor Young orchestra he had next to some Top 30 hits in 1950 with Mona Lisa also his first top 10 success

In the summer of 1950, he got a recording contract with Decca Records and in September 1950 released his first single, Thinking Of You / Here In My Arms, which had been recorded with the Dave Terry orchestra. The title Thinking Of You reached # 4 on the U.S. charts and stayed 21 weeks in the Top 20 the following Singles The Seven Wonders Of The World and I Apologize were no sales successes, however, he succeeded to the title Vanity, in which he was accompanied by the orchestra Sy Oliver, once again reached a minor hit, the number 17 on the U.S. charts in July 1951, but his many recordings for the next few years, could no longer place in the charts.

In the fall of 1955 Cherry Decca Records left and signed a recording contract with Columbia Records, but his first Columbia single There's A Place Called Heaven / 14 was kt. Gold unsuccessful. His following, published in December 1955 Single Band Of Gold / Rumble Boogie used the commercially biggest hit of his career, for which he also received a " Gold Record ". Band Of Gold, Music by Jack Taylor and text by Bob Musel, reached # 5 on the Billboard Top 100 and stayed 22 weeks in the Top 30 Band Of Gold was also in the UK reached a top 10 hit, the title in October 1956 Place 6 on the British charts and stayed 11 weeks in the Top 20 reach In 1956 Don Cherry still more charts successes, such as with Wild Cherry, which reached number 29 on the U.S. charts, and Ghost Town, which arrived at No. 26. His album Swingin ' For Two reached 1956 number 15 on the Billboard LP charts. 1956 was the most successful year in the career of Don Cherry, but after a minor hit, Namely You, in the autumn of this year, the hit series broke off and was no longer able Cherry to place one of his songs in the U.S. charts, and the end of the 1950s he decided to earn his money rather than professional golfer.

Career as a golfer

In addition to his career as a singer Don Cherry had played since childhood golf and was successful in the 1950s and early 1960s. He played in the years 1953, 1955 and 1961 in the U.S. golf team in the Walker Cup, won the 1954 " Sunnehanna Amateur Cup" and finished in 1960 at the U.S. Open in second place.

Country singer

1965 Don Cherry went back into show business and signed a recording contract with Monument Records, for which he recorded between 1965 and 1970 a total of seventeen singles, but they all could not be placed in the U.S. charts. On three LPs Cherry worked with Willie Nelson, who has also written the foreword to Cherry's memoirs.