Dion Week No 6: Song for Sam Cooke (Here In America)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpbiIjN0Fp8 Because he was sometimes on the same bill as Sam Cooke, Dion became good friends with the...
Dion Week No 5: Every Day (That I'm with You)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHee9U5qREM Dion finally spoked publicly about the tragic Winter Dance Party tour (see last post) in...
Dion Week No 4: Daddy Rollin' (in your Arms) - Dion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rmt30n2CNfc Unlike many sixties rock luminaries that came from New York, Dion DiMucci came from a poor...
Dion Week No 3: Sandy - Dion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlZY86fPcYQ Several of Dion's original hits had girl's names in their titles: "Runaround Sue", "Little...
Dion Week 2: Lovers Who Wonder - Dion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HCNyPVQywA Dion and the Belmonts had their first hit in 1958 with "I Wonder Why" (see yesterday's post)...
Dion Week 1: I Wonder Why - Dion and the Belmonts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UfQoNczFVY Dion was one of the American artists whose career was all but wiped out due to the "British...
I Don't Know What You've Got (But It's Got Me) - Little Richard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMzX72GOOEQ Today is Little Richard's birthday. Sadly we lost him in May of this year so we should...
Abraham, Martin and John - Marvin Gaye
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AckwRAMMVYI In the small hours of the night when I was working on Henry Ward, I was sometimes required to...
Nightshift - the Commodores
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrkEDe6Ljqs While "Sweet Soul Music" listed the male royalty of soul music, the Royal Earlswood Hospital...
Otis Sleep On - Arthur Conley
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXwA2Zl9s2o Many of the residents of the Royal Earlswood Hospital were aged men who'd been there for...
