Robert John

Best-known for his 1979 number 1 hit “Unfortunate Eyes,” pop singer Robert John actually charted for the very first time in 1958 like a doo wop singer, presenting him among the longest spans ever between an artist’s chart debut and 1st number one solitary. John was created Robert John Pedrick Jr. in Brooklyn in 1946; equipped with a distinctively high tenor tone of voice, he 1st documented for Big Best at age group 12, billed as Bobby Pedrick. His debut solitary, “White Dollars and Saddle Sneakers,” charted in 1958, as do the follow-up “Pajama Party” early another 12 months. Pedrick shuffled between a minimum of seven labels during the period of the ’60s, documenting several singles on the way that didn’t match his previous achievement. He led the short-lived group Bobby & the Games consoles in 1963, and in addition moonlighted as an archive maker, helming an obscure folk-pop solitary from the Carousel in 1967; the next year, he started billing himself as Robert John. In 1971, he authorized with Atlantic and quickly landed a high Ten smash having a remake of “The Lion Sleeps Tonight,” which demonstrated the vocal selection of his youngsters hadn’t changed very much; no more strikes were forthcoming, though, and John was delivered packaging. In 1979, he resurfaced on EMI using the recording Night Tunes, and past due that 12 months, the clean pop ballad “Sad Eye” went completely to number 1. No follow-up demonstrated nearly as well-known and John resumed his nomadic profession route; his last graph single arrived in 1983 having a remake of “Breads and Butter” on Motown.