BONNIE LOU

Chanteuse US née Mary Joan Katt, en 1924 à Bloomington (Illinois). Bonnie Lou a enregistré pour King et Fraternity Records.
Elle fut une chanteuse régulière sur le Midwestern Hayride (WLW, Cincinnati, Ohio) en 1956.

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Talents : Singer, Yodeler, Guitar, Fiddle
Style musical : Singing Cowboy, Yodeling

1945	78 t. KING 513 (US)	.	Tennessee Wig Walk / Daddy-O
03/1953	SP KING 1192 (US)	.	Seven Lonely Days / Just Out Of Reach
04/1953	SP KING 1213 (US)	.	Scrap Of Paper / Dancin' With Someone
07/1953	SP KING 1237 (US)	.	Tennessee Wig Walk / Hand Me Down Heart
11/1953	SP KING 1272 (US)	.	Papaya Mama / Since You Said Goodbye
03/1954	SP KING 1318 (US)	.	Welcome Mat / Don't Stop Kissin' Me Goodnight
08/1954	SP KING 1365 (US)	.	Wait For Me Darling / Blue Tennessee Rain
1954	SP KING 1384 (US)	.	Two Step Side Step / Please Don't Laugh When I Cry
01/1955	SP KING 1414 (US)	.	Tennessee Mambo / Train Whistle Blues
02/1955	SP KING 45-1436 (US)	.	Tweedle Dee / The Finger Of Suspicion
1955	SP KING 45-1445 (US)	.	A Rusty Old Halo / Danger, Heartbreak Ahead
06/1955	SP KING 45-1476 (US)	.	Old Faithful And True Love / Drop Me A Line
10/1955	SP KING 45-4835 (US)	.	Daddy-O / Dancing In My Socks
1955	EP ODEON MOE 2026 (F)		Tweedle Dee / The Finger Of Suspicion / Tennessee Mambo / Train Whistle Blues
01/1956	SP KING 45-1506 (US)	.	Miss The Love / Barnyard Hop
01/1956	SP KING 45-4864 (US)	.	Miss The Love / Daddy-O
02/1956	SP KING 45-4895 (US)	.	Little Miss Bobby Sox / Beyond The Shadows Of A Doubt
03/1956	SP KING 45-4900 (US)	.	Bo Weevil / Chaperone
1956	SP KING 45-4919 (US)	.	Huckleberry Pie / No One
07/1956	SP KING 45-4948 (US)	.	One Track Love / No Rock 'n' Roll Tonight
1956	SP KING 1279 (US)	.	Lonesome Lover / I Turn To You
1956	EP KING 335 (US)		BONNIE LOU SINGS
1957	SP KING 45-5009 (US)	.	I Want You / Easy Love Easy Kisses
04/1957	SP KING 45-5033 (US)	.	Kit 'n' Kaboodle / Takes Two
07/1957	SP KING 45-5063 (US)	.	Teenage Wedding / Runnin' Away
1957	SP KING 45-5094 (US)	.	I'm Available / Waiting In Vain
01/1958	SP KING 45-5110 (US)	.	BONNIE & RUSTY - La Dee Dah / Let The School Bell Ring, Ding A Ling
1958	SP FRATERNITY F-808 (US)	.	No One Ever Lost More / Have You Ever Be Lonely
06/1958	SP FRATERNITY F-812 (US)	.	Friction Heat / I Give My Love To You
1958	EP KING 389 (US)		DADDY-O
11/1960	SP KING 45-5425 (US)	.	Tweedle Dee / Daddy-O
1962	SP TODD 1073 (US)	.	Be Tender / 24 Hours Of Loneliness
1964	SP KING 45-5865 (US)	.	Tennessee Wig Walk / Seven Lonely Days
1967	SP GUSTO 2036 (US)	.	Tennessee Wig Walk / Daddy-O

1958	LP 12" KING 595 (US)		BONNIE LOU SINGS - Tennessee Wig-Walk / Teen Age Wedding / Papaya Mama / The Texas Polka / I'm Available / Seven Lonely Days / Waiting In Vain / Runnin' Away / Daddy-O / No Rock 'n' Roll Tonight / Tennessee Mambo / No Heart At All / Dancin' In My Socks / Bo-Weevil / Miss The Love (That I've Been Dreaming Of) / Little Miss Bobby Sox
05/2000	CD WESTSIDE 102 (UK)		DOIN' THE TENNESSEE WIG WALK - Just Out Of Reach (Of My Two Empty Arms) / Seven Lonely Days / Dancin' With Someone / Tennessee Wig Walk / Pa-Paya Mama / Don't Stop Kissing Me Goodnight / Huckleberry Pie (take 1) / Blue Tennessee Rain / Two Step, Side Step / Train Whistle Blues / Tennessee Mambo / Drop Me A Line / Tweedle Dee (take 1) / Daddy-O / The Barnyard Hop / Dancing In My Socks / Lonesome Lover / Little Miss Bobby Sox / No Rock'n'Roll Tonight / Bo Weevil / I Want You / Kit'n'Kaboodle (take 1) / Teenage Wedding / La Dee Dah / Kit'n'Kaboodle (take 2 - master) / Tweedle Dee (take 3 - master)

Bonnie Lou


From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Bonnie Lou (born Mary Jo Kath October 27, 1924 in Talawanda, Indiana) is an American Rock & Roll and Country Music singer. During the mid 1950s, Rock & Roll was the hottest selling music on the market. Few women however ventured into this territory, like Bonnie Lou. Bonnie Lou was one of the first female Rock & Roll stars who proved to the public that female singers could indeed sing Rock & Roll.
Like most Rock & Roll singers during the 1950s, Bonnie Lou's singles were also Country Music hits.
Early life and rise to fame
Bonnie Lou's real name is Mary Jo Kath, and she was born in 1924 in Illinois. Mary grew up listening to Patsy Montana and her band "The Prairie Ramblers", and was greatly inspired by her. Mary learned how to yodel, which was from the help of her Swiss grandmother. As a child she learned how to play two instruments, the violin and guitar. By the young age of 16, she was singing and performing on a local radio show in Bloomington, Illinois. By age 18, Mary went on a bigger radio show, which aired in Kansas City, Missouri. Her exposure on this radio show in Kansas City, helped her land a job as a singer on WLW Radio in Cincinnati, Ohio, where station executive Bill McCluskey hired Mary as a singer a yodeler for his radio show called Midwestern Hayride Country & Western Radio Program. McCluskey was the one who gave Mary Jo the stage name she would be known by for the rest of her life, "Bonnie Lou". While on the radio show in Cincinnati, Lou performed regularly with Country Music girl group the Girls of the Golden West, which Lou listened to as a child.
Bonnie Lou continued radio performances until the end of the 1940s. Her radio performances were even cut to acetate and released to the public. However, Bonnie Lou never truly broke as a recording artist until the 1950s.

Country and rock & roll star in the 50s

In 1953, Lou signed on with her first record company called King Records in Cincinnati, Ohio. In the beginning stages of her recording career, Lou recorded Country Music material and released it. Bonnie soon had big Country Music hits with "Tennessee Wig Walk" and "Seven Lonely Days". Both songs were Top 10 Country hits. The flip side of her hit "Seven Lonely Days" featured the song "Just Out of Reach", which would later be covered by other Country singers, like Patsy Cline, Billie Jo Spears, Jean Shepard, and k.d. Lang.
Soon, Bonnie started recording Rockabilly or Rock & Roll. In 1954, she recorded the song "Two-Step Side-Step", which was written by Murry Wilson, who is the father of The Beach Boys, Carl, Brian, and Dennis. In 1955, she released her first Rock & Roll record called "Daddy-O". The song was a Top 15 Pop hit that year, and turned Lou into a major Rock & Roll star overnight. The song was later covered by The Fontaine Sisters on the Dot Records label. It wasn't until 1958 though that Bonnie had another hit, this a duet with Rusty York called "La Dee Dah". They soon reorded a Teen Pop song together called "I Let the School Bell Ding-a-Ling". Soon, Lou left the King label for another Cincinnati record label called Fraternity. She released several different singles for Fraternity, one of which were as successful as her singles for the King label.

Later career and personal life today

Bonnie spent more and more of her later career on television, co-hosting the Paul Dixon Show in Cincinnati. But in keeping faithful to her Country Music roots, she also became a regular on WLWT's Midwestern Hayride, (a show inspired by the legendary Shreveport-based Louisiana Hayride) until it went off the air in the early 70s. After Dixon's death in late 1974, Lou quietly went into retirement and settled in Cincinnati, with her husband Milt, who she has claimed as one of her biggest supporters. They currently own homes in Cincinnati, Ohio and Cape Coral, Florida. After marrying Milt, Lou reverted back to her real name Mary Jo, and as Okum's wife took his last name for herself. The couple is now retired and spend part of their time in Florida and Cincinnati.
In 2000, the CD, Bonnie Lou - Doin' the Tennessee Walk - The Best of the King Years was released, featuring all of her big hits under King Records.

Charted singles

Year	Single	U.S. Country Singles	U.S. Pop Singles	Album
1953	"Seven Lonely Days"	7	-	Bonnie Lou: Doin' the Tennessee Walk
1953	"Tennessee Wig Walk"	6	-	Bonnie Lou: Doin' the Tennessee Wig Walk
1955	"Daddy-O"	-	14	Bonnie Lou: Doin' the Tennessee Wig Walk
1958	"Lah Dee Dah" (with Rusty York)	-	-	Lah Dee Dah

Source :: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonnie_Lou

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Bonnie Lou: Seven Lonely Days