Mark Dinning
Mark Dinning (born August 17, 1933 as Max E. Dinning near Drury , Grant County , Oklahoma , † March 22, 1986 in Jefferson City , Missouri ) was an American pop singer . With his song Teen Angel he achieved a number one hit in the USA.
Musical beginnings
Born in Oklahoma, Dinning grew up on a farm near Nashville , Tennessee . He came from a music-loving family and was the youngest of nine children. Three of his older sisters - Lou and the twins Ginger and Jean - formed the singing group The Dinning Sisters and landed a top hit in the USA in the late 1940s with their single Buttons and Bows . Clara Ann Fowler was Mark Dinning's babysitter for a while - she later became a popular singer as Patti Page . Mark himself learned to play the electric guitar and initially switched to country music . In early 1957, with the help of the music publisher Wesley Rose , for whom he had auditioned, he received a record deal with MGM Records , but his first recordings were not a great success.
Record career
The turning point came with the song Teen Angel , written by Dinning's sister Jean with her husband Red Surrey. The track was pressed onto Dinning's sixth MGM single and released in December 1959. Since the song was banned as a death disc because of its morbid content, most radio stations initially boycotted it. It wasn't until a Chicago disc jockey broke through the boycott that Teen Angel landed on the Hot 100 of the US music magazine Billbord , where it finally reached number one in February 1960. It has been sold more than 3.5 million times and has been awarded the gold record by the record industry . In this way, known, Dinning was able to place another three titles in the Hot 100 in the following twelve months, which however did not achieve the success of Teen Angel .
In 1963 Dinning's contract with MGM ran out after 16 singles and two long-playing records had been produced with him. Afterwards he only had short-term engagements with various record companies. He published his last records on United Artists Records , where another four singles were produced between 1967 and 1969.
Another résumé
During the 1960s, Mark Dinning and his brother Ace were traveling through the southern United States, where the two of them gave concerts in clubs. In 1973, his hit song Teen Angel was part of the American Graffiti soundtrack . He later became an alcoholic, and after performing in Jefferson City , Missouri in 1986 , suffered a heart attack which resulted in his death on March 22nd at the age of 52. He was buried in Guthrie's Dry Fork Cemetery in Callaway County , Missouri.
US discography
LPs
| title | Catalog no. | published |
|---|---|---|
| Teen angel | MGM 3828 | 1960 |
| Wanderer | MGM 3855 | 1960 |
Vinyl singles
| From page | Catalog no. | published |
|---|---|---|
| MGM | ||
| Shameful Ways / A Million Years Ago | 12447 | 3/1957 |
| When You're Tired of Breaking / School Fool | 12553 | 9/1957 |
| Do You Know / You Thrill Me | 12691 | x / 1958 |
| The Blackeyed Gypsy / Secretly in Love With You | 12732 | 11/1958 |
| A Life of Love / Cutie Cutie | 12775 | 3/1959 |
| Teen Angel / Bye Now Baby | 12845 | 12/1959 |
| A Star Is Born / You Win Again | 12888 | 3/1960 |
| The Lovin 'Touch / Come Back to Me | 12929 | 7/1960 |
| She Cried on My Shoulder / The World Is Gettin 'Smaller | 12958 | 11/1960 |
| Top Forty, News, Weather and Sports / Suddenly | 12980 | 1/1961 |
| Can't Forget / Another Lonely Girl | 13007 | 4/1961 |
| Turn Me On / Lonely Island | 13024 | 7/1961 |
| In a Matter of Moments / What Will My Mary Say | 13048 | 11/1961 |
| All of This for Sally / The Pickup | 13061 | 2/1962 |
| I Catch Myself Crying / She's Changed | 13091 | 8/1962 |
| The Twelfth of Never / Somebody Catch Me Kissin 'Mary | 13150 | 6/1963 |
| Cameo | ||
| January / Joey | 299 | 2/1964 |
| Should We Do It / Call Her Your Sweetheart | 313 | 4/1964 |
| hickory | ||
| Dial AL 1-4883 / I'm Glad We Fell in Love | 1293 | 2/1965 |
| There Stands A Lady / The Last Rose | 1368 | 2/1966 |
| He Reminds Me of Me / Run Opie Run | 1404 | 8/1966 |
| United Artists | ||
| It's Such a Pretty World Today / Atlanta Georgia Stray | 50169 | 6/1967 |
| Hangin 'on / Maggie | 50225 | 11/1967 |
| Throw a Little Love My Way / A Dissatisfied Man | 50305 | 8/1968 |
| How Little Man Care / Lemon Yellow | 50540 | 5/1969 |
Chart placements (singles)
| year | Title album |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 UK
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 US
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R&B
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| 1960 | Teen angel |
UK37 (4 weeks) UK |
US1 (18 weeks) US |
R&B5 (8 weeks) R&B |
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| A Star Is Born (A Love Has Died) | - |
US68 (6 weeks) US |
- | ||
| The lovin 'touch | - |
US84 (6 weeks) US |
- | ||
| 1961 | Top Forty, News, Weather And Sports | - |
US81 (6 weeks) US |
- | |
literature
- Frank Laufenberg: Rock & Pop Lexicon . Econ Taschenbuch Verlag 1998, ISBN 3-612-26206-8 , Volume 1, p. 405.
- Martin Popoff : Standard Catalog of American Records 1948–1991 . Krause Publications, Iola 2010, ISBN 978-1-4402-1131-7 , p. 348.
Web links
- Mark Dinning biography at www.rockabilly.nl
- Discography at www.45cat.com
- Chart positions at www.musicvf.com
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dinning, Mark |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Dinning, Max E. (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American pop singer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 17, 1933 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | near Drury , Grant County , Oklahoma |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 22, 1986 |
| Place of death | Jefferson City , Missouri |