Johnny Angel

🎙️👓 On June 5, 1961, a quiet man with dark glasses and a voice like no other reached the very top of the U.S. charts — and he did it with a song that broke all the rules. Roy Orbison’s “Running Scared” became his first #1 hit in America on this day, marking a new chapter in rock and roll history. Following up the success of “Only the Lonely” and “Blue Angel,” this haunting ballad turned a standard pop structure on its head — building and building... with no chorus and a stunning, operatic clim

RIP Johnny Tillotson (April 20, 1938 – April 1, 2025[ was an American singer-songwriter. He enjoyed his greatest success in the early 1960s, when he scored nine top-ten hits on the pop, country, and adult contemporary Billboard charts, including “Poetry in Motion” and the self-penned “It Keeps Right On a-Hurtin’” and “Without You Johnny Tillotson - Earth Angel (Live TV Show, 1959) “Earth Angel”, occasionally referred to as “Earth Angel (Will You Be Mine)”, is a song by American doo-wop group the