Adam Wade
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 | 7th |
03/14/1960 | Ruby | 58 | 8th |
06/20/1960 | I Can't Help It | 64 | 7th |
11/21/1960 | Gloria's theme | 74 | 6th |
March 13, 1961 | Take Good Care of Her | 7th | 14th |
05/15/1961 | The writing on the wall | 5 | 11 |
06/19/1961 | Point of no return | 85 | 4th |
07/24/1961 | As If I Didn't Know | 10 | 10 |
September 18, 1961 | Tonight I Won't Be There | 61 | 7th |
10/02/1961 | Linda | 94 | 1 |
01/30/1965 | Crying in the Chapel | 88 | 3 |
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 | 2/1960 |
I Can't Help It / I Had the Craziest Dream | 530 | 5/1960 |
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 | 1/1961 |
The Writing on the Wall / Point of No Return | 550 | 5/1961 |
As If I Didn't Know / Playin 'Around | 553 | 7/1961 |
Tonight I Won't Be There / Linda | 556 | 9/1961 |
Cold Cold Winter / Preview of Paradise | 560 | 1961 |
How Are Things in Lover's Lane / It's Good to Have You Back with Me | 565 | 1/1962 |
The Prisoner's Song / Them There Eyes | 566 | 1962 |
For the First Time in My Life / Little Miss Lovely | 567 | 4/1962 |
Epic | ||
I'm Climbin 'the Wall / They Didn't Believe Me | 9521 | 7/1962 |
There'll Be No Teardrops Tonight / Here Comes the Pain | 9557 | 10/1962 |
Don't Let Me Cross Over / Rain from the Skies | 9566 | 1/1963 |
Why Do We Have to Wait So Long / Teenage Mona Lisa | 9590 | 4/1963 |
Let's Make the Most of a Beautiful Thing / Theme from "Irma La Douce" 9609 | 6/1963 | |
Does Goodnight Mean Goodbye / Charade | 9639 | 11/1963 |
Seven Loves for Seven Days / Whisper Away | 9659 | 1/1964 |
When April Smiles At Me / Pencil and Paper | 9686 | 1964 |
Crying in the Chapel / Broken Hearted Stranger | 9752 | 12/1964 |
A Lover's Question / It's Been a Long Time Comin ' | 9771 | 3/1965 |
Garden in the Rain / Play Some Music for Broken Hearts | 9808 | 6/1965 |
The Time of Dreams / Garden of Eden | 9840 | 9/1965 |
Solitude / How Can I Leave You? | 10024 | 6/1966 |
A Man Alone / Wheels on the Highway | 10112 | 12/1966 |
Warner bros. | ||
Julie on My Mind / With an Exception | 7068 | 8/1967 |
Everybody Is Looking for That Someone / Maybe | 7179 | 3/1968 |
Rome / Old Devil Moon | 7225 | 8/1968 |
LPs
title | Catalog no. | published |
---|---|---|
And then came Adam | Coed 902 | 6/1960 |
Adam and Evening | Coed 903 | 2/1961 |
One is a lonely number | Epic 24026 | 10/1962 |
What Kind of Fool Am I | Epic 26044 | 2/1963 |
A Very Good Year for Girls | Epic 24056 | 8/1963 |
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.
Web links
- Adam Wade in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Biography at sites.google.com/site/pittsburghmusichistory
- Adam Wade at 45cat.com (English)
- Chart positions at musicvf.com
- Adam Wade at Allmusic (English)
personal data | |
---|---|
SURNAME | Wade, Adam |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wade, Patrick Henry (maiden name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American pop music singer and actor |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 17, 1935 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania |