Mel Carter

Mel Carter was spirit music in its most vanilla, if indeed he could possibly be characterized like a spirit singer whatsoever. Although he do record for Sam Cooke’s SAR label in the first ’60s, by enough time he reached his industrial maximum with Imperial in the center of the 10 years, he was focusing on middle-of-the-road pop ballads. These in fact charted substantially higher on the simple listening charts compared to the pop types, his biggest smash becoming the very best Ten pop strike “Keep Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me” (1965), an upgrade of a structure that predated the rock and roll era. He previously several additional Best 40 entries on the following year (“Music group of Platinum” and “(Suddenly) My Center Sings”), and a few additional big easy hearing sellers, sounding sometimes like a even more nervous and somewhat up-tempo Johnny Mathis. “Keep Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me” may be the track he’ll be kept in mind for, long lasting as an oft-played radio oldie for many years after its launch.