James Darren

   
Artist: James Darren

   Genre(s): 
Other
   

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Discography:


   
 Hokey Pokey

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 3

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Even more than the typical stripling perfection, James Darren's roots in authentic rock music & roll were tenuous. Darren began recording for Colpix in the late '50s at the beginning of a screen career that saw him star in numerous films, to the highest degree notably Gidget. More at home with standard MOR, demonstrate tune-like material than rock music, and not much of a isaac Bashevis Singer in whatsoever case, Darren was all the same marketed as a pop/rock performer to his preponderantly young distaff constituency. He ran off quite a few novelty-tinged strike singles in the former '60s, of which "Bye Cruel World," which made number ternary, was the biggest and c. H. Best. Top Brill Building pop songwriters -- including the Goffin-King, Mann-Weil, and Pomus-Shuman teams, as well as Bob Crewe, Gloria Shayne, and Howard Greenfield -- gave Darren material, albeit material that was well below their usual standards. He recorded quite a bit after his early-'60s prime, reaching the Top 40 in 1967 with "All" and charting as late as 1977 with "You Take My Heart Away." During the '90s, Darren co-starred on the Star Trek spin-off Deep Space Nine as hologram crooner Vic Fontaine, reprising songs from the series on the 1999 album This One's From the Heart.





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