Gene McDaniels
Gene McDaniels ( born February 12, 1935 in Kansas City, Kansas; † July 29, 2011 in Kittery Point, Maine) was an American pop music singer, composer and producer.
Life
Eugene Booker McDaniels began as a small child in the church choir to sing, and with eleven years he was a member of a gospel quartet. He grew up in Omaha, Nebraska, on and studied at the Music Conservatory. As the gospel quartet went to New York, was McDaniels leader of the group. 1954 McDaniels moved to Los Angeles, where he quickly made himself in the jazz clubs a good name as a jazz singer.
His first recording contract concluded McDaniels in 1960 at Liberty Records from where Tommy Gerret his producer was keeping him with works from the Brill Building, among others, Burt Bacharach and Carole King. In the spring of 1961 McDaniels, whose first name is given to the record labels with genes could end up with the pop song on his third single A Hundred Pounds Of Clay Spitzenhit one who brought him up to third place in the U.S. charts. In the autumn of the same year he came with Tower Of Strength to fifth place. The plate successes continued into 1963, during which time the plates by Gene McDaniels were able to place seven times in the top 100. In 1962 he played with Chubby Checker, Gene Vincent and Del Shannon in the British film It's Trad Dad, in which his song Another Tears seemed Falls. A tour of Australia was unsatisfactory, and so McDaniels continued to focus on his record productions.
1965 ran his record contract with Liberty, and after two unsuccessful recordings for Columbia Records, he let himself down again in New York and again made jazz music, among other things, with Herbie Hancock. 1967 McDaniels went to Europe for two years and worked there as a songwriter. This activity determined his career even after returning to the States. He closed with the record company Atlantic Records signed a contract as a singer and composer in 1974 with the title sung by Roberta Flack Feel Like Makin 'Love a # 1 hit. Between 1974 and 1979, McDaniels was also active as a producer and has worked with several well-known soloists, as Nancy Wilson and Gladys Knight together. In 1996 he founded together with Carolyn E. Thompson own company Numoon Disc Company.
Gene McDaniels died on 29 July 2011 after a short illness at the age of 76 years at his home in Kittery Point.