Johnny Burnette

His name and song-writing abilities gained prominence again when Ringo Starr released a cover of "You're Sixteen" in 1973.
. He was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California. Rosemary Clooney had two husbands, José Ferrer (from 1953 until the 1960s) by whom she had five children, including actor,Miguel Ferrer, born in 1955 and Gabriel Ferrer, born 1956, who married Debby Boone, and Dante DePaolo (whom she married in 1997). Johnny Burnette's career was cut short at the age of 30 when he drowned in a boating accident. Many attribute some of Clooney’s extraordinary abilities to her being affected by bipolar disorder, commonly known as manic depression. 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. She had a nervous breakdown and serious drug problems.

They are considered to be the ones who originally coined the phrase "Rockabilly". The event traumatized her life for years afterward. Along with his brother Dorsey Burnette and a friend, Paul Burlison, in the early 1950s he formed the Johnny Burnette Rock and Roll Trio. Kennedy, with whom she was a close friend. Johnny Burnette (March 25, 1934 - August 14, 1964) was a Rockabilly pioneer in Memphis, Tennessee. In 1968, Clooney was present at the assassination of Robert F. In 1986 she sang a duet with Wild Man Fischer on "It's a Hard Business".

In 1966 she went to United Artists Records. In 1964 she went to Reprise again, shifting the next year to Dot Records. Finally, toward the end of 1958, she signed with RCA Victor Records, where she stayed until 1963 except for doing some recordings in 1960 for Reprise Records. In 1958, Clooney left Columbia, doing a number of recordings for MGM Records and then some for Coral Records.

In 1954 she and Bing Crosby starred in the movie "White Christmas.". In 1951 her record of "Come On-a My House" became a hit, her first of many singles to hit the charts. She continued working with the Pastor band until 1949, making her last recording with the band in May of that year and her first as a solo artist a month later, still for Columbia. Rosemary Clooney's first recordings, in May of 1946 were for Columbia Records as a singer with the big band of Tony Pastor.

Her sister Betty sang in a duo with Rosemary for much of her early career. In 1945 the Clooney sisters won a spot on Cincinnati's radio station WLW as singers. Rosemary, Betty, and brother, Nick, as well as her nephew, George Clooney (Nick's son), all became entertainers. Eventually, when Rosemary was 13, she and her sister Betty went to live with their mother and her brother Nick went with their father.

Her father was an alcoholic and she and her brother and sister were constantly moving back and forth between her parents. She was born in Maysville, Kentucky, about 60 miles up the Ohio River from Cincinnati, Ohio. Rosemary Clooney (May 23, 1928 - June 29, 2002) was an American popular singer and actress. You Make Me Feel So Young.

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