Who sang "Last Kiss" originally?
paul marble
recorded?
Thanks,
Paul Marble
Wmacson
Andy Selig
Andy Selig
andy....@horton.ednet.ns.ca
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Andy Selig wrote in message <3650a1b9...@news1.ns.sympatico.ca>...
M. Lowerr
> Does anyone know who originally recorded this song? And when it was
> recorded?
sorry.
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I'd love to hear it.
opp...@worldlynx.net
I found the 45 in a record store, and i bought it..waiting for my friend to
get home from colelge so i can use his turntable (mine really sux) he should
be home next week..when he is home, i'll encode it for you all..its really a
kewl song
Brian
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Robert Joseph Yasinsac
ixteen-year-old Jeanette Clark was out on a date in Barnesville, Georgia
on December 22, 1962, the Saturday before Christmas. She was with a
group
of friends in a '54 Chevrolet. J. L. Hancock, also sixteen, was
driving the
car in heavy traffic and while traveling on Highway 341, collided with
a
trailer truck. Jeanette, the driver and another teenager were killed,
and
two other teens in the car were seriously injured. Most had been
students
at Gordon Military College. It was a terribly gory accident and
provoked an
intense reaction in Barnesville.
Living about fifteen miles away in an old shack for which he was
paying $20
a month rent was Wayne Cochran, a white R&B singer and composer. Wayne
saw
accident after accident on the busy stretch of highway on which he
lived.
He had written a song about all the accidents and left it unfinished,
until
he heard about the tragedy in Barnesville. He completed the song and
dedicated it to the memory of Jeanette Clark. He called it Last Kiss.
Wayne sang the song locally and, when people liked it, he recorded it
for
the small Gala Records label. It caught on in Georgia, and Wayne tried
to
promote sales of the record the only way he knew how: he loaded a
bunch of
45's in the trunk of his car and went around selling them. It was not
very
effective. He later recorded the song for another record label, but
the
owner wouldn't promote it.
A recording executive in Fort Worth, Texas, Major Bill Smith [who had
produced Bruce Channel's Hey! Baby and Paul and Paula's Hey Paula]
heard
it. He liked the song. Major Bill Smith had a group in Fort Worth who
were
with his Josie label. This group, called the Cavaliers, had formed in
San
Angelo, Texas and consisted of Phil Trunzo, Bobby Woods, Jerry Graham,
and
George Croyle. Major Bill paired them with a twenty-two-year-old
singer
from Lufkin, Texas named John Frank Wilson. The record was released as
Last
Kiss, by J. Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers, on the Josie label. It
entered
the charts in September, 1964 and was a huge success.
J. Frank Wilson was born in 1941 in Lufkin, Texas and had worked as a
hospital orderly. He was in a terrible automobile accident himself in
Ohio
some time after Last Kiss became a hit. Wilson died in Lufkin in 1991.
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Major Bill Smith also died in the 90's. Wayne Cochran, who performed on
Jackie Gleason's television show in Miami in the 60's, is now a
preacher.
Last Kiss went as high as number two on the charts in 1964.
Oh, where oh where can my baby be
The Lord took her away from me
She's gone to heaven so I've got to be good
So I can see my baby when I leave ... this world
We were out on a date in my daddy's car
We hadn't driven very far
There in the road, straight ahead
A car was stalled, the engine was dead
I couldn't stop, so I swerved to the right
I'll never forget the sound that night
The cryin' tires, the bustin' glass
The painful scream that I ... heard last
[Chorus]
When I woke up the rain was pourin' down
There were people standing all around
Something warm was runnin' in my eyes
But I found my baby somehow that night
I raised her head, and then she smiled and said
Hold me darling for a little while
I held her close, I kissed her our last kiss
I found the love that I knew I would miss
Now she's gone, even though I hold her tight
I lost my love, my life ... that night
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paul marble (pma...@emerald.tufts.edu) wrote:
: Does anyone know who originally recorded this song? And when it was
: recorded?
: Thanks,
: Paul Marble
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