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50s Rock And Roll (Popcorn Oldies) / Strollers - A & B-Side - King Records 45-5344 (release 1960) BY Trinidad Lopez III aka "Trini Lopez" Born: May 15, 1937 (Dallas, Texas, USA) died: August 11, 2020 (Palm Springs, California, USA) from complications of Covid-19. (1) Recorded September, 25 1959 King Recording Studio, 1540 Brewester Ave., Cincinnati, Ohio (2) February, 26 1959 (same place)
Trini Lopez formed his first band in Wichita Falls, Texas, at the age of 15.
Around 1955 - 56 Trini Lopez and his band worked at The Vegas Club, a nightclub owned by Jack Ruby, the nightclub owner who assassinated Lee Harvey Oswald.
In 1957, at the recommendation of Buddy Holly's father, Trini and his group "The Big Beats" went to producer Norman Petty in Clovis, New Mexico.
Petty secured a contract for them with Columbia Records, which released the single "Clark's Expedition" - "Big Boy", both instrumental.
Trini Lopez left the group and made his first solo recording,
His own composition "The Right To Rock", for the Dallas-based Volk Records, and then signed with King Records in 1959, recording more than a dozen singles for that label, none of which charted.
In late 1962, after the King contract expired, Lopez followed up on an offer by producer Snuff Garrett to join the post-Holly Crickets as vocalist.
After a few weeks of auditions in Los Angeles, that idea did not go through.
He landed a steady engagement at the nightclub PJ's, where his audience grew quickly.
He was heard there by Frank Sinatra, who had started his own label, Reprise Records, and who subsequently signed Lopez.
Trini Lopez recorded a series of upbeat tunes for Reprise Records during the mid-'60s, including a smash rendering of the folk standard "If I Had a Hammer" in 1963.
Lopez's hits capture the excitement of his live performances, and his driving renditions of "Kansas City" (1963), "Lemon Tree" (1965), and "I'm Comin' Home, Cindy" (1966) were substantial sellers.
Reportedly one of Dean Martin's favorite performers, Lopez hosted his own network TV variety program and co-starred as one of The Dirty Dozen in the popular 1967 movie.
Trini Lopez died on August 11, 2020, at the age of 83 from complications of the COVID-19 virus, One of his final projects was a song" If By Now" written to raise money for food banks hit hard by the pandemic. (R.I.P.)
#Tribute #rockandroll #popvocal #50s
50s Rock And Roll (Popcorn Oldies) / Strollers - A & B-Side - King Records 45-5344 (release 1960) BY Trinidad Lopez III aka "Trini Lopez" Born: May 15, 1937 (Dallas, Texas, USA) died: August 11, 2020 (Palm Springs, California, USA) from complications of Covid-19. (1) Recorded September, 25 1959 King Recording Studio, 1540 Brewester Ave., Cincinnati, Ohio (2) February, 26 1959 (same place)
Trini Lopez formed his first band in Wichita Falls, Texas, at the age of 15.
Around 1955 - 56 Trini Lopez and his band worked at The Vegas Club, a nightclub owned by Jack Ruby, the nightclub owner who assassinated Lee Harvey Oswald.
In 1957, at the recommendation of Buddy Holly's father, Trini and his group "The Big Beats" went to producer Norman Petty in Clovis, New Mexico.
Petty secured a contract for them with Columbia Records, which released the single "Clark's Expedition" - "Big Boy", both instrumental.
Trini Lopez left the group and made his first solo recording,
His own composition "The Right To Rock", for the Dallas-based Volk Records, and then signed with King Records in 1959, recording more than a dozen singles for that label, none of which charted.
In late 1962, after the King contract expired, Lopez followed up on an offer by producer Snuff Garrett to join the post-Holly Crickets as vocalist.
After a few weeks of auditions in Los Angeles, that idea did not go through.
He landed a steady engagement at the nightclub PJ's, where his audience grew quickly.
He was heard there by Frank Sinatra, who had started his own label, Reprise Records, and who subsequently signed Lopez.
Trini Lopez recorded a series of upbeat tunes for Reprise Records during the mid-'60s, including a smash rendering of the folk standard "If I Had a Hammer" in 1963.
Lopez's hits capture the excitement of his live performances, and his driving renditions of "Kansas City" (1963), "Lemon Tree" (1965), and "I'm Comin' Home, Cindy" (1966) were substantial sellers.
Reportedly one of Dean Martin's favorite performers, Lopez hosted his own network TV variety program and co-starred as one of The Dirty Dozen in the popular 1967 movie.
Trini Lopez died on August 11, 2020, at the age of 83 from complications of the COVID-19 virus, One of his final projects was a song" If By Now" written to raise money for food banks hit hard by the pandemic. (R.I.P.)
#Tribute #rockandroll #popvocal #50s
