Vikki Carr is a singer of Mexican ancestry from El Paso, Texas. She has
performed in a variety of music genres, including jazz, pop and country,
but has enjoyed her greatest success singing in Spanish. Her album
“It Must Be Him” was nominated for three Grammy Awards. The title
track reached No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1967 and sold
over one million copies. “It Must Be Him” was awarded a gold disc.
Archive for July 19th, 2011
19
Jul
VIKKI CARR IS 70 TODAY
19
Jul
JAMES BROLIN IS 70 YEARS OLD TODAY
19
Jul
GEORGE HAMILTON IV TURNED 74 TODAY
Singer George Hege Hamilton IV began performing in the late 1950s as a teen
idol, later switching to country music in the early 1960s. Hamilton’s breakthrough
hit was the 1961 song "Before this Day Ends". His biggest hit came two years later
with "Abilene”, a song penned by John D. Loudermilk. The song spent four weeks
at No. 1 on the Billboard country singles chart and reached the Top 20 of the
Hot 100.
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