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Hank Ballard was an American R&B singer and songwriter. He is best known for his hit songs "The Twist" and "Finger Poppin' Time". He was a member of the vocal group The Midnighters, and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990.
Hank Ballard was born in Detroit, Michigan, on November 18, 1927. He began singing in church choirs as a child, and later joined a gospel group called the Mount Zion Singers. He began his professional career in the early 1950s, singing with the Midnighters, a vocal group that had a string of hits in the 1950s and 1960s.
Hank Ballard wrote and recorded many of the group's songs, including "The Twist" and "Finger Poppin' Time". He also wrote and recorded solo hits such as "Let's Go, Let's Go, Let's Go" and "Work With Me Annie". He continued to record and perform until his death in 2003.
Hank Ballard was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990. He was also honored with a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2002. His net worth at the time of his death was estimated to be around $2 million.
| Popular As |
John Henry Kendricks |
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soundtrack,music_department |
| Age |
76 years old |
| Zodiac Sign |
Scorpio |
| Born |
18 November, 1927 |
| Birthday |
18 November |
| Birthplace |
Detroit, Michigan, USA |
| Date of death |
2 March, 2003 |
| Died Place |
Los Angeles, California, USA |
| Nationality |
United States |
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Hank Ballard Height, Weight & Measurements
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Who Is Hank Ballard's Wife?
His wife is Theresa McNeil (1983 - 17 October 1989) ( her death)
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Theresa McNeil (1983 - 17 October 1989) ( her death) |
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Hank Ballard Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2022-2023. So, how much is Hank Ballard worth at the age of 76 years old? Hank Ballard’s income source is mostly from being a successful Soundtrack. He is from United States. We have estimated
Hank Ballard's net worth
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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| Source of Income |
Soundtrack |
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Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame in 1990.
" However, by late 1961 the twist craze began to wane, as did Ballard & the Midnighters' record successes, and the group broke up. Ballard continued his career for the next 20 years, sometimes as a solo act and sometimes with different versions of The Midnighters.
Checker's version of the song zoomed to the #1 spot in 1960 and started a national "Twist" craze (in an unusual move, it was released again in 1962 and once more soared to the #1 spot). Ballard, rather than resenting Checker's success with his song, decided to capitalize on it and within a few months of the release of Checker's song had three hits in the top 40: "Finger Poppin' Time" (considered by many to be the quintessential Ballard/Midnighters song), "Let's Go, Let's Go, Let's Go" and the group's original version of "The Twist.
In 1958 Ballard left Federal for VeeJay Records and there he recorded a song he had written, called "The Twist. " VeeJay decided not to release it, but King Records--which owned VeeJay--signed the group away from that label and had them rerecord "The Twist" (it was on that record that the group was first billed as "Hank Ballard and the Midnighters" rather than just "The Midnighters", as they had been previously), but released it as the B-side of a ballad called "Teardrops On Your Letter". That song hit #4 on the R&B charts, but "The Twist" also started to get some recognition and airplay.
Their first hit was in 1953 with "Get It," and they had another, bigger hit the next year (by which time they had changed their names to The Midnighters to avoid being confused with another group, The Five Royals) with "Work With Me, Annie", a song that took a lot of heat from religious pressure groups because of its perceived "suggestive" lyrics and was banned from play on many radio stations. Their career stayed on track for another 18 months with several more hit records, but then their popularity began to wane and they didn't have another hit for more than three years. During that time there were numerous personnel changes in the group, and their record company, Federal Records, seemed to be backing away from them and toward a group it had just signed, The Famous Flames, headed by a shouting, hard-charging singer named James Brown.
Dick Clark, host of the teenage music/dance show American Bandstand (1952) (aka "American Bandstand"), took a liking to the song and had it recorded by a Philadelphia singer named Ernest Evans (renamed Chubby Checker--a play on R&B legend Fats Domino--by Clark's wife).
Hank Ballard grew up singing gospel in church in his hometown of Bessemer, Alabama. He had always wanted to sing professionally, and at 16 years of age got a chance to do it when he took over a group called The Royals, which had been organized in 1950 (and among whose original members were Levi Stubbs and Jackie Wilson). Ballard replaced one of the group's singers and immediately began to shift its style from that of smooth, harmonic pop melodies to a grittier R&B-edged, gospel-influenced - and at times quite suggestive - pop style.
