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    Dee Clark (November 7, 1938 – December 7, 1990) was an American soul singer and songwriter best known for a string of R&B and pop hits in the late 1950s...
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  • "Raindrops" is a popular song written and recorded by American R&B singer Dee Clark, released in April 1961. The ballad is about a man who tries to convince...
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  • Dee Clark. In 1959, the track reached No. 2 on the U.S. R&B chart and No. 20 on the Billboard Hot 100. It was featured on his 1959 album, Dee Clark....
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  • Orah Dee Clark (1875–1965) was an American educator. She was the first superintendent for the first school in Anchorage, Alaska. In 2009, she was named...
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  • yet he wrote million-selling songs for Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Dee Clark and others. He also recruited other songwriters to write for Presley,...
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    Reed. (His association with Kool Gents member Dee Clark would continue, including playing guitar on Clark's 1961 solo hit "Raindrops".) He then returned...
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    the rocks." They had a son, Corey Dee Williams, born in 1960. In 1968, Williams married model and actress Marlene Clark in Hawaii. They divorced in 1971...
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  • David Houston Davie Allan & The Arrows The Deakins Dean Martin Dee Clark Dee Dee Sharp Dee Dee Warwick Deep Purple Delaney & Bonnie The Delfonics Delivery...
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    DeeDee Ann Jonrowe (née Stout; born December 20, 1953) is an American kennel owner and dog musher who is a three-time runner up in the Iditarod Trail Sled...
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  • would call her on the phone whenever it rained and play "Raindrops" by Dee Clark, and would thereafter or during, murder someone. Mary was nicknamed "The...
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    Old-Time Religion (category Dee Clark songs)
    ("Give Me That") "Old-Time Religion" (and similar spellings) is a traditional Gospel song dating from 1873, when it was included in a list of Jubilee songs...
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    "Pony Time" Chubby Checker 8 "Wheels" The String-A-Longs 9 "Raindrops" Dee Clark 10 "Wooden Heart" Joe Dowell 11 "Calcutta" Lawrence Welk 12 "Take Good...
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    They eventually changed their names to Dick St. John and Dee Dee Sperling (currently Dee Dee Phelps). They had their first hit in 1961 when "The Mountain's...
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  • television, Clark portrayed Janet Lawson, the fiancée of Lamont Sanford in the 1970s sitcom Sanford and Son. In 1968, Clark married Billy Dee Williams in...
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  • Dee Clark hit "How About That". Going into the recording industry, Troy worked as a backup vocalist for Atlantic Records alongside Dionne and Dee Dee...
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  • to Go" – Jim Reeves "Hey Little Girl" - Dee Clark "High Hopes" – Frank Sinatra "How About That" - Dee Clark "I'm Blue Again" – Patsy Cline "I Only Have...
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  • Your Heart"), Betty Everett ("The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss)"), Dee Clark ("Raindrops"), and Gene Chandler ("Duke of Earl"). Vee Jay was also the...
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  • Dee Clark. In 1958, the track reached No. 3 on the U.S. R&B chart and No. 21 on the Billboard Hot 100. It was featured on his 1959 album, Dee Clark....
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    built in the 1970s on land donated by Henry and Bertha TeKolste. Orah Dee Clark, the first superintendent of Alaska schools, was born in Firth. "ArcGIS...
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  • Whispering Grass (category Dee Clark songs)
    "Whispering Grass (Don't Tell the Trees)" is a popular song written by Fred Fisher and his daughter Doris Fisher. The notion of "whispering grass" which...
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  • Fever (Little Willie John song) (category Dee Clark songs)
    "Fever" is a song written by Eddie Cooley and Otis Blackwell, who used the pseudonym "John Davenport". It was originally recorded by American R&B singer...
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  • Dee Dee Sharp (born Dione LaRue; September 9, 1945, in Philadelphia) is an American R&B singer, who began her career recording as a backing vocalist in...
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  • Just Keep It Up (category Dee Clark songs)
    "Just Keep It Up" is a song written by Otis Blackwell and performed by Dee Clark. In 1959, the track reached No. 9 on the U.S. R&B chart, No. 18 on the...
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    record company (home to such R&B stars as Gene Chandler, Jerry Butler, and Dee Clark) as a regional manager and later became a regional manager for Liberty...
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  • How About That (song) (category Dee Clark songs)
    is a song written by Doris Payne and Frank Augustus and performed by Dee Clark. In 1959, the track reached No. 10 on the U.S. R&B chart and No. 33 on...
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    lasted until 1966, produced recordings by Jerry Butler, Betty Everett, Dee Clark, and Gene Chandler. Chess Records, mainly a blues and rock and roll label...
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    Checker Clifton Chenier Lou Christie June Christy Eugene Church Joe Clay Dee Clark Patsy Cline Rosemary Clooney Eddie Cochran Nat "King" Cole John Coltrane...
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  • Closer" is a 1964 song and single by Dee Clark, written by Bob Gaudio of the Four Seasons. The single was one of Clark's career bests, and broke him into...
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  • "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah" is a song composed by Allie Wrubel with lyrics by Ray Gilbert for the Disney 1946 live action and animated movie Song of the South...
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  • I'm Going Back to School (category Songs written by Dee Clark)
    "I'm Going Back to School" is a song written by and performed by Dee Clark. The single was released in New Zealand on the Allied International record...
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