Mel Carter

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Mel Carter (born April 22, 1939 in Cincinnati , Ohio ) is an American pop and soul singer and actor.

Artistic career

Singer

By the age of four, Carter was singing on local radio shows, and by the age of nine, he was on the Lionel Hampton Show . He later became a member of the gospel group The Carvetts , led by his mother . At the beginning of the 1960s he began to sing about records, for example with the small record company Arwin from Hollywood or with the American Philips . In 1963, three singles were produced at the Sam Cooke record company Derby. Among them was the title When a Boy Falls in Love , with which Carter came into the Hot 100 of the US music magazine Billbord for the first time and reached number 44. For Derby it was the occasion to release a long-playing record with Carter under the same title. Imperial Records from Los Angeles signed a two-year contract with Carter in 1964, during which ten singles and three long-playing records were produced. With the song Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me published in 1965, Carter achieved the greatest success of his singing career. He was quoted 15 weeks on the Hot 100, rose to eighth place and was one with a gold record excellent million seller . At Imperial, Carter had five other Hot 100 hits by 1966. In 1967 Carter released four singles on Liberty Records , which were just as unsuccessful as the singles that were subsequently produced by four other small record companies. The last two singles came out in 1980/81 on Cream Records, a small label owned by Liberty President Al Bennett.

actor

Mel Carter began his acting career in 1959 with minor roles in television series. On German television you could see Carter for the first time in 1979 in the series The Bounty Hunter . Other series with Carter broadcast in Germany include Quincy and Magnum . The first role in a movie Carter played in 1975 in the strip Friday Foster (In the Black Spider's Web) . Another German dubbed film with Carter is the film The Cat from Outer Space .

Discography

Albums

title Catalog no. published
When a Boy Falls in Love Derby 702 1963
Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me Imperial 9289 1965
All of Sudden My Heart Sings Imperial 9300 1966
Easy listening Imperial 9319 1966
Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Quicksilver 1994
Best of Mel Carter Emm 1996
Live in Hollywood CD baby 2008
Other standards CD baby 2012

Singles

From page Catalog no. published
Arwin
I'm coming home / Sugar 23-45 11/1960
Philips
Who Do You Love / The Wrong Side 0f Town (& Clydie King) 40049 09/1962
Derby
When a Boy Falls in Love / So Wonderful 1003 05/1963
Time of Young Love / Wonderful Love 1005 09/1963
Why I Call Her Mine / After the Parting 1008 02/1964
Imperial
Deed I Do / What's on Your Mind 66052 08/1964
The Richest Man Alive / I'll Never Be Free 66078 11/1964
I Just Can't Imagine / High Noon 66101 04/1965
Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me / A Sweet Little Girl 66113 06/1965
My Heart Sings / When I Hold the Hand 66138 11/1965
Love Is All We Need / I Wish I Didn't Love You So 66148 01/1966
Band of Gold / Detour 66165 04/1966
You You You / If You Lose Her 66183 06/1966
Take Good Care of Her / Tar and Cement 66208 09/1966
As Time Goes By / Look to the Rainbow 66228 01/1967
Liberty
Edelweiss / For Once in My Life 55970 05/1967
Enter Laughing / Star Dust 55987 07/1967
Be My Love / I Look Into Your Eyes 56000 09/1967
Excuse Me / The Other Woman 56014 01/1968
Bell
I Pretend / Didn't We 743 09/1968
Another Saturday Night / Coming from You 775 03/1969
Amos
San Francisco Is a Lonely Town / Everything Stops 132 001969
Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye / This Is Your Life 139 001970
Romar
She Is Me / Do Me Wrong 711 001973
Treasure of Love / Do Me Wrong 714 001973
I Only Have Eyes for You / Treasure of Love 716 001974
Cream
I Don't Want to Get Over You / You Changed My Life Again 8041 001980
I Don't Want to Get Over You / Who's Right, Who's Wrong 8043 001981

Chart placements

Albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
US US
1965 Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me US62 (12 weeks)
US
1966 Easy listening US81 (11 weeks)
US

Singles

year Title
album 		Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements
(Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
US US
1963 When a Boy Falls in Love US44 (10 weeks)
US
1965 Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me US8 (15 weeks)
US
(All Of A Sudden) My Heart Sings US38 (7 weeks)
US
1966 Love is all we need US50 (8 weeks)
US
Band of Gold US32 (8 weeks)
US
You You You US49 (7 weeks)
US
Take Good Care Of Her US78 (5 weeks)
US

Filmography

movie theater

  • Friday Foster (In the Black Spider's Web) - 1975
  • Chesty Anderson US Navy - 1976
  • American Raspberry - 1977
  • The Cat from Outer Space - 1978
  • Angel - 1984

Watch TV*

  • Wanted: Dead or Alive (The Bounty Hunter) - 1959
  • The Detectives (Not a FBI case) - 1961
  • The Rifleman (West of Santa Fe) - 1958/63
  • When Things Were Rotten (Robi Robi Robin Hood) - 1975
  • Quincy ME (Quincy) - 1976/83
  • Magnum, PI (Magnum) - 1980/88
  • Werewolf (The Wehrwolf Returns) - 1987/88

* German synchronizations

literature

Web links

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  1. ↑ a b Chart sources: US
personal data
SURNAME Carter, Mel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American pop and soul singer and actor
DATE OF BIRTH April 22, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Cincinnati , Ohio