Fred Stobaugh

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Singles
Oh sweet Lorraine
  AT 14th 06.09.2013 (2 weeks)
  CH 31 09/08/2013 (1 week)
  US 42 04.09.2013 (1 week)

Fred Stobaugh (born August 22, 1917 - November 23, 2016 ) was an American pensioner who wrote the lyrics to the song Oh Sweet Lorraine in 2013 after the death of his wife Lorraine and submitted it to a competition. Shortly afterwards, video documentation of the recording sessions developed into an Internet phenomenon . The song then reached the US charts and was later able to reach chart positions in other countries.

Life

Fred Stobaugh lived in Peoria , Illinois . Before retiring, he worked as a driver for a laundry company. He and his wife Lorraine (born July 30, 1921 as Lorraine Dinquel) met in 1938 when she worked as a waitress for the fast food chain A&W . Two years later, on June 26, 1940, they married. Lorraine died on April 26, 2013, shortly before the 75th anniversary of their meeting. The couple had three daughters.

The 96-year-old Stobaugh processed the memories of his wife in the love song Oh Sweet Lorraine and submitted the text to the song competition of the music studio Green Shoe Studio . The owner of the small music studio, the music producer Jacob Colgan became aware of the text, arranged and set it to music . He played it professionally and released the song Oh Sweet Lorraine as a single.

The associated video documentation by Colgan spread viral via blogs and social networks and was viewed almost seven million times on the video platforms YouTube and Vimeo within a few weeks (as of September 24, 2013). On August 30, 2013, Stobaugh was Person of the Week on ABC News . On September 19, 2013 he was a guest on the talk show The View .

In Austria, the single reached number 1 on the iTunes charts after its release , in Germany it reached number 4 on iTunes on August 28, 2013. The song then entered the official charts in several countries. In the US, Oh Sweet Lorraine reached # 42, making Stobaugh the oldest person to get on the Billboard Hot 100 at 96 .

Discography

Singles

  • 2013: Oh Sweet Lorraine
  • 2014: Took Her Home

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chart sources: AT CH US
  2. ↑ 96-year-old becomes an internet star , Süddeutsche Zeitung , August 26, 2013
  3. ↑ Now he's a star on the Internet: Pensioner (96) sends his wife a love song to heaven , picture , August 27, 2013
  4. ↑ 96-year-old becomes an internet star with a love song , Die Welt , August 29, 2013
  5. ↑ Fred Stobaugh: Love Song Makes 96-Year-Olds a YouTube Star , Focus , August 27, 2013
  6. ↑ Danielle Hatch: Peorian's song to late wife goes viral , Peoria Journal Star, August 27, 2013
  7. ^ Obituary in the Peoria Journal Star , April 28, 2013
  8. ↑ Uwe Buse: A song for Lorraine. In: Der Spiegel , 38 (2013), p. 69, September 16, 2013.
  9. ↑ A Letter From Fred at youtube.de
  10. ↑ A Letter From Fred at vimeo.com
  11. ↑ 96-Year-Old Widower Writes a Song About His Late-Wife Sweet Lorraine , ABC News, Aug. 30, 2013
  12. ↑ Episode Guide: Season 16 Episodes ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed September 24, 2013  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / abc.go.com
  13. ↑ German iTunes Chart Performance ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.itunescharts.net
  14. ^ Fred Stobaugh, 96, Becomes Oldest Artist To Appear On Hot 100 , Billboard, Sep. 4, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Stobaugh, Fred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American hobby composer
DATE OF BIRTH August 22, 1917
DATE OF DEATH 23rd November 2016