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Singer Lenny Welch, 86, died on April 8. Welch began recording in 1960, having success with such new songs and covers as "Since I Fell for You," "Ebb Tide,” "You Don't Know Me,” "A Taste of Honey," and “Breaking Up is Hard to Do.” He also sang the theme song to the 1967 TV show Coronet Blue (my sister and I loved that show). When his fad cooled down, Welch attended night school and drove a cab; he also sang with The Doo Wop All Stars. He noted that “I was never a Doo-Wop singer. I’m considered an ‘Oldies but Goodies’ singer, but I’m more of a nightclub performer.”
The Coronet Blue theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nqjw6gLDeLU
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I have a couple of stories that I could tell about the wonderful Lenny Welch, but I'll just tell one here. As the doo-wop queen from the Bronx (I know he didn't really consider himself as a doo-wop singer, but he sang some beautiful songs), I always looked for the opportunity to see the artists live. Back in the early 1980s, my ex-husband and I drove up to Monticello to spend a weekend at Kutsher's Country Club. (It wasn't really a country club, of course!). Lenny Welch was appearing on Saturday night. Before the show started, my husband and I went downstairs to go to the restroom, and who was coming out of the men's room? Lenny Welch! He told us that he had a bad cold so he didn't want to shake our hands, but it was still very exciting to see him. I asked him if he was going to be singing my favorite song, "I Need Someone", and he looked at me with complete surprise and said that he didn't know that anyone was aware that he had recorded that song long before he recorded his greatest hit! He apologized to me that he would not be singing that song that particular night, but would consider adding it into his repertoire in the future. That was the only time I got to see him live, and even with the cold, he sounded wonderful, may he rest in peace.