Gus Backus
Gus Backus ( born September 12, 1937 in Southampton on Long Iceland, New York; actually Donald Edgar Backus ) is an American musician and pop singer.
Life
The hobby musician Backus was drafted in mid -1950s by the United States Army in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. There he joined the doo-wop group The Del- Vikings, who could in 1957 recorded with the titles Come Go With Me and Whispering Bells two top ten listings in the U.S. charts. In the same year, on 28 July 1957 the GI Backus was moved to Wiesbaden in Germany. There he founded the vocal group " Vidells " and one year later during a home leave two of his own songs in Chicago. Due to a counsel of his brother to Backus in 1959 applied for in writing to the Polydor label, the producer Gerhard Mendelson test shots and finally offered him a contract. There were a few singles that predominantly German -language cover versions of American and British title success, including Elvis Presley, Paul Anka and Conway Twitty contained.
The breakthrough came in 1960 with the titles Backus brown bear and white dove and Then the old chief. In the first half of the 1960s was followed by other successful singles and countless appearances in film and music programs, with whom Backus became a popular entertainer in Germany. Although he 1964 for Polydor in Nashville, among others, one hillbilly LP recorded in German and English, increasingly certain mood, drinking and carnival songs, the repertoire of Backus. 1965 Backus ended up with the title beans in the Ohr'n still a great success. In addition, German -language music in the second half of the 1960s had increasingly compete with the emerging beat- wave.
1973 returned Backus show business back and walked back to the U.S., where he worked as a foreman among other oil fields in Texas, while he at times was considered lost in Germany and was even pronounced dead. In the 1980s, Backus returned to Germany, where he tried in vain to new and old songs, share in the success of the oldie - wave. Backus is married and father of four children and several grandfather. He lives near Munich.
On August 4, 2012 in Stuttgart sang the U.S. Californian band The Beach Boys to The- Del - Vikings Come Go With Me Hit and called their polyphonic singing as a model for her own singing style.
Discography
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