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Gene Chandler biography, Gene Chandler discography
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Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources.Gene Chandler, "The Duke" was born Eugene Dixon, July 6, 1937, in Chicago, Illinois.He was drafted by the US Army to Germany for three years, returned to Chicago in 1960, and rejoined his bandmates.Through music industry contacts, the Dukays were offered a recording contract by Chicago based Nat Records.The first single was titled "The Girl Is Evil."Through many repetitions, it began to evolve.Earl Edwards' name was added.The song that evolved was "Duke of Earl."Jay records heard the song and wanted it for distribution as a song on his label, but only as a Gene Chandler record.Jay wasn't interested in The Dukays.Should he stick with his bandmates, or go solo?He recorded with The Dukays under the name "Gene Dixon" and recorded solo as "Gene Chandler".When VeeJay was finally able to release "Duke of Earl", it sent it out as by "The Duke Of Earl", although the Dukays had recorded it.Chandler can be seen in the full "Duke" outfit singing "The Duke of Earl" in the 1962 movie "Don't Knock the Twist", starring Chubby Checker.His concerts were legendary for pulling in a large crowd.Occasionally he would come out for another encore, usually "Rainbow."Chandler left Vee Jay and recorded for Constellation Records (which was bought by Chess Records) and for Brunswick Records.This left the record labels with having to work out a compromise."Just Be True" , another pop Top 20 in 1965 with "Nothing Can Stop Me", another Mayfield song, and hits throughout the 1960's with songs like " What Now ", " A Man's Temptation", "Bless Our Love","You Can't Hurt Me No More", and many more .To date, Chandler has had over 30 chart hits, hardly a "one hit wonder" after the success of " Duke Of Earl".Gene Chandler was ready to be on the other side of the microphone again.The hits he recorded and produced got him The National Association of Television and Radio Announcers Producer of the Year award in 1970.It should be noted that Chandler was nominated with Kenneth Gamble, Leon Huff and Norman Whitfield, who were very successful producers at that time, working with The Temptations and the Philadelphia soul sound.Legendary DJ Wolfman Jack put together a traveling show of "oldies" acts, and Gene Chandler joined them in the travels around the country.He also still wears the cape.This page was last modified on 7 February 2008, at 14:01.Change the value of a comment by clicking on a thumb.Then my older sis with "Rainbow 65" blastin' our house was jammin back then.Note: some videos not suitable for minors may still appear in search results.This video has been added to your favorites.Man, what's happened to our music today?Clearly this is Chandler's best.Gene was biting on Rainbow 65 too.The version that you're talking about is titled "Rainbow 80", and it was the shyt!!!But he has a much better version.The one where he goes, "I just wanna reach out and....If you can download it somehow make sure its the "extended" or "full" version because there's two parts to Rainbow '65.Would you like to comment?After viewing product detail pages or search results, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in.Look to the right column to find helpful suggestions for your shopping session.From 1962 to 1970 Gene Chandler put half a dozen songs in the top forty, but he will always be best known for the first of these.Born Eugene Dixon in Chicago in 1937, he attended Englewood High School where he formed a group called the Gaytones in 1955.Two years later he joined a local singing group known as the Dukays, and a short time later went to Germany to serve a hitch with the U.Dukays as lead singer, and the group signed with Nat the following year.Dukays vocalist Earl Edwards, who was known at the time as "Duke."When they ran into contract difficulties with Nat, Eugene Dixon left the group, changed his name to Gene Chandler, and began to promote the song.Chandler's recording of Duke Of Earl went to number one and remained there for three weeks early in 1962.Mayfield also wrote Rainbow, a song that was recorded by and is closely associated with Gene Chandler.Chandler began to dress up like ...Chand and Bamboo, on which he produced two cousins from Mississippi: Mel and Tim put Backfield In Motion in the top ten in 1969.Chandler followed up with a big hit of his own with Groovy Situation on Mercury in 1970.Born Eugene Dixon, he was a member of the doo wop group the Dukays and "Duke of Earl" was actually a Dukays recording; Dixon was renamed Gene Chandler and the single bore his credit as a solo singer.Curtis Mayfield and produced by Carl Davis."Get Down" (1978) and "Does She Have a Friend?"Please refresh the page to fix the problem.Write a ReviewYour TakeTell the world what you think about Gene Chandler!
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