Word: grean
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hartford, Conn. 21 Kangas, Nick '60 B 5.9 165 Chicago, Ill. 23 Creamer, Michael '61 B 5.11 165 Birmingham, Ala. 24 Curran, Michael '61 B 5.11 170 W. Hartford, Conn. 30 Winkler, Richard '60 B 6.0 180 Hinsdale, Ill. 31 Hard, Ted '61 B 6.0 180 Dallas, Texas 32 Grean, Michael '59 B 5.10 187 Rye, N. Y. 33 Muller, Louis '61 B 5.0 170 Maywood, Ill. 34 Forstmann, Tony '60 B 5.11 205 Greenwich, Conn. 35 Blanchard, Robert '61 B 6.2 197 Hamden, Conn. 40 Hallas, Herbert '59 B 5.9 162 Windsor, Conn. 41 Kahn, Jeffrey...
...Labor Day weekend, a pop lyricist named Charles Grean (The Thing, Sweet Violets) was placidly cruising Long Island Sound in his 26-ft. skiff when he was struck by an inspiration. "With this hoop craze," he thought, "there's bound to be a song. Somebody ought to move fast!" Grean raced ashore and started to move. Next day he took his already completed lyrics around to his pal, Composer Bob Davie, and within an hour the two of them had batted out "a simple little teenage song with a good rock 'n' roll melody," named it Hoopa...
That was Monday. Tuesday morning the song was accepted by Atlantic Records. Tuesday night Grean flew to Chicago to have his touring wife, Singer Betty Johnson, record...
...song in 15 minutes, recorded it in a dozen takes in the early hours of Wednesday morning. Atlantic rushed the tapes into production, cutting enough "dubs" (sample acetate disks for immediate use, good for 15 to 20 plays) to give the New York disk jockeys a preview hearing (Grean also dispatched a pretty secretary to demonstrate the hoop motion to local deejays...
...days later the completed records started coming into Atlantic's New York offices, were promptly funneled out to a list of 2,500 key disk jockeys about the country. Atlantic distributors started setting up deejay hoop contests through the Middle West. Scarcely more than a week after Lyricist Grean landed, his song was on the market ahead of the competition, and the painful fruits of his inspiration were assaulting ears across the land...