Kathy Young

Best remembered on her behalf 1960 smash “ONE THOUSAND Stars,” teenager pop singer Kathy Little was created in Santa Ana, CA on Oct 21, 1945. Her big break implemented while participating in a taping of Wink Martindale’s regional tv program — one of the guests had been tranquility trio the Innocents, operating on top of the achievement of their strike “Honest I REALLY DO,” and following the present Young presented herself towards the group and their manufacturer, Indigo Information staffer Jim Lee. At Lee’s invitation, the 15-year-old Little inserted Indigo’s studios another week, and supported by the Innocents she documented a cover of Eugene Pearson as well as the Rivileers’ doo wop preferred “ONE THOUSAND Stars”; not merely do the record maximum at number 3 within the U.S. pop graphs that Halloween, it damaged the R&B TOP aswell. The follow-up “Content Birthday Blues” reached the quantity 30 place in March of 1961, although following attempts including “Magic May be the Night” along with a cover from the Platters traditional “THE FANTASTIC Pretender” didn’t achieve Best 40 position. When Lee remaining Indigo in 1962 to discovered the Monogram label, he brought Adolescent with him; there she documented as a single artist and a group of duets with Chris Montez. non-e recaptured her previous success, nevertheless, and after some last edges for the Starfire imprint, Youthful relocated to London, later on marrying the Walker Brothers’ John Maus.