Artist: Dave "Baby" Cortez
Song: "The Whistling Organ"
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Born in Detroit on August 13, 1938, David Cortez Clowney was the first performer to have a hit in the USA where the organ was featured as lead instrument. Not only that, but in 1959 his popular hit "The Happy Organ" was the first instrumental single ever to reach #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 pop charts. You can read more about Dave "Baby" Cortez here and here, click here to watch an awful homemade video for "The Happy Organ," and below you'll find the LP liner notes, where Ira Howard hails the music of Dave "Baby" Cortetz as "almost inspiring."
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