(272) JO-ANN CAMPBELL : HIT MAKER IN HER OWN RITE

One of the singers I enjoyed performing live with and was proud to know was the talented Jo-ann Campbell, who was a hit-making singer-songwriter in her own rite.

In 1962 she had a hit with "The Girl From Wolverton Mountain", one of my favorite songs of hers, and had a couple albums out,

A southerner by birth, Joanne could put the twang into her singing voice and move doo wop to country.

Joanne dated my friend Bobby Darin just about before he met and married Sandra Dee. Like many of us her romances were reported, for better or worse, in fan magazines.

VIDEO REPLACED JAN 2014

(31) J0-ANN CAMPBELL : ROCKABILLY SINGER-SONGWRITER

While I was in New York, I often went out with the other guys to meet girls. But sometimes we invited a girl along with us to take another ride on the Staten Island Ferry or go out to the clubs to hear other performers. Singer-songwriter Jo-Ann Campbell was one of our favorite girls to come out with the guys. Jo-Ann and Bobby Darin had dated for a while before he met and married Sandra Dee.

I performed with Jo-Ann on a couple of stops during my own touring. She was a terrific lady and a great talent - one of the few women of the late 1950's who wrote many of her own songs that made it onto albums.


ROCKIN COUNTRY STYLE DISCOGRAPHY - JO-ANN CAMPBELL link above!