Joanie Sommers

Born: Feb 24, 1941 in Buffalo, NY

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Biography: Joanie Sommers scored her biggest chart success with "Johnny Get Angry" in 1962. The single, her second solo release, peaked at the number seven spot and charted for more than two months. Her first solo record, "One Boy," was a number from the musical Bye Bye Birdie and only hit number 54 in 1960. She ...Read full biography

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Positively the Most

Released: 1961

Label: WEA International

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Joanie Sommers was not so modestly heralded on the front album jacket as "the greatest discovery in singing...in the last fifteen years," and her debut did reveal a vivacious vocalist exhibiting a tremendous ...Read full review

Voice of the Sixties!

Released: 1961

Label: Warner Bros.

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Joanie Sommers' second Warner LP teams the singer with arranger Neal Hefti, an inspired pairing that yields some of the most vivacious music of her career. Although the album title trumpets Sommers as ...Read full review

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