Showing posts with label Annette Funicello. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Annette Funicello. Show all posts
Friday, June 19, 2009
(253) DICK DALE and the DEL-TONES SURF BEAT
The saxaphone, so present in the late 1950's rock and roll continues to wail in early 1960's surfing music! This was one of my favorites. Dick was probably the most popular performer of this genre. Click on the title above to get to a link for Dick Dale's official site. Dick has been treating for cancer but is alive and kicking!
The line up on this front photo on this video actually has my friend John Ashley in it. It goes from left to right Dick Dale, John Ashley, Frankie Avalon, and Annette.. Wes
Tuesday, December 4, 2007
(83) BOBBY DARIN EARLY 1960'S STYLE / CHRISTINE WHITE
By the end of 1960, Bobby Darin had four Gold records and had won two Grammy awards and he had become an actor - a movie star - too. He had moved to Los Angeles, California, in order to make the movie "Come September." Sometimes I wonder if he lead the parade of us singer-songwriter-musician-singer-entertainer types from New York to the West Coast.
"Come September"was a light comedy. Now my friend Frankie Avalon had been making the beach blanket movies and it had been a while since anyone really expected me to be The Next James Dean. He got teamed up with Annette Funicello. Bobby Darin was teamed up with Sandra Dee, a child star who had matured to about sixteen years old. Bobby was about twenty four when they met, and Bobby, who was aggressive for anything he wanted badly - like fame and fortune - went after Sandra. They were married.
And well, it was a volatile situation.
When Sylvester Cross got wind that I knew Bobby Darin, he decided I should pitch American Music songs, including a couple I wrote, to him in person. Why not another Gold for the singer who had "Splish Splash," and "Dream Lover?"
I did, and guess who I ran to at the movie studio when I went to pitch Bobby?
My old friend Christine White!
Fate... that's what it was.
Christine White, James Dean's great friend, who I'd met in 1956 on the street in Hollywood on my first tourist trip down from Oregon, was in town working on a television series. She invited me to one of her celebrity filled house parties in the Hollywood Hills and that reignited our friendship!
NEW LINK TO BOBBY DARIN'S OFFICIAL SITE!
"Come September"was a light comedy. Now my friend Frankie Avalon had been making the beach blanket movies and it had been a while since anyone really expected me to be The Next James Dean. He got teamed up with Annette Funicello. Bobby Darin was teamed up with Sandra Dee, a child star who had matured to about sixteen years old. Bobby was about twenty four when they met, and Bobby, who was aggressive for anything he wanted badly - like fame and fortune - went after Sandra. They were married.
And well, it was a volatile situation.
When Sylvester Cross got wind that I knew Bobby Darin, he decided I should pitch American Music songs, including a couple I wrote, to him in person. Why not another Gold for the singer who had "Splish Splash," and "Dream Lover?"
I did, and guess who I ran to at the movie studio when I went to pitch Bobby?
My old friend Christine White!
Fate... that's what it was.
Christine White, James Dean's great friend, who I'd met in 1956 on the street in Hollywood on my first tourist trip down from Oregon, was in town working on a television series. She invited me to one of her celebrity filled house parties in the Hollywood Hills and that reignited our friendship!
NEW LINK TO BOBBY DARIN'S OFFICIAL SITE!
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