Marvin Rainwater
Marvin Rainwater ( born July 2, 1925 in Wichita, Kansas, † September 17, 2013 in Aitkin, Minnesota, native Marvin Karlton Percy ) was an American country and rockabilly singer and songwriter. In 1958 he had a number one hit with the song " Whole Lotta Woman" in the UK.
- 2.1 Singles
- 2.2 albums
- 4.1 Literature
- 4.2 External links
Biography
Rainwater grew up during the Great Depression in Oklahoma. He taught himself to play the piano and wanted to be a pianist. But when he was 15, he got in an accident a part of the left thumb. He later studied veterinary medicine and was during the time in the U.S. Navy pharmacist mate. During this time he began to write songs.
Career
With the song I Gotta Go Get My Baby by his brother Ray in 1953 gave a TV appearance on Arthur Godfrey, in his show, he sang. Already at this time he always wore Indian clothes and used Cherokee image with headband, leather jacket and the Indian names for many years, he himself had ancestors among the Native Americans. I Gotta Go Get My Baby became a U.S. hit in a cover of Teresa Brewer. In the 1950s, Rainwater appeared regularly in Godfrey's shows on radio and television on. Four years he was also a regular guest on Red Foley's Ozark Jubilee show, there he discovered before a performance the young Brenda Lee, she imagined Red Foley and thus probably brought their world career in motion.
In his country songs he took from the mid- 1950s more and more elements of rockabilly and rock ' n' roll on. His first hit was in 1957 Gonna Find Me a Bluebird, the number 3 in the U.S. reached the country charts and number 18 in the pop charts. A number of other songs that he recorded for MGM Records, entered the charts at the end of the 1950s; the best known were Whole Lotta Woman ( the British number one, however, came in the U.S. only at # 60 ) and I Dig You Baby, also in 1958 ranked 19th in the UK. His duet with Connie Francis The Majesty of Love came to just under the top 100 on the U.S. charts for one week. In July 1959 he succeeded to the title Half-breed there its recent listing. In December 1959, Rainwater took a composed by John D. Loudermilk song under the title The Pale Faced Indian ( " The pale-faced Indians " ) on; it is the original recording later Indian Reservation (The Lament of the Cherokee Reservation Indian) renamed lament the fate of the Indians.
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After the success appeared demo recordings he had made for Four Star Records, records on the cheap in supermarkets on what harm his reputation. Problems with the vocal cords made for a break of his career; with his brother Ray, he founded the unsuccessful country music magazine Trail. In the early 1960s he then took on some records with Link Wray & the Raymen and later published several plates at Warner and United Artists, as well as his own Brave label.
For Faron Young, he wrote the song I Miss You Already, which was also for Billy Joe Royal at a U.S. hit. Other well-known songs were Tennessee Hound Dog Yodel and Albino Pink Eyed Stallion. In 1971 he went to Europe for the first time after twelve years on tour again; in the UK, he took an LP with the London band on Country Fever ( with Albert Lee on guitar ).
In the 1970s, fell ill Rainwater of esophageal cancer and moved to Aitkin County in northern Minnesota, where he recovered from his illness. He died after a brief illness in September 2013.
Discography
Singles
- Mockingbird Hill (cover of Patti Pages # 1 hit from 1951 )
- Whole Lotta Woman ( UK # 1 hit, Johnny Kidd and the Pirates who covered the song in 1964; Vanessa Redgrave sang it in the film " Georgy Girl "
- I Dig You Baby ( UK # 19 Hit)
- So You Think You've Got Troubles ( Harry Nilsson coverte this song 1966)
- Tough Top Cat; Honky Tonk In Your Heart; Do It Now; produced by Ray Vernon aka Vernon Wray (brother of Link Wray ); Band = Link Wray 's Wraymen