Johnny Mann

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* Born 30 August 1928, Baltimore, Maryland The clean, clear, strong unison voices of the Johnny Mann Singers gave mothers and fathers reassurance that not all hope was lost while America seemed to be going to hell in a handbasket during the 1960s. While sullen, unkempt rock stars sang crazed lyrics "as if they hated their mothers," as Vic Mizzy put it, the Johnny Mann Singers, dressed in clean white pants and skirts, red V-neck sweaters, and white turtlenecks, proudly called for America to "Stand Up and Cheer" on their weekly television series. It was this same celebration of the status quo that appealed to its sponsors, who regularly turned to Johnny and his singers for hearty paens to laundry detergent, toothpaste, and cars. An accurate soundscape of the 1960s needs to include not just Jim Morrisona nd Jimi Hendrix but "This is My Country." Student revolution and free love may have made a People's Park out of a vacant lot in Berkeley, but Ronald Reagon and Ed Meese brought in the National Guard to kick them out. And you can guess whose albums were in Ron and Nancy's collection. I don't mean to slight the unmistakable skill reflected in Johnny Mann's impressive body of work. A graduate of the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, he settled in Hollywood after serving in an Army band during the Korean War. After first working as a orchestrator for Columbia, Warners, and other studios, he returned to his first love, choral music, for the NBC series, "Comedy Hour." An early add

top songs

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Buffalo Bop - Problem Child

2007 - Buffalo Bop - Problem Child

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Beatle Ballads

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Invisible Tears/We Can Fly! Up-Up and Away

BB CD 55185 - Problem Child

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Radar Eletro Dance

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Sixties Mann

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Invisible Tears

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60's 129 Original Hits

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June is Johnny Mann Month

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Great Band With Great Voices/Swing the Great Voices of the Great Bands

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VA.-.60s.150.Original.Hits.(20

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