David Cortez Clowney, known by the stage name Dave "Baby" Cortez (born Augu… Read Full Bio ↴David Cortez Clowney, known by the stage name Dave "Baby" Cortez (born August 13, 1938, Detroit, Michigan), is an American pop and R&B organist and pianist.

Clowney attended Northwestern High School in Detroit. His father played the piano, and encouraged him to pursue a musical career. Clowney played the piano for 10 years, then he took up the organ.

Clowney made his first record in 1956 under his own name but it was not until three years later that he scored a major success using the stage name Dave "Baby" Cortez. His instrumental, "The Happy Organ", was the first pop/rock hit to feature the electronic organ as lead instrument; it featured drummer Gary Hammond and was co-written by noted celebrity photographer James J. Kriegsmann and frequent collaborator Kurt Wood. The guitar solo is by session musician Wild Jimmy Spruill. The 45 rpm single was the first instrumental No. 1 on Billboard magazine's Hot 100 chart. Clowney became the first African-American artist to have an instrumental #1 hit. Before making his big break with an instrumental record, Clowney had sung with two doo-wop groups, the Pearls and the Valentines.

The original 45 rpm single was released on the independent Clock Records label but the LP which featured it was released by RCA Victor by arrangement with Clock.

Cortez had another Top Ten hit in 1962 with "Rinky Dink" on Chess Records. This record became well known in the UK as the signature tune of the Saturday afternoon programme Professional Wrestling, introduced by Kent Walton, although few knew the name of the tune or the artist. The song has a strong resemblance to 1957's "Love Is Strange" by Mickey & Sylvia, since it used the same guitar riff.

In 2011, after a 39-year hiatus from recording, Cortez returned with a new album on Norton Records backed by Lonnie Youngblood and His Bloodhounds, including underground luminary Mick Collins of the Dirtbombs and the Gories.

I'm Happy
Dave 'Baby' Cortez Lyrics

We have lyrics for 'I'm Happy' by these artists:

(printer friendly) Well, I'm happy, I just wanna sing about it. I'm…
Al Jolson What care I who makes the laws of a nation Let…
Bury the Wren Take a look at me The makeup on my face Anyone can…
Busy Beavers I'm happy, I'm happy I'm sad, I'm sad I'm happy, I'm happy I…
Dave The judge said, “all come to order. Let’s try to…
Denis Leary [scatting] I'm happy Oh yes, I'm happy Friends, I sing the …
Earl I can't help but smile I got sunshine I'm happy all the…
Eric Chou 雷雨依舊奔跑著世界像你模糊停格總以為能永遠愛著時間卻幫我們上了一課路無法倒退我錯過機會我說著…
Glam.I.Rock And baby, maybe you've been saved And you just don't…

Gorillaz I ain't happy, I'm feeling glad I got sunshine, in a…
Imagine Dragons What's wrong with me? Is there somebody else inside my head …
Ioana Iorgu I hate the way days end I am happy, ask me…
Kandi Oh, oh, oh, I guess you don't miss a good thing…
L. Ron Hubbard たった今君たちに映る俺はとても苦しそうに見えるかもしれないそれでもどうか殺さないでくれ本当に目を閉じてしまうま…
Lee Sora 날 용서해 너에게 이런 말 정말 하고 싶지 않아 그러나 이젠…
M-Core Da Omkor I'm smiling today because I know the sun is on…
Mr. Al What care I who makes the laws of a nation? Let…
Mr. Ray & The Little Sunshine Kids I’m very happy healthy and prosperous So very happy healthy …
Randy Before this dance is through I think I'll love you too I'm…
Robert Gill & the Gill-O-Teens Every day seems like a year, Sweetheart, when you are not…
Russian Village Boys Sun shining on my head I don’t need a hat I married…
Socialburn I've been sitting here for a while Wishing I could finally…
Songwriterz I'm Happy I'm happy I got a story here to tell Summertime,…
Terra Naomi This city's just waiting to crack This house is not a…
Yoon Hang-Ki 나는 행복합니다 (빠바밤) 나는 행복합니다 (빠바밤) 나는 행복합니다 (빠바밤) 이글스라 행복합니다 (딴딴딴…

We have lyrics for these tracks by Dave 'Baby' Cortez:

Come See About Me I've been crying 'Cause I'm lonely (for you) Smiles have all…
Come Softly To Me I've been crying 'Cause I'm lonely (for you) Smiles have all…
Happy Organ The best things in life are free But you can keep…
Peg Leg peg leg! everyone's doing it like they should one leg down…

You Talk Too Much You talk too much, you worry me to death, You talk…

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@pamalford8319

17w↑7

Skated to this tune at roller rinks in the early 60's. I can still feel the wind flying through my hair going around those corners. What fun!

@harryknackers7892

3y↑157

This song is so far ahead of its time, the world still hasn't caught up.

@theloanranger2632

3y↑5

Is your name really Harry Knackers?? What the frick...

@kristopherguilbault5428

2y↑8

@@theloanranger2632 are u really the lone ranger? My Father worked at a place where he gave out business loans so his handle on everything was always the "Loan" Ranger lol

@Luke-im8sv

1y↑4

@@kristopherguilbault5428 That’s quite Clever of your pops to do that… he sounds like a pleasant man ❤

@skeletonshorror5184

37w↑2

Totally, it’s amazing

@BlazeRobbinsForever

23w↑2

I literally love this music! May it live on!

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@marialeblanc3434

2y↑57

I have loved this song since it came out in 1958 I'm 77 now and I have Alexa play it for me in the mornings.....nothing starts the day out better than a little Happy Organ......I remember sitting in History class at Queen Anne High in Seattle and hearing this song on someones car radio outside the window...everyone in the class started jiving to it .....fell in love with it the first time I heard it.....

@joanmiller2219

35w↑1

😂I'm 57 and remember dancing in living room with my mom and sister and brother when we were like 4,5,6!! I couldn't sit still when this came on!!

@dennishill2907

31w↑1

Lol, I’m 76 n remember riding my bicycle uptown to buy this song. You r right , great song!

@God.Real.Account

19w↑1

@marialeblanc3434 I usually just say ok boomer, but this is a good story and you're a good boomer.🙌🏼

@violet2048

2y↑81

Truely the epitome of rock'n'roll. It just makes you happy right down to your toenails. Mr. Cortez is still living, and I'd like to give him a shout out from 1959. Still playing your music. Best wishes from California.

@n2bfw884

2y↑1

I bet he rocked a lot of theatres and stadiums with this.

@williamjordan5554

1y↑1

The epitome of rock would feature a vocalist, and use a blues sequence.

@homeaccount5943

2y↑55

Why can't music nowadays be this good ?

@Lukeja514

1y↑2

I agree

@davidhull1481

29w

It is, for the people who like it. In 50 years they’ll be saying this same thing. That’s how memory, aging, and the world works.

@homeaccount5943

29w↑1

@@davidhull1481 Wrong. Bad music is always going to be bad music. Good music is timeless.

@God.Real.Account

19w↑1

@homeaccount5943 It can and it is.

@homeaccount5943

19w

@@God.Real.Account Only if you're either deaf, or retarded.

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@sooz9433

2y↑7

Back in 62 I was all OVER Hudson's Roller Rink everytime this song blasted out!! 4'11" and 99# of total unbridled energy!!! Thank you for the memories! 😁🧡
Soundtrack of my youth 🎼🖤

@ns4270railfan

1y↑13

What a great record to bust out some epic dance moves. This is why I love old music. The old stuff is better than the modern day garbage. Rock and roll records from the 1950s were the best.

@God.Real.Account

19w

What a worn out, boring narrative.🥱

@christywhitley6053

2y↑11

I used to play this song back to back, over and over as a kid. Someone gave me a crate of old 45 lps when I was about 6 yrs old and this was my favorite. My granddaughter asked me today what were some of my favorite songs when I was growing up and this one came to mind. Great surprise to find it so I can share with her! 🎶 Thank you!

@haroldgillette7157

49w↑6

How can anyone not like this? Great keyboards!!!,Dave " Baby"!

@inkadinkadoodle

1y↑17

This song is a standut childhood memory for me! This song was on an 8-track oldies collection that my Dad played in our van, and he had the LP (vinyl) version as well. :) I've always loved this song!
I was born in 1968 -- the music of the 80s was that of my teen years, but by then, I'd had a solid upbringing of all kinds of oldies.
I'm glad and grateful that I was raised with music and an understanding of the world before I was born. I truly wonder how many of today's kids have that!

@user-jl6zl2iu9q

25w↑2

One of the greatest instrumental recordings of all times! The title is sublime! Can you imagine a "Happy Organ"? Masterful! @@@*** Sembene, in Chicago ***@@@

@God.Real.Account

19w

I have a happy organ.🤗

@lynda5176

1y↑6

I love it!!! I grew up in the '50's & 60's.

@sammyvh11

I was born in 58 my best friends dad had a sub shop in Baltimore and in it was a juke box. He brought all the 45 home after they left the top 40. We listened to this one the most.

@jdsguam

3y↑93

My favorite song as a small child. Now at 66, I still love it.

@mr.ramfan8100

3y↑7

I hear that....

@AshleyBabyGirl1219

3y↑4

I'm 28 and loved 4his song as a baby and still do

@johndeere865

3y↑2

It will never get old.

@paulbfields8284

3y↑4

Me too.. I was too young to read but old enough to put records on the RCA HiFi.. so I put a sticker on the side I liked when my older brothers would play it so I could remember which I liked. I had to be four years old.. 1960

@scotthayes4135

2y↑1

I really like this song, I was born in 1982, I wasn't even around when it was first released.

@leonardscott8566

1y↑3

One of my favorites from the 1950's

@aliasdyln33

4y↑76

This tune is a timeless gem. Not just my opinion . . . just a true fact.

@rodmcdonough6111

3y↑1

Who plays that wild lead guitar?

@aliasdyln33

3y↑2

@@rodmcdonough6111 I do know that, thanks for asking Rod. See, as I was born in the early 1960's, I so remember my Dad used to like playing the SAME records in our living room before dinner - most every Sunday. One of the tunes was Lee Dorsey's "Ya Ya" song. Wild Jimmy Spruill, guitarist, played on that song as well as this true gem.

@artmallon767

2y↑1

Awesome love the song

@user-fn5tj8ru3g

24w↑1

This is my first instrumental that still love since the 50’s now 74❤

@YY4Me133

1y↑5

I haven't heard this for decades, yet I saw the name, and the tune started playing in my head.

@thomastarwater6035

7y↑5

I want to thank PJDooWop for posting this classic rock and roll instrumental on YouTube. You just don't hear good instrumental dance music like this any more. What a crying shame. And thank you Dave Baby Cortez for recording this ditty and making the Hammond B-3 rock out. God bless.

@cherylcarden7406

2y↑11

Our town had a DJ at the local RnR station who played this every night as his signature sign-off song. Since I am also a keyboard player, I fell in love with this hit and the talent of "Baby Cortez.

@muffs55mercury61

2y↑5

Number One for a week in May, 1959. Not quite old enough to remember it when it was new but I've loved this '50s classic since I was a kid. In 1962 Dave returned to the Top 10 with "Rinky Dink" another hot instrumental.

@alirashawi7429

2y↑23

2022 and still love the happy organ by Dave baby Cortez what a great tune

@vancouverterry9142

32w↑1

I'm in my 70's and remember this song was treasured by the radio disc jockeys of the day. Such straight-up rocking really led us all to see how our insides can go wild outside of ourselves in joyous abandon on the dance floor or with a rock'n'roll instrument. The joy is freeing and empowering.

@anthonym.pacelli1960

46w↑3

If you listen to this song and don't smile or tap your feet you need to check your pulse. The first time I heard it was back in the early 60's and instantly feel in love with it.

@butchburgin5027

6y↑212

Absolutely the best roller skating rink song EVER!!

@dennisvails366

5y↑14

Yes it is and i am passing you now to win the free coke

@biggmike5991

4y↑6

Lenny's Skate City Venice, FL 1970

@acapps6341

4y↑3

I don't know...our rink out in Kansas played a LOT of The Village People and "Fire Island" was great for fast skating!

@tashmoobabe8704

4y↑3

Sugar Shack.

@im1who84u

4y↑3

Oh yea, it is hot for roller skating.
Go to Youtube and type in:

Doctor And The Medics - Spirit In The Sky

And check that one out.

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@mikekaup5252

44w↑1

Great for roller rink skating. Brings back memories of the era.

@dingbat3440

3y↑18

Heard this song in a Sopranos episode and it whiplashed me back to when I was a young child in the mid 90s riding in the backseat, hearing this on CBS FM oldies when they still played 50s stuff. Now they're playing "What is Love" by Haddaway... I feel old.

@hoomanot

The Haddaway bit made me chuckle. Are you 30+?

@dingbat3440

@@hoomanot I turned 30 this month.

@hoomanot

3y↑1

@@dingbat3440 Belated Happy Birthday! Nostalgia can drive one crazy.

@dingbat3440

@@hoomanot Thanks

@thethreadgillthr33

4y↑47

When I was little, my mom took a bunch of Polaroid pictures and took them to a video store where someone put them together on a couple of tapes, like a slideshow, along to a sound track. The guy picked the soundtrack himself, and this was one of many songs he chose. It’s one of my favorites, and reminds me of my childhood to this day.

@fortuneroad

3y↑9

I was a child in British Guiana listening to this song. Great memories

@jessieh600

2y↑1

...wish I had been a teenager back then...😢😢😢😢❤🇺🇸❤

@Bluzharp2

39w

My brother and I played this at 78 rpm when we were kids. Awesome song!

@chetpomeroy1399

4y↑27

This really brings back fond, carefree childhood memories of living with my family in California's San Gabriel Valley in the 60's. Wish I could go back!

@mytexasdays1526

4y↑2

I'm here because someone in the San Gabriel Facebook group mentioned this song. Shamrock Roller Rink. Thought I'd listen to the song. What is the other popular roller rink organ song?

@mrcirincione9719

@@mytexasdays1526 Where do you I don't understand your message

@alanstrong55

29w

There will never be another tune like The Happy Organ.

@darrylevans4401

6y↑101

One of the greatest instruments ever recorded

@runcaz7802

Yeah, but what about the ones that WERE NOT recorded?

@darrylevans4401

3y↑2

@@runcaz7802 What about them they got recorded so what. So what does that have do with anything.

@terriclark4255

AWWWWWW. I LOVED THIS AS A CHILD. IM 74

@donholt2025

3y↑18

I'm too young to have heard it new. But I did hear it on AM radio in the 70s, & immediately liked it. It's one of those songs you can't sit still to. Whether moving your feet of all of you, it's a great tune!

@fortuneroad

3y↑2

From Guyana...one of my.most favourite memorie

@artmallon767

2y↑3

I'm still hopping makes me feel good all over

@johnnyphillipsjr2715

2y↑1

I live in East Alabama, and this cut was played on an AM station in 1959, from the radio WCLS, from Columbus GA.

@girlpopladyboots

43w↑1

my dad used to play this song all the time, and being younger, i used to hate it because it got so repetitive. i’m 17 almost 18 now, and since then, my dads passed on for a little less than a year. it brings back a lot of great memories, and it’s one of my favorite songs. miss you papa and thank you for introducing me to such great music 💞

@davidberchtold3859

24w

Working as a second shift producer for radio station WRIE AM 1330, I would hear this wonderful gem of a tune during commercial breaks for the Mike Harvey Supergold Show every Sunday evening from 7 to midnight.

@judymcfarland9834

3y↑4

I love Dave Baby. Cortez, The Happy Organ, one of my favorites and all his other songs soooooo very much!❤🥰❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

@alijuboori1328

3y↑9

Loved this music since 1959 one of the best ever thanks Dave

@911NightRanger

3y↑7

I was born way after this song came out. Heard it a couple decades ago on a oldies station, fell in love!!!

@mrgolf561

48w↑3

simply awesome! I love this tune.

@violet2048

2y↑1

I hope everyone who's listening to this reads the comments. They are wonderful! Love to All.

@marshahamilton83

3y↑17

Even in the 1980’ s , in my mind this was one of my favorite songs to roller skate too

@earlbedford5951

3y↑3

'In the 1980's, 'Happy Organ' was the opening theme song of 'One on One' the Fordham University Sports Talk show on campus radio station WFUV 90.7 FM in New York City ( Bronx ). The show remains the longest running sports show in NYC. Probably, in the entire country.

@DevilDogDen1775

21w

1965: I'm 5 years old, this 45 is playing on the record player in our house. I'm standing on my mom's feet and we're dancing in the living room ❤❤❤❤

@aliso-pv7ll

4y↑15

The year was 1959, when this hit rolled into our rinks!

@edwardgarza1962

3y↑2

yes indeed...1959 it waw!!!
was

@thevirginian5746

5y↑40

This song always brings a smile to my face. Kinda makes me feel nostalgic for the "good old days"...

@dangallagher364

I remember roller skating to this song in 1962-63

@user-uy3fb6ck2o

3y↑2

Very Best Music!!!
Original...
Interesting...
Absolutely Dance Ritm!!!
Thanks!!!

@mariellemartin7372

3y↑1

73 and still love it.

@59Rosco

4y↑12

Dave "Baby" Cortez, Bob Seger, and Grand Funk Railroad. The three best contributors to ever come out of Michigan.

@sydneyr138

3y↑2

Stooges and Motown

@johnfarrell3077

3y↑1

Mitch Ryder and Iggy Pop would like a word ....

@warriyorcat

2y↑1

As divisive as they are Madonna and Eminem are also MI natives.

@59Rosco

2y↑1

@@warriyorcat Seger's a uniter, WarriyorCat!

@JoshuaMoore1948

2y↑2

this is the song my wife and I played, from our ice cream truck, when we sold ice cream. good memories

@georelbonai8244

3y↑10

No wonder why it called "The Happy Organ" because you can hear how happy the organ singing this🕺🏽💃

@MrTOCOJETO

21w

Got to be one of the greatest rock and roll instrumentals of all time Dave Cortez one of the greatest Key board players of all time. I used to play this before walking to the school bus stop every day

@Rickman357

3y↑1

Brings a Smile! to my face

@afton1955

5y↑17

One of my mom's favorite songs. I remember her playing this on her blue and white Motorola record player. Strange how one simple song can conjure up a past memory.

@homeaccount5943

2y↑3

I loved this, when I first heard my Dad play it on 45, many years ago. I still love it.

@reyknudson7091

3y↑3

A VERY NICE AND UPBEAT INSTRUMENTAL!! I STILL LOVE IT! THANKS FOR SHARING! R.K. 3/14/2021.

@mikewasfaret9563

26w

I remember listening to this on my folks 45s in the early 70s.

@mousiespanks2379

4y↑17

One of the great instrumental songs to go to Number 1 on Billboard

@TDIBone

2y↑1

Also the first of 25. Last was in 2013.

@ronkeast3100

5y↑11

I remember the first time I heard this, it was on CHUM 1050 AM radio in Toronto while I was visiting my cousin on the farm in Shelburne Ont. in 1959. RockinRonny

@TheGizmo47

46w

i was born in the 1940's always loved music and still do i have never heard of this tune until it popped up today and never heard of the band so how could it have been this massive hit

@artmallon767

2y↑1

The song always gets me hopping it Tickles. My insides

@glenmurphy7020

3y↑4

That's when music 🎶 was music. It had feeling that made you want to do something.

@timmy841212

Another Detroit rock legend.

@louiseanneblais1994

3y↑4

I remember this from so long ago I still love it!!!!!

@timtremblay8601

8y↑61

"Big Hit" played millions of times on the AM Radio back in the day~!

@david.e.miller

9y↑71

This is one of the first songs I can remember listening to as a very young child. It was an old record even then. Great recording!

@mr.warmth1511

8y↑2

i must eat or i get the shakes, hope you all live 1,000 years ty

@briancolon8759

7y↑4

+mr. warmth i agree most definately; & @ 1,000 years you mind, & body be like it was 20 years, & instead if passung away @ 1,000 instantly, thus painlessly, eve one better yet(by far) is ratherly just disapear like star trek; beam me up scotty.

@runcaz7802

5y↑2

Same here, as a 6 or 7 yr old, and I loved it.

@Jimfromerth

5y↑2

Aah! A young child now we are old childs.lol!😎

@christywhitley6053

Me too!

@edwardgarza1962

3y↑3

great song...the happy organ!!!

@shelleycunningham9679

3y↑1

I remember the song when I was a child I used to do the Charleston to it. And then roller skated later on in the years. That in California girls were about the two songs to roller skate 2. And spirited in the sky my Norman greenbaum

@reyknudson7091

4y↑4

A NICE instrumenal! Thanks for the Upload! R.K.

@allisoncorona7381

3y↑2

I would put it on a par with "Classical Gas" and"Dueling Banjos".

@thomaslombardo3401

5y↑11

Still love this song after all these years. 😊

@alanstrong3295

4y↑2

Heard it for the first time in 1970 on WOW radio 590, Omaha. A good bit late.

@lovescoffee9780

1y↑1

Still love this song 50yrs later

@AN-ii5li

4y↑17

Outta respect to my fawtha...

@johnopalko5223

5y↑9

I remember hearing this all the time on the radio ("You're listening to WIND, 560 AM, Westinghouse Broadcasting for Chicago!") when I was a little kid. I never knew the name of the song or the artist until now. Thanks!

@paullindsay1622

3y↑1

The song I listened to back in High School (mid 90"s) that i banged my head to & never knew the name until many years later.

@SimonBeirne

49w

This tune/song was before my time.

@perfectstrangr0

5y↑11

I was in the 7th grade, couldn't get enough of this. It's still got that BAMM!!!

@carloyngilbert1300

2y↑2

we used to skate to that song at the roller rink.

@goldsilver21

5y↑13

One of my favorite oldies tunes!

@yolandajohnson8685

5y↑18

this is a 1959 masterpiece!!!!!!

@DurandMj

7 yrs. old attending High Point Elementary school, West Seattle Wa.

@susanbeverly2186

4y↑1

7 years prior to my existence on this earth! It is, indeed, a masterpiece!

@PatrickSherman-dg6co

Dave Baby made the church organ Rock n Roll

@robertyoung8413

3y↑5

Sounds as good today as it did then! Thanks for posting this old aural gem!

@rebelxv4466

4y↑8

A lot of my friends would say my favorite song would be by Diana Ross, Barry White or Tammy Wynette. But this is my favorite song ever.

@jeffrobodine7054

I used to listen to this song over and over when I was a little boy. Played it on my RCA Victor portable record player in my room back in the early 60s.

@Jefflantern483

3y↑3

Yes remember my oldest sister had this song on an old various 50’s music collection on a record in the early 70’s & the little stereo set that had lighting the flashed to the beat of the music! 🙂🙂🎵🎵

@karenheimbach4226

2y↑1

I love this song

@johnmaloney7518

I voted so many times on a rotary dial phone to keep this song in the top 10 on my favorite radio station WBBF , my finger hurt.

@REGROY1913

3y↑4

I love this song! I was about 7 years old when it came out.

@davidshur3882

2y↑1

I had this album when I was a kid. Can't remember who gave it to me- my father usually bought me classical music.

@PIANOPHUNGUY

5y↑19

A great song for the ice/roller rink!

@justinalmorado7276

3y↑1

I like to blast this driving through the hood on spinners

@yukimikasaki9705

4y↑2

From the AM tube radio in my '59 Studebaker Lark as I pulled into Ricky's Drive-In and not only ordered a char-broiled (and so much better than Burger King) Double Cheeseburger Deluxe, fries, onion rings, and a strawberry malted, but Mary, the blonde car hop who waited on me and I both met, and through friendship, and courtship, we became husband and wife! Mary outlived the old Stude Lark, but eventually followed it, sadly. This song is THE tangible reminder of the only girl I ever loved in my life, not to mention if I should see a '59 Lark anywhere.

@beverlysmith9854

3y↑5

Love his music , such a happy sound!

@AtlantaGymFan

4y↑7

Great song when instrumentals were million sellers!

@ronniewelch440

Brings back great memories from my childhood. Spent hours at Parkey's Roller Rink on Saturdays skating to this whimsical, light, airy arrangement.

@sauquoit13456

7y↑9

On this day in 1959 {May 15th} Dave 'Baby' Cortez performed the instrumental "Happy Ogan" on the Dick Clark ABC-TV network weekday-afternoon program 'American Bandstand'...
At the time the song was at #1 on Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart; it entered the chart on March 10th, 1959 and remained on the Top 100 for 17 weeks...
It reached #5 on Billboard's Hot R&B Singles chart...
Between 1959 and 1973 he had eight Top 100 records; two made the Top 10, his other Top 10 record was "Rinky Dink", and it peaked right at #10 on September 9th, 1962 and stayed on the Top 100 for 14 weeks...
David Cortez Clowney will celebrated his 79th birthday in three months on August 13th {2017}...

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His note about Jimmy Spruill made me listen to the guitar solo for the first time - excellent!

I'm guessing Spruill was a session musician, one of so many who made these records hits.