Nino Tempo

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Nino Tempo (born January 6, 1937 in Niagara Falls , New York ; actually Antonino LoTempio ) is an American pop and jazz musician and actor .

Live and act

Tempo learned the clarinet as a kid and tenor saxophone in high school. At the age of seven he appeared on television with Benny Goodman , later in films such as The Story of GI Joe (1945), Scandals (1945) and The Red Pony . He then worked as a studio musician and arranger for Frank Sinatra , Eydie Gormé , Steve Lawrence , or Maynard Ferguson , but continued to pursue his acting career with a supporting role as clarinet player Wilbur Schwartz in The Glenn Miller Story (1954) and other appearances in The Girl Can ' t Help It (1956). In 1958 he started a solo career as a musician. He recorded a first album, Rock & Roll Beach Party , which Liberty Records released; the single 15 Girl Friends was also released in 1958 by RCA Victor ; Ding-A-Ling followed in the next year .

In 1959 he wrote Teach Me Tiger , with which his sister April Stevens (actually Carol Lo Tempio ) had a hit. Together with his sister April Stevens, the saxophonist had a number one hit in the US singles charts with Deep Purple in 1963 . Her interpretation was awarded a Grammy in 1964.

Between 1962 and 1964 numerous former top hits from the 1920s and 1930s were re-recorded by Tempo and Stevens, some of the recordings made it to the US charts, including Whispering , initially a hit by Paul Whiteman in 1920. Less Successful were Stardust and Tea for Two , a hit for Marion Harris in 1925.

In the second half of the 1960s, Tempo and Stevens had two smaller hits with All Strung Out and I Can't Go On Livin 'Baby Without You . In 1973 the two hit the charts again with Put It Where You Want It .

In the same year Tempo had his first solo hit with Sister James . More singles followed in 1974, as did his second album Come See Me 'Round Midnight , but were not economically successful. His sister had another hit in 1974 with their joint composition Wake Up and Love Me , which was followed by the joint recording of You Turn Me On in 1975 , which made it into the easy-listening charts. In the same year he was involved in John Lennon's album Rock 'n' Roll . In 1979 Tempo played another single with Hooked on Young Stuff and also wrote three numbers for the soundtrack of The Idolmaker , which hit the charts in December 1980. After playing for Nesuhi Ertegün at the Trauuergottesdienst , he was rediscovered as a jazz saxophonist and recorded three albums for Atlantic Records : Tenor Saxophone (1990), Nino (1992) and Live at Cicada (1995).

Discography

Singles

year Title
album 		Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
UK UK US US
with April Stevens
1962 Sweet and Lovely - US77 (4 weeks)
US
1963 Deep Purple UK17 (11 weeks)
UK 		US1 (15 weeks)
US
Whispering UK20 (8 weeks)
UK 		US11 (9 weeks)
US
1964 Stardust - US32 (6 weeks)
US
I'm Confessin '(That I Love You) - US99 (1 week)
US
1965 Tea for Two - US56 (5 weeks)
US
1966 All Strung Out - US26 (8 weeks)
US
1967 I Can't Go On Livin 'Baby Without You - US86 (2 weeks)
US
1973 Sister James - US53 (8 weeks)
US
1974 Wake Up And Love Me - US93 (4 weeks)
US
with 5th Ave. Sax
1973 Sister James - US53 (8 weeks)
US

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Text and music by Mitchell Parish and Peter de Rose. Producer: Ahmet Ertegün . US catalog number Atco 6224
  2. ↑ For more information on the song, see: Bronson, Fred: The Billboard Book of Number One Hits . 3rd revised and expanded edition. New York City, New York: Billboard Publications, 1992, p. 139. As early as 1939, the song with Larry Clinton and His Orchestra was number one in the charts.
  3. ^ US catalog number Atco 6281; the title reached number 11 in the single charts.
  4. ^ US catalog number Atco 6286; 32nd place in the US single charts; original hit for Isham Jones and his orchestra in 1931
  5. ↑ The title reached number 56 in the charts. US catalog number Atco 6294
  6. ↑ 53rd place; US catalog number A&M 1461; see: Joel Whitburn: Top Pop Singles 1955-1993 . Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin: Record Research Ltd., 1994, p. 593
  7. ↑ Chart sources: UK US1 US2
personal data
SURNAME Tempo, Nino
ALTERNATIVE NAMES LoTempio, Antonino (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American pop and jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH January 6, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Niagara Falls