Dale Wright

Dale Wright (b. Harlan Dale Riffe, Feb. 4, 1938, Middletown, Ohio; d. Apr. 15, 2007, Lexington, KY)[1] was an early American rock & roll singer.

Wright was a disc jockey in Dayton, Ohio who signed to Fraternity Records after playing a song he'd written on the air.[2] He recorded a sizable body of work for Fraternity in the late 1950s, some of it with backing band The Rock-Its, and hit the Billboard Hot 100 twice in 1958 with the singles "She's Neat" (#38) and "Don't Do it" (#77).[3] By the early 1960s he had been dropped from Fraternity but continued recording for smaller labels well into the decade.

After his success as a singer waned, Wright returned to radio, hosting a talk show on WNVL in Nicholasville, Kentucky for 20 years before becoming program director at sister station WCKU.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Joel Whitburn, The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits. 7th edn, 2000
  2. ↑ Richie Unterberger, Biography. Allmusic.
  3. ↑ Billboard Singles, Allmusic.com
  4. ↑ Tom Carter (August 28, 1988). "Soul, Rap to be focus of new area FM station". lkyradio.com. Retrieved 3 March 2015.