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Sincerely" is a
popularPopular music belongs to any of a number of musical genres, and stands in contrast to art music, and traditional music which was disseminated orally...
songA song is a metrical composition intended or adapted for singing, especially one in rhymed stanzas; a lyric; a ballad....
written by
Harvey FuquaHarvey Fuqua, , is an African-American soul singer, songwriter, record producer, and record label executive....
and
Alan FreedAlbert James Freed , generally known as Alan Freed and also as "Moondog", was an American disc-jockey who became internationally known for promoting African-American rhythm and blues music on the radio in the United States and Europe under the name of rock and roll...
and published in
1954-Events:*Frank Sinatra wins the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in From Here to Eternity, 1953; resuscitating his singing career in the process*Bing Crosby receives a Best Actor nomination for his work in The Country Girl...
.
"
Sincerely" is a
popularPopular music belongs to any of a number of musical genres, and stands in contrast to art music, and traditional music which was disseminated orally...
songA song is a metrical composition intended or adapted for singing, especially one in rhymed stanzas; a lyric; a ballad....
written by
Harvey FuquaHarvey Fuqua, , is an African-American soul singer, songwriter, record producer, and record label executive....
and
Alan FreedAlbert James Freed , generally known as Alan Freed and also as "Moondog", was an American disc-jockey who became internationally known for promoting African-American rhythm and blues music on the radio in the United States and Europe under the name of rock and roll...
and published in
1954-Events:*Frank Sinatra wins the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in From Here to Eternity, 1953; resuscitating his singing career in the process*Bing Crosby receives a Best Actor nomination for his work in The Country Girl...
.
Originally recorded by
The MoonglowsThe Moonglows were an influential American R&B and doo-wop group based in Cleveland, Ohio.-Early years:Originally formed in their native Louisville, Kentucky as the Crazy Sounds, the group moved to Cleveland, where legendary disc jockey Alan Freed renamed them the Moonglows...
, who scored a number one single on the
Juke BoxR&B/Hip-Hop Songs, formerly the Black Singles Chart, is a chart released weekly by Billboard in the United States.The chart, initiated in 1942, is used to track the success of popular music songs in urban, or primarily African American, venues...
and number twenty
popThe Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday; while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...
hit with their original recording. . The biggest-selling version was a
cover versionIn popular music, a cover version, or simply cover, is a new rendition of a previously recorded, commercially released song or popular song...
recorded by
The McGuire SistersThe McGuire Sisters were a singing trio in American popular music. The group was composed of three sisters; Christine McGuire , Dorothy McGuire , and Phyllis McGuire...
, entering the charts in
1954-Events:*Frank Sinatra wins the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in From Here to Eternity, 1953; resuscitating his singing career in the process*Bing Crosby receives a Best Actor nomination for his work in The Country Girl...
and reaching number one
the next year-Events:*January 1 - RCA victor announces a marketing plan called "Operation TNT." The label drops the list price on LPs from $5.95 to $3.98, EPs from $4.95 to $2.98, 45 EPs from $1.58 to $1.49 and 45's from $1.16 to $.89...
. Although many Rhythm & Blues collectors decry the cover version by the McGuire Sisters, which kept the Moonglows off the Pop charts, most overlook that the Moonglows' version stole lyrics from a 1951 Dominoes tune, "That's What You're Doing To Me." The bridge in both songs is almost identical: "Lord, won't you tell me/ Why I love that woman so?/ She doesn't want me/ But I'll never let her go."
Recorded versions
- Barry Manilow
Barry Manilow is an American singer-songwriter, musician, arranger, producer, conductor, entertainer, and performer, best known for such recordings as "I Write the Songs", "Mandy", "Weekend in New England" and "Copacabana"....
and Phyllis McGuire (2000)
- Paul Anka
Paul Albert Anka, OC is a Canadian singer, songwriter, and actor. He became a naturalized US citizen in 1990.Anka first became famous as a teen idol in the late 1950s and 1960s with hit songs like "Diana'", "Lonely Boy", and "Put Your Head on My Shoulder"...
- Louis Armstrong
Louis Daniel Armstrong , nicknamed Satchmo or Pops, was an American jazz trumpeter and singer from New Orleans, Louisiana....
(1956-Events:*January 1 - Blue Suede Shoes is released by Carl Perkins on the Sun Records label.*Cameo-Parkway Records formed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania by Kal Mann & Bernie Lowe.*Foundation of the Korean piano brand Young Chang....
)
- Barry Biggs
Barry Biggs Barry Biggs Barry Biggs (born 1947 (although some accounts list 1953, St. Andrew, Jamaica) is a reggae singer, best known in the UK for his cover of the Blue Magic song, "Sideshow", which got to #3 in the UK Singles Chart in 1976.-Career:...
- Rose Brennan
- Tony Castle and The Raiders
- Jill Day
Jill Day was a successful pop singer and actress in Britain in the 1950s and early 60s.-Career:...
- Kevin Dean
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- The Supremes
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- The Delfonics
The Delfonics are a pioneering Philadelphia soul singing group, most popular in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Their most notable hits include "La-La ", "Didn't I ," "Break Your Promise," "I'm Sorry," and "Ready or Not Here I Come "...
- Chenley Duffus
- Jackie Edwards
Wilfred Gerald "Jackie" Edwards was a musician and songwriter whose career took in ska, R&B, soul, rocksteady, reggae, and ballads.-Career:...
- The Forester Sisters
The Forester Sisters is an American country music vocal group consisting of sisters Kathy, June, Kim and Christy Forester. The quartet had commercial success in the 1980s, charting fifteen Top Ten on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, including the Number Ones "I Fell in Love Again Last...
(1988
This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1988.
- Events :
*January 3 - The Cinemax television special Roy Orbison and Friends, A Black and White Night, recorded on September 30, 1987 at the Coconut Grove in Los Angeles, California, USA, is...
)
- Connie Francis
Concetta Rosa Maria Franconero , known professionally as Connie Francis, is an American pop singer best known for several international hit songs including "Who's Sorry Now?," "Lipstick on Your Collar," "Where the Boys Are", and "Stupid Cupid." She topped the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart on...
(1959-Events:* 1959 Jimi Hendrix buys first electric guitar: a White Single pickup Supro Ozark 1560 S.*January 5 The first sessions for Ella Fitzgerald's George and Ira Gershwin Songbook are held....
)
- The Gatlin Brothers
- Maureen McGovern
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(1992
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)
- The McGuire Sisters
The McGuire Sisters were a singing trio in American popular music. The group was composed of three sisters; Christine McGuire , Dorothy McGuire , and Phyllis McGuire...
(1954-Events:*Frank Sinatra wins the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in From Here to Eternity, 1953; resuscitating his singing career in the process*Bing Crosby receives a Best Actor nomination for his work in The Country Girl...
)
- The Moonglows
The Moonglows were an influential American R&B and doo-wop group based in Cleveland, Ohio.-Early years:Originally formed in their native Louisville, Kentucky as the Crazy Sounds, the group moved to Cleveland, where legendary disc jockey Alan Freed renamed them the Moonglows...
(1954-Events:*Frank Sinatra wins the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in From Here to Eternity, 1953; resuscitating his singing career in the process*Bing Crosby receives a Best Actor nomination for his work in The Country Girl...
)
- Johnny Otis
Johnny Otis is an American blues and rhythm and blues pianist, vibraphonist, drummer, singer, bandleader, and impresario. Otis was one of the most prominent white figures in the history of Rhythm and Blues.-Personal life:Otis was born in Vallejo, California...
and The Jayos
- The Paris Sisters
The Paris Sisters were an American girl group from San Francisco, California.They are best remembered for two U.S...
- The Platters
The Platters were a successful vocal group of the early rock and roll era. Their distinctive sound was a bridge between the pre-rock Tin Pan Alley tradition, and the burgeoning new genre...
- The Tokens
The Tokens are an American male doo-wop vocal group from Brooklyn, New York. They are best-known for their chart-topping 1961 single, "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" .-Career:...
(1961-Events:*January 15 - Motown Records signs The Supremes*January 20 - Francis Poulenc's Gloria is premiered in Boston*February 12 - The Miracles' "Shop Around" becomes Motown's first million-selling single...
)
- Bobby Vee
Bobby Vee is an American pop music singer. According to Billboard magazine, Vee has had 38 Hot 100 chart hits, 10 of which hit the Top 20.-Career:...
- Jimmy Duran
- The Four Seasons
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(1963-Events:*January 1 - The Beatles start a 5 day tour in Scotland to support the release of their new single, "Love Me Do".*January 4 - At Cortina d'Ampezzo in Italy, Dalida receives a Juke Box Global Oscar for the year's most-played artist on juke boxes....
)
Song in Popular Culture
- In the 1982 film, "Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean
Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean is a 1982 Broadway play and, later, 1982 film written by Ed Graczyk; the stage and screen versions were both directed by Robert Altman, and starred Sandy Dennis, Cher, Mark Patton , Karen Black, Sudie Bond and Kathy Bates.-Plot:It tells the...
", the character of Sissy, played by Cher, sings the opening lyrics of the song.
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