Phil Phillips

b. John Phillip Baptiste, 14 March 1931, Lake Charles, Louisiana, USA. Phillips had written his one strike, ‘Ocean Of Like’, to win over a would-be sweetheart in 1958. He was released to maker George Khoury, who documented the song in the Goldband Documenting Studio room and released it by himself label, acknowledged to Phil Phillips AS WELL AS THE Twilights. Even though the song never really had the meant effect upon the lady, the single offered well locally, leading to the bigger Mercury Records picking right up distribution as well as the ballad reached #2 2 in america national graph and #1 1 in the R&B graph. The music was typical from the ‘swamp-rock’ audio that Cajun community from the bayou of southern Louisiana was creating by such performers as Pole Bernard, Tommy McLain, and Johnnie Allan. Phillips documented several other tracks during the following couple of years, but under no circumstances again were able to graph. His song later on resurfaced documented by Marty Wilde (UK #3 3, 1959), Del Shannon as well as the Honeydrippers (a rock and roll supergroup with Robert Vegetable, Jimmy Web page, Jeff Beck, and Nile Rodgers of Chic), the second option nearly coordinating the unique’s efficiency by achieving the US #3 3 placement in 1985. In 1989, Phillips’ unique recording made information once again as the name music for Al Pacino’s film from the same name. Phillips worked well like a Louisiana disc jockey in the past due 80s.