Since the start of his career in the 1950s and ’60s, Dion has surrounded himself with women — whether via musical odes like “Runaround Sue,” “Donna the Prima Donna,” and “Ruby Baby” or through collaborations with musicians like Ronnie Spector, […]
Since the start of his career in the 1950s and ’60s, Dion has surrounded himself with women — whether via musical odes like “Runaround Sue,” “Donna the Prima Donna,” and “Ruby Baby” or through collaborations with musicians like Ronnie Spector, […]
In “My Stomping Ground,” the driving, horn-stoked rocker that gives his new album its title, Dion is back in the Bronx, where as a youth he first fell in love with music, from doo-wop to the blues. He spies three […]
By 1962, when Dion became the first rock artist ever signed to Columbia Records, he already had quite a resume. On the Laurie label, he had scored seven Top 40 hits with the Belmonts, including classics like “I Wonder Why” […]
F. Scott Fitzgerald is often quoted as saying there are no second acts in American lives, but as he observed for himself, second acts abound; not least of which was his own. But third acts are indeed rare, and particularly […]
From “Teenager In Love” to Robert Johnson? It’s hard to conjure a less likely career arc — that a singer who competed with the Bobbys, Frankies and Fabians within the Top 40 of the early 1960s should release the best […]
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