Happy birthday to the late great Roy Hamilton (April 16, 1929 – July 20, 1969) an American singer, who achieved major success in the US R&B and pop charts in the 1950s. He is best known for his recordings of Youll Never Walk Alone, Unchained Melody and You Can Have Her.His final recordings were made in Memphis, Tennessee, at record producer Chips Momans American Group Productions studio, at the same time that Elvis Presley recorded there in early 1969.[citation needed] Songs released from those sessions were versions of James Carrs The Dark End of the Street, Conway Twittys Its Only Make Believe, and Angelica, a Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil song that had been submitted to Presley, but which he then turned over to Hamilton. Hamilton died later in 1969, not long after suffering a stroke, at age 40, in New Rochelle, New York. Hamiltons Youll Never Walk Alone disc was brought in from the US by a sailor friend of Gerry Marsden.[citation needed] As a result, Gerry & the Pacemakers recorded the track to further success. Hamilton was inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame in 2010.
Posted on: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 21:03:36 +0000
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