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JEANNE BLACK

“HE’LL HAVE TO STAY”

(Joe & Audrey Allison,

Charles Grean)

Capitol 4368

No. 4    May 30, 1 960

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Jeanne was  born Gloria Jeanne on October 25, 1937, in Mount Baldy, California.  Her singing

ability was  discovered while on a  trip in the family car–her harmonizing with sister Janie in the

back seat didn’t sound bad at all; to parental ears.  With a swiftness, the girls were brought to the

attention of CLIFFIE STONE, bandleader and executive at Capitol Records.  Jeanne  made many

appearances on Cliffie’s local TV program, Hometown Jamboree, and eventually was  given the

chance to record; an “answer record” to Jim Reeves’ colossal C & W crossover  hit, “He’ll Have To

Go.”

For those out of the know, since “answer records” are not a cool happening, at this date:  An

answer record takes the recognizable central idea and usually the notable melody from what is

most usually a hit recording and places it in the heart and soul of a “new” song; making some

comment on the origianl.  The Capitalist/cooperate and operating idea is that if the public liked it a

whole bunch the first time and they still look a mite hungry, well then, they just may eat up the

second offering, too.  It doesn’t always work:  answer records to Buchanan & Goodman’s  “The

Flying Saucer” and Ray Peterson’s “Tell Laura I Love Her” staffed as badly as if the record labels

had issued obscure and terrible at that Ubangi tribal recordings.

Reaching the number four position, “He’ll Have To Stay” was as successful an answer record as

has ever been made.  An interesting new twist was when some mush-mouthed individual named

Brumley Plunket came up with an answer to Jeanne’s answer entitled “He’d Better Go.”

Jeanne’s visual presence was low-key, and she sang in a pop-country style that was just beginning

to be dubbed  “The Nashville Sound.”   This style was not “real” country & western music as the old

folks knew it, but it wasn’t rock’n’roll, either.  Despite the protests of traditionalists, the  Nashville

country-pop blend did continue to pick up a  following and grow in popularity.

Jeanne’s career, however, just seemed to fade away.  After “Lisa” (#43, 1960), Jeanne was rushed

into the studio in the initial burst of heat generated by Elvis Presley’s “Are You Lonesome  To­

night?”  An  answer record,  “Oh, How  I Miss You Tonight,” was concocted, but the  public wasn’t

buying this time, or ever again.