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She rose to stardom in 1960, when producer Jim Lee of Indigo Records chose a Sun Valley -based band, The Innocents, to sing back-up vocals for her on a cover version of The Rivileers ' 1954 recording of "A Thousand Stars". Two years earlier Lee had organized The Innocents for an appearance on Wink Martindale 's pop music TV show.
Jan 25, 2012 · Fascinated by the Innocents, Young introduced herself while they were signing autographs, asking how to go about making a record. Jim Lee, the Innocents manager, gave her his phone number and...
Kathy Young with The Innocents, "A Thousand Stars"...The single charted #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 in December 1960, two months after her 15th birthday...
Kathy Young and the original Innocents (Jim West, Darron Stankey and Al Candelaria) reunite to perform their 1960 hit, "A Thousand Stars" for a Doo-Wop Society of Southern California audience...
At this time a new, young female singer named Kathy Young was signed to the Indigo label; the Innocents were asked to provide the background vocals for her recordings. [2] The label used The Innocents' photos and name to gain publicity and thereby airplay for the Kathy Young singles.
From a time in America's history that was very brief indeed when the future looked as bright as those one thousand stars. Released in September 1960, "A Thousand Stars" became the third brightest star in the musical heavens on the Billboard Hot 100 on December 12, 1960. Film: The Locusts (1997).
Kathy Young & The Innocents Kathy Young is an American musician; she was a teen pop singer during the early 1960s, whose rendition of "A Thousand Stars", at age 15, rose to No. 3 on Billboard...