Gene Allison

Gene Allison (born August 29, 1934 in Pegram , Tennessee , † February 28, 2004 in Nashville , Tennessee) was an American gospel and R&B singer.

Career

Allison came to Nashville with his family at the age of seven, where he sang in the local gospel choir with his brother Laveert . While still in high school, he was hired for the quartet The Fairfield Four ; he later met producer Ted Jarrett and switched to secular songs. In 1957 he had his first hit with "You Can Make It If You Try", which reached number 37 on the Billboard Pop Charts. In the R&B charts, the track reached number 14. With Have Faith and Everything Will Be Alright , two more hits followed in 1958.

This success enabled him to open a restaurant, which he ran with his family until the end of his life. He died of liver and kidney failure in Nashville.

Discography

Albums

• 1959: Gene Allison

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)		Remarks
		US	R&B
1958	You Can Make It If You Try Gene Allison	US37 (17 weeks) US	R&B3 (... weeks) R&B
	Everything Will Be Alright Gene Allison	-	R&B19 (6 weeks) R&B
	Have Faith Gene Allison	US73 (6 weeks) US	R&B11 (... weeks) R&B

Remarks

1. ^ Whitburn, Joel: Top Pop Singles 1955-1993 . Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin: Record Research Ltd., 1994, p. 10
2. ^ Whitburn, Joel: The Billboard Book of Top 40 R&B and Hip-Hop Hits . New York, NY: Billboard Books, 2006, p. 12; Have Faith reached number 73 on Billboard's pop charts.
3. ↑ Chart sources: US1 US2

Web links

• Literature by and about Gene Allison in the catalog of the German National Library
• Gene Allison at Allmusic (English). Retrieved July 1, 2015.