† Remembering - DEC 7: 1990 – Dee Clark, American singer (b. 1938) Dee Clark (November 7, 1938 – December 7, 1990) was an American soul singer best known for a string of R&B and pop hits in the late 1950s and early 1960s, including the song Raindrops, which became a million-seller in the United States in 1961. He was born Delectus Clark in Blytheville, Arkansas, and moved to Chicago in 1941. Clark embarked on a solo career in 1957. Over the next four years he landed several moderate hits, two of which (Just Keep It Up and Hey Little Girl) reached the top 20 on the Billboard Hot 100). His biggest single, Raindrops, a power ballad augmented by heavy rain and thunder sound effects and Clarks swooping falsetto, was released in the spring of 1961 and became his biggest hit. O:) https://youtube/watch?v=WUnwOwz6OvQ
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