Diane Renay
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Diane Renay (born July 13, 1945), born Renee Diane Kushner, is an American pop singer, best known for her 1964 hit song, "Navy Blue".
Early life
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Renay was born to a
Career
Record producer/songwriter Pete DeAngelis was a frequent customer at the Kushners' family jewelry store, and Renay's parents arranged for her to audition for him. DeAngelis, impressed with her talents, got Renay signed to the Atco Records label. Under the new stage name Diane Renay, she released her first single, "Little White Lies", in 1962, but it failed to chart nationally, as did the follow-up, "A Dime a Dozen", and Atco dropped her from the label.
However,
Renay's only other single release to crack the national Billboard chart was "
Renay remains active as a performer today and in 2001 released Diane Renay Sings Some Things Old and Some Things New, a double-CD compilation album of her work (including many previously unreleased tracks) from the 1960s through the 1990s.
Album
| Year | Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US | US | |||
| 1964 | Navy Blue |
|
54 | 55 |
Singles
| Year | Title | Label | Catalogue
number |
Peak chart positions | Album | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US | US | US AC | CAN | |||||
| 1962 | "Little White Lies"
b/w "Falling Star" |
Atco | 45-6240 | — | — | — | N/A | Non-album singles |
| 1963 | "A Dime a Dozen"
b/w 'Tender" |
45-6262 | — | — | — | |||
| "Navy Blue"
b/w "Unbelievable Guy" |
20th Century Fox | 456 | 6 | 6 | 1 | Navy Blue | ||
| 1964 | "Kiss Me Sailor"
b/w "Soft Spoken Guy" |
477 | 29 | 28 | — | |||
| "Growin' Up Too Fast"
b/w "Waitin' for Joey" |
514 | 124 | — | — | 34 | Non-album singles | ||
| "It's In Your Hands"
b/w "A Present from Eddie" (from Navy Blue) |
533 | 131 | — | — | — | |||
| "Watch Out, Sally!"
b/w "Billy Blue Eyes" |
MGM | K13296 | 101 | 95 | — | — | ||
| 1965 | "I Had a Dream"
b/w "Troublemaker" |
K13335 | — | — | — | — | ||
| "The Company You Keep"
b/w "Words" |
New Voice | 800 | — | — | — | — | ||
| "Happy Birthday, Broken Heart"
b/w "Cross My Heart, Hope to Die" |
803 | — | — | — | — | |||
| 1966 | "Soldier Boy"
b/w "Words" (Non-album track) |
813 | — | — | — | — | Navy Blue | |
| "Navy Blue" (reissue)
b/w "Unbelievable Guy" |
20th Century Fox | 45-6456 | — | — | — | — | ||
| "Please Gypsy"
b/w "Dynamite" |
United Artists | UA 50048 | — | — | — | — | Non-album singles | |
| 1968 | "Can't Help Loving That Man"
b/w "It's Good Day For A Parade" |
D-Man | D-101 | — | — | — | — | |
| 1969 | "Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me"
b/w " |
Fontana | F-1679 | — | — | — | — | |
See also
Bibliography
- Larkin, Colin. The Encyclopedia of Popular Music, 3rd edition, Macmillan, 1998.
- Ruppli, Michel; Novitsky, Ed. The Mercury Labels. A Discography, Vol. V., record and artist indexes, Greenwood Press, 1993.
- Whitburn, Joel. The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits, 5th edition, Watson-Guptill Publications, 1992.
References
- ^ Tim Warden. "ARSA | The Rocking Ghosts". Las-solanas.com. Retrieved 2016-01-14.
External links
- Diane Renay discography at Discogs
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