Dale Wright

Musical Artist

1938 –

31

Who is Dale Wright?

Dale Wright was an early American rock & roll singer.

Wright was a disc jockey in Dayton, Ohio who signed to Fraternity Records after playing a song he'd written on the air. He recorded a sizable body of work for Fraternity in the late 1950s, some of it with backing band The Rock-Its, and hit the Billboard Hot 100 twice in 1958 with the singles "She's Neat" and "Don't Do it". By the early 1960s he had been dropped from Fraternity but continued recording for smaller labels well into the decade.

After his success as a singer waned Wright returned to radio, doing a talk show for a Lexington, Kentucky station.

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Born
Feb 4, 1938
Ohio
Also known as
  • Wright, Dale

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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