Kathy Young

Kathy Young (born 21 October 1945) is an American muisicker; she wis a teen pop sanger durin early 1960s, whose rendition, at age 15, o "A Thousand Stars", rose tae No. 3 on Billboard Hot 100.

Kathy Young wi The Earth Angels performin Kathy's hit A Thousand Stars durin the festival o this genre celebratit at the Benedum Center for the performin airts in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvanie in Mey 2010.

Kathy Young wi Christian Carrasco, ane o the members o the Spainyie Doo-wop baund cried The Earth Angels.

A native o Southern Californie, Young wis born in the Orange Coonty seat, Santa Ana, an rose tae stardom in 1960 whan Jim Lee, a producer at Indigo Records who, twa years earlier, organisit the Sun Valley-based baund, The Innocents, an arrangit their appearance on Wink Martindale's pop muisic TV show, askit thaim tae sing backup vocals for her on the cover version o the sang which haed been issued athoot commercial success in 1954 for The Rivileers, "A Thousand Stars". In Dizember, twa month efter her 15t birthday, Kathy Young and The Innocents peakit at No. 6 on the Black Singles chart, an at No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100. Young's follae-up wis "Happy Birthday Blues", which hit No. 30 on the Hot 100 in 1961. Subsequent singles, such as "Magic Is the Night" an "The Great Pretender", missed the Top 40.

In Julie 1961, Kathy Young joined top performers Brenda Lee, The Shirelles, Bobby Vee, Etta James, Gene McDaniels, The Ventures, Clarence "Frogman" Henry, The Fleetwoods, The Innocents an Jerry Lee Lewis on DJ Alan Freed's heichly-publicisit new American road show.

In 1962 she follaeed Jim Lee tae Monogram Records, recordin solo an wi Chicano rock sangster Chris Montez. Still a teenager, she saw her promising career slowin tae a standstill an, in 1964, traveled tae Lunnon whaur she marriet American sangster-songwriter John Maus, whose stage name wis John Walker. The marriage tae Maus, remembered as the foonder o The Walker Brothers, a pop group maist successful in the 1960s, pairticularly in the Unitit Kinrick, lastit frae 1965 tae 1968.

Returnin tae the U.S. in 1969, she remarriet twa years later an ower the next twinty years raised childer an helpit manage the faimily citrus ranch in Central Californie. Efter a move back to Los Angeles in 1994, she began wirkin for a major internaitional company, while comin hame tae her oreeginal passion an aw, muisic an, in the 2000s, performin on numerous rock shows at venues such as the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles an New Jersey's Izod Center at the Meadowlands Sports Complex.

Discography

Albums

• The Sound of Kathy Young (1961)
• Our Best to You (1981)

Singles

• "A Thousand Stars" / "Eddie My Darling" (1960)
• "Happy Birthday Blues" / "Someone to Love" (1961)
• "Our Parents Talked It Over" / "Just as Though You Were Here" (1961)
• "Magic Is the Night" / "Du Du'nt Du" (1961)
• "Baby Oh Baby" / "Great Pretender" (1961)
• "I'll Hang My Letters Out to Dry" / "Lonely Blue Nights" (1962)
• "Dream Awhile" / "Send Her Away" (1962)
• "(Hey There) Dream Boy" / "I'll Love That Man" (1962)
• "Sparkle and Shine" / "Please Love Me Forever" (1979)

Freemit airtins

• Kathy Young I
• Kathy Young II
• Kathy Young & The Innocents I
• Kathy Young & The Innocents II
• Kathy Young & The Innocents III
• The Innocents I
• The Innocents II
• The Innocents III
• Kathy Young on IMDb