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James Frederick Rodgers (September 18, 1933 – January 18, 2021) was an American pop singer. Rodgers had a run of hits and mainstream popularity in the 1950s and 1960s. His string of crossover singles ranked highly on the Billboard Pop Singles, Hot Country and Western Sides, and Hot Rhythm and Blues Sides charts; in the 1960s, Rodgers had more modest successes with adult contemporary mu
Jimmie Rodgers, a sweet-voiced singer who scaled the music charts in the 1950s and ’60s before his career was disrupted by a head injury, died Monday in Palm Desert, Calif. He was 87. Rodgers ...
On May 16, 1953, the first Jimmie Rodgers Memorial Festival was held in Meridian. The festival featured appearances by country music singers and other entertainers who were influenced by Rodgers, as well as his family members. The festival was celebrated in an intermittent fashion until it became a recurring event starting in 1972. [136]
In the late 1990s, they reunited with the Mystics and the Classics for the Brooklyn Reunion Show. Lead singer Jimmy Gallagher left the Passions in 1960 to join the Navy, but later sang with The Legends of Doo Wop in 1998. [3]
In 1986, Gary Morris' version of the song was a country hit, peaking at number twenty-seven. [5]Ricky Nelson covered the song on his 1957 debut album Ricky.; In 1965, the Ray Conniff Singers covered the song on their album Invisible Tears.
“Jimmy passed away peacefully on the night of September 1st surrounded by his family, friends, music and dogs. “He lived his life like a song till the very… Jimmy Buffett, singer-songwriter ...
Lola Dee, a popular singer in the 1950s who toured with Bob Hope, Jimmy Durante and Johnnie Ray, has died. She was 95. The pop singer, who was signed to Columbia and Mercury labels in the ’50s ...
The Ravens were an American R&B vocal group, formed in 1946 by Jimmy Ricks and Warren Suttles. [1] They were one of the most successful and most influential vocal quartets of the period, and had several hits on the R&B chart in the late 1940s and early 1950s.