Donnie Brooks
John Dee Abahosh ( born February 6, 1936 in Dallas, Texas, † February 23, 2007 in Burbank, California), later John Faircloth, publications as Johnny Faire, Dick Bush, Johnny Jordan and most successful as Donnie Brooks, was an American rock - ' n' roll, and pop singer.
Career
John Abahosh moved as a child from his birth city of Dallas to San Diego, where he carried his name Faircloth after adoption by his stepfather. He studied singing of opera and regretted the loss of his soprano voice broke through. He worked in radio, in clubs and for publishers, for which he recorded demos. He also came to his own first release under the abbreviated name "Johnny Faire " for Fable Records in very small numbers.
In November 1957 he was asked by John Marascalco and Kenny Babcock Surf Records for a particular job: Dorsey Burnette had recorded the song Bertha Lou, but was under contract with Coral Records, so that the already completed single could not be put to sale. Faircloth therefore sang the title again. Since the B-side Til the Law Says Stop was present only in one track, he had to be as accurate as possible sing about Burnettes voice, whose Memphis - accents made to create it.
His next three station were each associated with a name change: as " Dick Bush ", he released a single on Era Records, as " Johnny Jordan" one single on Jolt Records and finally back at Era as " Donnie Brooks ". He took this name also officially. Donnie worked with the publisher Jesse Hodges when he fashioned a song called Wishing Bell of the author William Michael to Mission Bell. Dorsey Burnette contributed a line of text and Donnie played their first demo, he offered Dave Burgess and Jimmie Rodgers, who called for a further review. Scott Turnbull, the guitarist of Guy Mitchell, devised a bridge, but sold his shares to the author credit for $ 200 again to John Marascalco. Finally Era Records released the song, which reached the charts after some delay and there remained 20 weeks with a seventh place as a top position. Other chart hits followed with Dollhouse, Round Robin and Memphis until 1964 Brooks moved to Reprise Records, where two singles came before he could bring out two plates at Challenge Records.
With Al De Lory by Capitol Records Brooks drew up some in its sense of " really wonderful things ", but they were still not mixed after a year to end. So he went with the master tapes to Happy Tiger Records, where he in 1970 she was finally able to publish under the production of Ray Ruff. For Ruff's religious album Truth of Truths Brooks took on the role of Jesus and competed with the same unintentionally released album Jesus Christ Superstar. A self-produced album on their own label Wishbone Records Donnie sold at concerts. Also a promising project for the 200th anniversary of the American Declaration of Independence, for which he contributed Happy Birthday USA, stayed at 20th Century Records without the necessary promotion and flopped.
Furthermore, Brooks had roles in the films Go Get Yourself a College Girl, A Swingin 'Summer and Love In, for which he also contributed songs. Even after the time of his record releases Brooks remained active as a musician and played many shows on stage and on TV, was a producer and publisher of other artists and organized oldie shows. Brooks was married to Penny, who had formerly been in the Mousketeers, and had two children. He died in 2007 of a heart attack.