Sue Thompson

Sue Thomson ( born July 19, 1926 in Nevada, Missouri; civil Eva Sue McKee ) is an American pop and country singer. In the 1960s, she was represented several times on the Hot 100 charts.

Life

Made famous by her distinctive voice, Sue Thompson had several storytelling hits before they walked in the early 1960s to the mature country performer in the seventies. Even with seven years ago when she was still called Eva Sue McKee, she sang on stage country songs and accompanied himself on the guitar. After her family moved to San Jose, she went there during their teenage years on a local television show. During the Second World War, Thompson worked in a munitions factory, and got married at the age of 20 years, a daughter. However, the marriage lasted only three years, after which she began performing in clubs in Northern California again. After the victory in a competition for young singers, band leader and moderator Dude Martin became aware of Thompson. Martin offered her to participate in his band and was later her second husband. Both took on some duet plates, and finally succeeded Sue Thompson, complete with Mercury in 1950 a contract for solo albums, had seven years inventory.

A year later, she met the country singer Hank Penny learn who ran a joint show with her husband. They divorced Martin and married Penny. Both initially moderated in Los Angeles for two years a TV show and then moved to Las Vegas, where they performed in the casinos. Together as individually they released a series of records with Decca, but could land any hits. The late fifties Sue Thompson worked on the side of Red Foley on the composition of the musical Grand Ole Opry. After a three-year contract period without it closed after it had published in 1960 under the name Taffy Thomas a plate at Columbia, in 1961 a record deal with Hickory Records from and had a year later with Sad Movies and Norman two titles in the top 10 of the pop charts. Until the mid-sixties it was able to successfully bind their audience itself, which was considerably younger than the now almost forty year olds, but was fascinated by the extremely youthful -sounding voice.

After Sue Thompson Paper Tiger had their last major label success in early 1965, they turned back to the country music too, with which it was until 1976 still listed twelve times in the country charts. In 1972, she took with Don Gibson on three duet albums. As from 1976 stagnated her record sales, she turned back to the casinos in Las Vegas. After they had separated in 1963 from her third husband, Hank Penny, she married a fourth time. It remained now settled in Las Vegas and had to in the nineties now and then public appearances.

Hot 100 Singles with Billboard

Sue Thompson in Europe

With the change to the record company Hickory Thompson's panels were also distributed in Europe. In the UK it was Hickory himself, while the Dutch company Funckler took over the sales on the continent, including in Germany. In the German charts Thompson was able to place only with Norman. In the music market in the title (Catalog Funckler 45059 ) came in the top 50, where he reached the rank 27 best placement within ten weeks on 14 July 1962. In Britain it took until 1965 before the New Musical Express the title of Paper Tiger (Catalog Hickory 1006) quoted for one week at number 30. In Germany CBS released under No 1858, a German -language cover version of Paper Tiger with Sue Thompson titled Blonde Tiger with a text by Ralph Siegel.