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Joanie Sommers
Joanie Sommers was born Joan Marie Drost in 1941. She started singing in church choirs and got her break in 1960 when producer Bob Keene signed her to...
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Joanie Sommers was born Joan Marie Drost in 1941. She started singing in church choirs and got her break in 1960 when producer Bob Keene signed her to Chancellor Records. Her first single 'Johnny Get Angry' didn't do much, but she found some attention with 'Why Do Fools Fall in Love' in 1961.
What people remember her for is 'Don't Pity Me,' the 1963 ballad written by Neil Sedaka and Howard Greenfield. That song showed what she could do with a vocal line, and it's the one that stuck. She recorded other songs like 'Little Girl Bad' and 'One Boy' around that time.
She put out several albums in the mid-1960s, including 'Joanie Sommers' in 1963 and 'Softly, as I Leave You' in 1966. Her husband Bob Keene died in 1966. She kept recording into the late 1960s with albums like 'Friends' in 1968.
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