Ed Ames

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Ed Ames

Ed Ames (actually Edmund Dantes Urick , born July 9, 1927 in Malden , Massachusetts ) is an American pop singer and actor .

Life

Ed was the youngest of four brothers who formed The Ames Brothers as a vocal group in the late 1940s and had a few hits by the middle of the following decade; 1955 was the most successful year with its own television show The Ames Brothers Show .

After the group broke up, Ames went to New York in 1959 to take acting classes. After some theater engagements, he played Mingo the Indian in the television series Daniel Boone .

In 1964 he began again with recordings, which appeared on some LPs up until the early 1970s; including his biggest hit from 1967, the top 10 single My Cup Runneth Over from the Broadway musical I Do, I Do , which reached number 8 on the US singles chart. With Who Will Answer? he achieved another top 20 hit in 1968. In 1964 he also dedicated the song Hello Lyndon , an adaptation of the song Hello Dolly , to the then US President Lyndon B. Johnson as part of the presidential election campaign .

Publications

  • 1964: Try to remember
  • 1964: Hello Lyndon
  • 1966: It's a man's world
  • 1966: More I cannot wish you
  • 1967: Christmas with Ed Ames
  • 1967: My cup runneth over
  • 1967: Time, time
  • 1967: When the snow is on the roses
  • 1968: Apologize
  • 1968: Who will answer?
  • 1969: A time for loving, a time for hope
  • 1969: The windmills of your mind
  • 1970: Love of the common people
  • 1971: The songs of Bacharach and David
  • 1972: Remembers Jim Reeves

Individual evidence

  1. ^ US catalog number RCA 9002. Whitburn, Joel: Top Pop Singles 1955-1993 . Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin: Record Research Ltd., 1994, p. 13
  2. ↑ US catalog number RCA 9400. The record reached number 19.

literature

  • Laufenberg, Frank / Hake, Ingrid: Rock and Pop Lexicon. Vol. 1: ABBA - Kay Kyser . Düsseldorf / Vienna: Econ Verlag, 1994, p. 34

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personal data
SURNAME Ames, Ed
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Urick, Edmund Dantes (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American pop singer and actor
DATE OF BIRTH July 9, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Malden , Massachusetts, USA