If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks. This article is within the scope of WikiProject Women in Music, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Women in music on Wikipedia. Pop music Wikipedia:WikiProject Pop music Template:WikiProject Pop music Pop music articles emotional firepower of an African-American soul singer. over into the US pop charts, the timing was perfect for a white, female artist with the. In 1961, when rhythm and blues artists like Ray Charles and the Drifters were crossing. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks. Feisty white singer with a black soul voice. This article is within the scope of WikiProject Pop music, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of articles related to pop music on Wikipedia. She died March 30, 2004, at the age of 63. Two years later she was forced to undergo a tracheotomy operation, effectively ending her singing career. Women's History Wikipedia:WikiProject Women's History Template:WikiProject Women's History Women's History articles A year later, she was diagnosed with throat cancer, but recovered to cut several LPs for the Dutch market as well as 1982s Timi Yuro Today, produced and financed by longtime friend Willie Nelson. This article is within the scope of WikiProject Women's History, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Women's history and related articles on Wikipedia. Chicago Wikipedia:WikiProject Chicago Template:WikiProject Chicago Chicago articles This article is within the scope of WikiProject Chicago, which aims to improve all articles or pages related to Chicago or the Chicago metropolitan area. This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale. This article has been rated as Start-Class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale. R&B and Soul Music Wikipedia:WikiProject R&B and Soul Music Template:WikiProject R&B and Soul Music R&B and Soul Music articles This article is within the scope of WikiProject R&B and Soul Music, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of R&B and Soul Music articles on Wikipedia. Survivors include a son and daughter a sister eight grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.This article is supported by WikiProject Musicians (marked as Low-importance). Waronker sold Liberty Records to Avnet, an electronics corporation, for $12 million. Waronker discovered sultry singer Julie London at the 881 Club on La Cienega Boulevard, and within a year of Liberty Records' launch, London's "Cry Me a River" had gone gold. On the lookout for new talent to sign to his label, Mr. and then ran Liberty from a rented desk in a Beverly Hills office until 5:30 a.m. In the beginning, he worked at 20th Century Fox from 9 a.m. Waronker borrowed $2,000 from a Los Angeles bank and used half of the loan to arrange to have Capitol Records' pressing plant manufacture his initial releases. Using the furniture in his house as collateral, Mr. He was a member of the 20th Century Fox orchestra for three years before serving as orchestra contractor at the studio from 1939 to 1955, when he founded Liberty Records. After returning to Los Angeles, he played violin in a strip theater for a dollar a day and, after working in a club in San Francisco, played in the orchestra for the 1936 movie musical "Anything Goes." Waronker, who was born in Los Angeles, trained as a classical violinist in Europe as a teenager in the early 1930s. Other artists on the label included Julie London ("Cry Me a River"), Martin Denny ("Quiet Village"), Eddie Cochran ("Summertime Blues"), Johnny Burnette ("You're Sixteen"), Gene McDaniels ("Tower of Strength"), Buddy Knox ("Lovey Dovey") and Timi Yuro ("Hurt"). "The Chipmunk Song," released in 1958, sold more than 4 million copies in seven weeks and became a No. In the 1950s and 1960s, Liberty Records scored major hits with the novelty recordings of Alvin and the Chipmunks, a fictional musical group created by Ross Bagdasarian under the stage name David Seville. Simon Waronker, 90, the founder of the independent pop music label Liberty Records, died June 7 at his home in Beverly Hills, Calif.
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