Adam Wade

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First single - first success: Tell Her for Me

Adam Wade (* 17th March 1935 as Patrick Henry Wade in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania ) is an American pop singer and actor.

Artistic career

Singer

Wade grew up in the East Liberty neighborhood of Pittsburgh and attended Westinghouse High School. There he sang in the school choir and blew the trumpet in the school band. However, his primary interest was basketball , where he showed achievements that earned him an athletic scholarship from Virginia State University. After graduating from Westinghouse in 1952, Wade played on the Virginia State University basketball team and was soon named team captain. From Virginia he moved to study at the University of Pittsburgh and worked there from 1958 as a laboratory assistant. In the evenings he performed at the Pittsburgh Playhouse, where he was the lead singer of a music production.

In 1959, a Pittsburgh school friend asked Wade to perform a demo version for him at the New York record company Coed Records . The school friend's song fell through, but Wade was offered a record deal. In November, the song Tell Her for Me was recorded with him . The title found its way into the Hot 100 of the music magazine Billbord , where it rose to 66th place. This earned him appearances in New York nightclubs Living Room and Copacabana . He received praise from the stars Frank Sinatra and Eddie Fisher . During 1960, Wade settled in New York. Coed produced more singles with him in quick succession, and Wade's first music album, And Then Came Adam , was released in June 1960 . After three more Hot 100 listings with positions 58, 64 and 74, the breakthrough came in the top 10 of the charts in 1961. In spring Wade reached seventh place with the title Take Good Care of Her , in summer fifth with The Writing on the Wall and tenth place with As If I Didn't Know . In the fall of the year he played two more chart titles, which landed on ranks 61 and 94.

Although Wade had already become the most successful interpreter of the Coed label, he left the record company in 1962 and signed a record deal with the New York label Epic Records . The first single was released there in July 1962. But neither with this nor with several other publications could Wade build on the previous successes. It wasn't until early 1965 that he was able to book a modest last success with number 88 in the Hot 100 for the cover version of Elvis Presley's hit songs Crying in the Chapel . After his contract with Epic expired, Wade released three more singles with Warner Bros. and then ended his recording career for a long time. In 1977 he released another music album entitled Adam Wade on Kirshner Records . With his wife he ran the music production company Songbirds in New Jersey from 1983.

actor

At the end of the 1960s, Wade shifted his activities to the theater stage and the film and television studios. He has appeared in the musicals Hallelujah, Baby , Guys and Dolls and The Color Purple . He took on roles in the films Street to the Beyond , The Phantom in Paradise or Greetings from the Hereafter, which were also shown in Germany . Wade could also be seen in the TV series FBI , Kojak - Einsatz in Manhattan or Hill Street Police Station, which were broadcast in Germany . In 1975 Adam Wade became the first African-American presenter of a US game show with Musical Chairs .

US charts on Billboard

Started title Hot 100 Weeks
01/11/1960 Tell Her for Me 66 07th
03/14/1960 Ruby 58 08th
06/20/1960 I Can't Help It 64 07th
11/21/1960 Gloria's theme 74 06th
March 13, 1961 Take Good Care of Her 07th 14th
05/15/1961 The writing on the wall 05 11
06/19/1961 Point of no return 85 04th
07/24/1961 As If I Didn't Know 10 10
September 18, 1961 Tonight I Won't Be There 61 07th
10/02/1961 Linda 94 01
01/30/1965 Crying in the Chapel 88 03

US discography

Vinlyl singles

From page Catalog no. published
Coed
Tell Her for Me / Don't Cry My Love 520 11/1959
Ruby / Too Far 526 02/1960
I Can't Help It / I Had the Craziest Dream 530 05/1960
Speaking of Her / Black Out the Moon 536 10/1960
For the Want of Your Love / In Pursuit of Happiness 539 11/1960
Gloria's Theme / Dreamy 541 11/1960
Sleepy Time Gal / Take Good Care of Her 546 01/1961
The Writing on the Wall / Point of No Return 550 05/1961
As If I Didn't Know / Playin 'Around 553 07/1961
Tonight I Won't Be There / Linda 556 09/1961
Cold Cold Winter / Preview of Paradise 560 001961
How Are Things in Lover's Lane / It's Good to Have You Back with Me 565 01/1962
The Prisoner's Song / Them There Eyes 566 001962
For the First Time in My Life / Little Miss Lovely 567 04/1962
Epic
I'm Climbin 'the Wall / They Didn't Believe Me 9521 07/1962
There'll Be No Teardrops Tonight / Here Comes the Pain 9557 10/1962
Don't Let Me Cross Over / Rain from the Skies 9566 01/1963
Why Do We Have to Wait So Long / Teenage Mona Lisa 9590 04/1963
Let's Make the Most of a Beautiful Thing / Theme from "Irma La Douce" 9609 06/1963
Does Goodnight Mean Goodbye / Charade 9639 11/1963
Seven Loves for Seven Days / Whisper Away 9659 01/1964
When April Smiles At Me / Pencil and Paper 9686 001964
Crying in the Chapel / Broken Hearted Stranger 9752 12/1964
A Lover's Question / It's Been a Long Time Comin ' 9771 03/1965
Garden in the Rain / Play Some Music for Broken Hearts 9808 06/1965
The Time of Dreams / Garden of Eden 9840 09/1965
Solitude / How Can I Leave You? 10024 06/1966
A Man Alone / Wheels on the Highway 10112 12/1966
Warner bros.
Julie on My Mind / With an Exception 7068 08/1967
Everybody Is Looking for That Someone / Maybe 7179 03/1968
Rome / Old Devil Moon 7225 08/1968

LPs

title Catalog no. published
And then came Adam Coed 902 06/1960
Adam and Evening Coed 903 02/1961
One is a lonely number Epic 24026 10/1962
What Kind of Fool Am I Epic 26044 02/1963
A Very Good Year for Girls Epic 24056 08/1963

Movie and TV

Film rolls

  • 1971: Shaft
  • 1972: Come Back, Charleston Blue
  • 1972: Across 110th Street (road to the afterlife)
  • 1973: Gordon's War (Gordon's Revenge)
  • 1974: Crazy Joe
  • 1974: Claudine
  • 1974: Phantom of the Paradise ( The Phantom in Paradise )
  • 1981: Texas Lightning
  • 2004: Brother to Brother
  • 2014: Drug Affected

Television roles

  • 1966: Tarzan
  • 1969: FBI , series
  • 1970: Adam-12
  • 1974: Nicky's World
  • 1976: Sanford and Son
  • 1976: Street Killing
  • 1976: Police Woman ( make-up and pistols )
  • 1977: Sanford Arms
  • 1977: Kojak ( Kojak - deployment in Manhattan , series)
  • 1978: Good Times (series)
  • 1978: What's Happening (series)
  • 1979: Uptown Saturday Night
  • 1979: The Jeffersons ( The Jeffersons , series)
  • 1979: BJ and the Bear (BJ and the Bear, series)
  • 1979: Sheriff Lobo (series)
  • 1979: The Dukes of Hazzard ( A duke rarely comes alone , series)
  • 1979: The Super Globetrotters (series)
  • 1981: Hill Street Blues ( Hill Street Police Station , series)
  • 2004: Law & Order

literature

  • Frank Laufenberg: Rock & Pop Lexicon . Econ Taschenbuch Verlag 1998, ISBN 3-612-26207-6 , Volume 2, p. 1594.

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