Dale Wright
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Dale Wright (born Harlan Dale Riffe, February 4, 1938 – April 15, 2007)[1] was an early American rock & roll singer.
Wright was born in Middletown, Ohio. He started his career as a disc jockey in Dayton, Ohio who signed to Fraternity Records after playing a song he'd written on the air.[2] He recorded a sizable body of work for Fraternity in the late 1950s, some of it with backing band The Rock-Its, and hit the Billboard Hot 100 twice in 1958 with the singles "She's Neat" (#38) and "Don't Do it" (#77).[3] By the early 1960s he had been dropped from Fraternity but continued recording for smaller labels well into the decade.
After his success as a singer waned, Wright returned to radio, hosting a talk show on WNVL in Nicholasville, Kentucky for 20 years before becoming program director at sister station WCKU.[4] He died in Lexington, Kentucky on April 15, 2007.[5]
References
- ↑ Joel Whitburn, The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits. 7th edn, 2000
- ↑ Richie Unterberger, Biography. Allmusic.
- ↑ Billboard Singles, Allmusic.com
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