Gary Pipkin

Gary Pipkin is an American doo-wop singer with a tenor voice, who also appeared as a songwriter under his pseudonym Gary Hart .

Life

Gary Pipkin grew up in Los Angeles. There he was invited by his cousin Chester Pipkin to a recording session for the doo-wop group The Untouchables in 1961 , where he represented Rip Spencer at Sixty Minute Man and Everybody's Laughing . When Chester Pipkin formed The Electras as a new band after the Untouchables broke up from his circle of friends , Gary was there from the beginning as the second tenor. The Electras released a dozen singles mostly on the labels of their producer John Marascalco , with whom Gary Pipkin began to write songs and produce other performers. At the BMI 51 songs are registered as author or co-author.

In 1962 there was the opportunity to record the single Puddin n 'Tain under the band name "The Alley-Cats" as a by-product for Herb Alpert and Lou Adler . After the Electras dissolved, the friends re- formed themselves in 1968 as the soul band Africa . The band was signed to Lou Adler's Ode Records , where the album Music from L'il Brown was released. “L'il Brown” refers to Gary's brown garden hut, where rehearsals took place and some of the recordings were made. His greatest success as a songwriter was in Great Britain in 1964, when Brian Poole & the Tremeloes covered Electras' Marascalco- Carson- Hart-Kevin composition Ten Steps to Love under the title Twelve Steps to Love and thus reached number 32 in the charts.

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Marv Goldberg on The Valiants / The Untouchables / The Electras
2. ↑ BMI search  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.