Who was/is Larry Finnegan ? - CDs, Vinyl LPs, DVD and more
Larry Finnegan
John Lawrence Finneran, better known as Larry Finnegan, was born on 10 August 1938 in the Jamaica district of New York and grew up in Queens, where his father was a policeman. As a boy he sang in the church choir and learned guitar, drums and piano. At the University of Notre Dame he studied communication arts; among his favourite artists were Johnny Cash and Don Gibson.
Together with his older brother Vincent he wrote the song Dear One. After many fruitless attempts, it found a hearing with Hy Weiss, owner of the small but successful Old Town Records. Weiss changed the surname from Finneran to Finnegan, reckoning that disc jockeys would more readily remember it.
In the spring of 1962 Dear One climbed the American charts and briefly made Larry a star. In the States he remained a one-hit wonder, yet his personal blend of rock 'n' roll, pop and country carried him onward. For more than a decade he toured Scandinavia, Germany and Switzerland, recording tirelessly.
Finnegan found his footing above all in Sweden: in 1963 Sonet invited him on an extensive tour and signed him as both singer and songwriter. With Chris Kenner's I Like It Like That he scored a big success there, and his own composition Johnny Loves Me became a hit. German sides, too, were made during this productive phase.
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