Warren Joyner
Warren Joyner is an American doo-wop singer and songwriter .
Warren Joyner's first composition, The Way to My Heart , was recorded by singer Billy Storm in 1958 for Barbary Coast Records. Storm had known the songwriter John Marascalco since his recording of Good Golly, Miss Molly with his group The Valiants , with whom Joyner began to write doo-wop songs for The Marathons in 1959 . Don't Know Why and The Stranger were released on Marascalco's Sabrina Records label under the number 334, Midnight Star followed under the pseudonym "The Misfits" on Aries 7-10-4. Joyner also founded the doo-wop group The Brentwoods with several other 1958 graduates from Dorsey High School in Los Angeles. It sang alongside Warren Alonzo Willis and Larzet Collins as well as the sisters JoAnn and Roberta Wilson. The group named themselves after a street where they rehearsed. Alonzo Willis remembered Joyner developing the songs and noting everyone else's voices to sing. When these harmonized with one another, he started with the lead voice. This is how the Joyner compositions Water Sprinkler , As I Live from Day to Day and another interpretation of Midnight Star came about . The Brentwoods recorded the last two songs in 1960 under the direction of producer HB Barnum for their only single release on Dore Records under the number 559.
Meanwhile, Billy Storm had found him some jobs at the Walt Disney Company . After the breakup of the Valiants and their follow-up volume The Untouchables , Storm founded The Electras with Joyner, Valiants colleague Chester Pipkin , his cousin Gary Pipkin and Billy Mann . The Electras recorded in 1961 under Marascalco's direction and with Joyner as lead tenor for Infinity Records , including the Joyner composition You Lied and a variant of Johnny Burnette's Bertha Lou under the title Snacky Poo . In 1962, Can't You See It in My Eyes, another composition followed, for which Joyner received author credits and which appeared on Marascalco's Lola Records . Further compositional collaborations with Marascalco resulted in 1960 with Just a Friend for Johnnie Tino on Crosby Records, 1962 with Nothing But a Playboy for Lee Diamond on Lola and in 1963 with Opportunity for Walter Jackson on Columbia Records . With this song, New Zealander Mr. Lee Grant achieved a number one success in his home market.
Discography as a songwriter
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Steve Propes: Old School. 77 Years of Southern California R&B & Vocal Group Harmony Records 1934-2011 . 1st edition. San Bernadino 2013, ISBN 978-1-4610-7692-6 , p. 273 (American English).
- ↑ a b Steve Propes, Galen Gart: LA R&B Vocal Groups 1945–1965 . 1st edition. Nickel Publications, Milford 2001, ISBN 0-936433-18-3 , pp. 23 f . (American English).
- ^ Marv Goldberg: The Valiants. In: Marv Goldberg′s R&B Notebook. 2002, accessed January 30, 2015 .
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| SURNAME | Joyner, Warren |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American doo-wop singer with a tenor voice |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |