Dale Wright (singer)

Dale Wright (born Harlan Dale Riffe; February 4, 1938 – April 15, 2007)[1] was an American rock and roll singer.

Wright was born in Middletown, Ohio. He started his career as a disc jockey in Dayton, Ohio who signed to Fraternity Records after playing a song he'd written on the air.[2] He recorded a sizable body of work for Fraternity in the late 1950s, some of it with backing band The Rock-Its, and hit the Billboard Hot 100 twice in 1958 with the singles "She's Neat" (#38) and "Don't Do it" (#77).[3] By the early 1960s he had been dropped from Fraternity but continued recording for smaller labels well into the decade.

After his success as a singer waned, Wright returned to radio, hosting a talk show on WNVL in Nicholasville, Kentucky for 20 years before becoming program director at sister station WCKU.[4] He died in Lexington, Kentucky on April 15, 2007.[5]

References
  1. Joel Whitburn, The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits. 7th edn, 2000
  2. Richie Unterberger, Biography. Allmusic.
  3. Billboard Singles, Allmusic.com
  4. Tom Carter (August 28, 1988). "Soul, Rap to be focus of new area FM station". lkyradio.com. Retrieved 3 March 2015.
  5. "Person Details for Harlan D Riffe, "United States Social Security Death Index" — FamilySearch.org". familysearch.org.
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