This was the Same Guy!

I just read the book, So You Think You Know Rock N Roll and a few times, Peter Meltzer names singers that I didn't realize we're the same person. It happened more than I realized. 

Here's one

A few years back, the radio station, WOGL, in Philadelphia played a song called "Groovy Situation." It was one of those songs were the DJ plays the song all the time in a group of songs then they tell you all the songs or just the artists. The listener can't tell which song it was that he or she liked. I knew the words but didn't know the song. I wrote the radio station and asked what song is it was. I quoted the words to the song in the letter.  I got a handwritten letter response because the deejays loved that bit of trivia. The song was "Groovy Situation." 

The artist was Gene Chandler. 

Gene Chandler had a number 1 song called "Duke of Earl." That song was a monster. He did the song in the movie, Don't Knock The Twist. Because of that song, Chandler became the Duke of music. Even his website, TheDukedom acknowledges this. Chandler would wear a monocle, a cape, top hat and carry a walking stick in concert. 

He later became a music producer. How do you top a song that overtakes you and the music world like that?  For a one hit wonder, that was big. It still gets radio play 50 years later. 

Turns out, Chandler wasn't a one hit wonder.

Chandler would have a big R&B hit with the "Girl Don't Care." The song was a mournful soulful ballad.  How different are these two songs? 

In 1970, practically a decade later, Chandler comes back with "Groovy Situation." That little dinging fill between verses is such an earworm. Get that out of your head. 

Seriously these songs were by the same guy!