Claudine Clark

Claudine Clark was the one-hit wonder in charge of the 1962 smash “Party Lamps,” and she was even more in charge of it than almost every other feminine singers could have been: she also wrote the music and lyrics herself. Created in Macon, GA, Clark was raised in Philadelphia and received formal musical teaching at the neighborhood Coombs University. She documented her first solitary, “Angel of Happiness,” in 1958 for the Herald label, nonetheless it didn’t attract much interest, as did a short stint at Gotham. Clark eventually captured on with Chancellor, a label most widely known for teenage idols like Fabian and Frankie Avalon. Her initial one, “Disappointed,” originally flopped, however when DJs began playing the Clark-penned turn side, “Party Lighting,” it became a big success. Sung from the idea of view of the teenage girl purchased to her area while her close friends were out having a great time, “Party Lighting” struck a chord and shot in to the Best Five on both pop and R&B graphs. Bizarrely, Chancellor implemented it using the morbid “Walkin’ Through a Cemetery,” which stalled Clark’s industrial momentum; by enough time “Walk Me House In the Party” seemed to continue the storyplot line, as soon as had transferred, and neither it nor “CALLING Video game” could recapture the public’s interest. Clark later attemptedto compose a rock and roll & move operetta, and in addition documented for Swan beneath the alias Pleasure Dawn, all to small avail.