Johnny Burnette

His name and song-writing abilities gained prominence again when Ringo Starr released a cover of "You're Sixteen" in 1973. Odia Coates passed away in 1991 at the age of forty-nine of breast cancer. He was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California. They recorded several more duets that produced Top 10 & Top 20 hits such as 1974's "One Man Woman/One Woman Man" plus in 1975 "I Don't Like To Sleep Alone" and "There's Nothing Stronger Than Our Love." Coates went on to record on her own, meeting with modest success. Johnny Burnette's career was cut short at the age of 30 when he drowned in a boating accident. 1 on the Billboard charts in 1974. Although they managed to get a recording contract, in 1957 the group split up due to a lack of commercial success, but while living in California in 1960 Burnette had a back-to-back major hits with songs he wrote titled "Dreamin" and "You're Sixteen", followed by "Little Boy Sad" a year later. Coates is best remembered for her duet with Paul Anka called " (You're) Having My Baby" that went to No.

They are considered to be the ones who originally coined the phrase "Rockabilly". From an early age, she sang in her church choir and eventually became a member of the Southern California State Youth Choir. Along with his brother Dorsey Burnette and a friend, Paul Burlison, in the early 1950s he formed the Johnny Burnette Rock and Roll Trio. The daughter of an evangelical minister, she was born in Vicksburg, Mississippi but as a young girl her family moved to Watts, California. Johnny Burnette (March 25, 1934 - August 14, 1964) was a Rockabilly pioneer in Memphis, Tennessee. Odia Coates (1942 - May 19, 1991) was an American singer.