Dave (David) Appell (born March 24, 1922, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) worked as an arranger, producer, and musician in Philadelphia, in the 1950s.
Career
Appell (pronounced "apple") is associated mainly with the Cameo-Parkway record label, in the history of which he played a substantial part. He started working as an arranger for several United States Navy big bands in the mid-1940s during his service in World War II, including Jimmie Lunceford's black orchestra. He later arranged for dance orchestras, including Benny Carter and Earl "Fatha" Hines. He recorded for a while on Decca Records as the Dave Appell Four, until Paul Cohen of Decca suggested he change the group name to the Applejacks. Appell also became a publisher, joining ASCAP in 1955, collaborating with Max Freedman.
He appeared prominently in the 1956 Alan Freed film Don't Knock the Rock, and worked for a while as the studio band and music director on the Ernie Kovacs TV and radio shows in Philadelphia. Next Appell and the Applejacks were playing in Las Vegas, but they soon began to pine for their hometown and returned to Philadelphia, where they started working for Cameo Records, a label founded by Kal Mann and Bernie Lowe.
Appell became a jack-of-all-trades at Cameo, doing background vocals, session work as a guitarist, engineering, arranging, and producing. The first hit artist on the Cameo label was Charlie Gracie, the singing guitarist who hit Number One nationally with "Butterfly." Appell and his band backed Gracie on that million-seller in 1957, and on the singer's subsequent hits, "Fabulous" and "Ninety-Nine Ways" and "Wanderin' Eyes." In 1958 Appell and his group backed John Zacherle on his Top 10 novelty hit "Dinner With Drac."
In the summer of 1958, Appell got an idea for a song from the Philadelphia String Band of a marching-type song with a dance beat. He wrote an instrumental song called "The Mexican Hat Rock," a jumped-up version of the old "Mexican Hat Dance," that he had his studio band record. The song was released under their own name on Cameo that fall and became a big dance hit on American Bandstand, reaching # 16 on the charts. The Applejacks also charted with "Rocka-Conga" (# 38 ) later in the year.
Appell went on to become the leader of Cameo-Parkway's house band, backing such artists as Chubby Checker, Bobby Rydell, The Dovells, Dee Dee Sharp, and The Orlons. Their records Appell also arranged and, in many cases, produced, and even co-wrote with Kal Mann, like "The Twist," "Let's Twist Again," "Bristol Stomp," "Mashed Potato Time," and "South Street." These were the years of the twist and other dance crazes, in the launching of which Appell played a vital role. Appell left Cameo in 1964.
In the 1970s he had success with his productions for Tony Orlando and Dawn, including the # 1 hits "Knock Three Times" (1970) and "Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree" (1973), on Bell Records in New York. Appell's co-producer was Hank Medress, who had been a founding member of The Tokens in 1956, and also sang in the reformed Tokens of "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" fame.
Kurz-Bio: Der Musiker, Bandleader, Arrangeur, Songwriter und Produzent Dave Appell wurde am 24 März 1922 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, als David Appell geboren und verstarb am 18 November 2014 in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. Er war unter anderem Gründer und Leader der Applejacks.
Die Singles: LONDON 07 50....45-30107....THE DAVE APPELL TRIO..Brother Bill/Sugar Baby
TOP TUNE ?? ??….473….BILL DAVIES DIXIELAND BAND DAVE APPELL QUARTET..(Down by the) Coll Blue Sea/474….BILL DAVIES DIXIELAND BAND..Horn Aplenty
DECCA 07 54....9-29218....THE APPLEJACKS Featuring Dave Appell..Smarter (45-86506)/My Heart Will Wait For You (45-86503)
12 54....9-29330....THE APPLEJACKS Featuring Dave Appell..Sweet Patootie Pie (45-86504)/Reunion (45-86505)
TONE-CRAFT ?? 55....200....DAVE APPELL and his "APPELL - JACKS"..Honey Bunch (A 1)/Ookey Ook (A 2)
?? 55....202X45....DAVE APPELL and his "Appell-Jacks"..Where Is My Love (A-5X45)/Alrighty (A-6X45)
PRESIDENT ?? 55....1005....DAVE APPELL And His Applejacks..Ring Around My Baby (P109)/The Love Express (P110)
12 55....1006....DAVE APPELL and his Applejacks..Teenage Meeting (Gonna rock it up right) (P111)/Ooh, Baby, Ooh (P112)
04 56....1011....DAVE APPELL AND HIS APPLEJACKS..The Rock And Roll Story (P 123)/Rainbow Of Love (P 124)
?? 57....1013....BY DAVE APPELL and his APPLEJACKS..Country Dance (P 127)/Applejack (P 128)
CAMEO 08 57....110-A....DAVE APPELL AND THE APPLEJACKS..Love In The Jungle (H9-OW-6890)/-B….Chitter Chatter Baby (H9-OW-6891)
03 58....C132-A....DAVE APPELL and the APPLEJACKS..No Name Theme/-B….Dinner With Drac (Background Theme) 05 58....C 138-A....DAVE APPELL and the APPLEJACKS..Moonlight Serenade/-B….Walk On
09 58....C-149-A....THE APPLEJACKS..Sophisticated Swing/-B….The Mexican Hat Rock
09 58....C-149-B....THE APPLEJACKS..The Mexican Hat Rock/-C….Stop! Red Light
11 58....C 155 A....APPLEJACKS..Rock A-Tonga (JO9W-2282)/ B….Am I Blue (JO9W-2283)
12 58....C 1 5 5 - A....APPLEJACKS..Rocka-Conga/ - B….Am I Blue…….nur Titel-Korrektur 02 59....C-158-A....THE APPLEJACKS..Bunny Hop (K8OW-1824)/-B….Night Train Stroll (K8OW-1825)
10 59....C-170-A....THE APPLEJACKS..Love Scene/-B….Circle Dance
05 60....C-177 A....THE APPLEJACKS..Theme From "The Untouchables"/ B…."Memories" – Are Made Of This –
11 60....C184A....DAVE APPELL and his ORCHESTRA..Theme From The Young Ones/B….September Song
10 61....C-203-A....THE APPLEJACKS..Mexican Hat Twist/-B….Cherry Valley
10 61....C-203-A....THE APPLEJACKS..Mexican Hat Twist/-C….Let's Continental
12 61....C-207-A....DAVE APPELL and his ORCHESTRA..Happy Jose/-B….Noivous
07 62....C-222-A....THE APPLEJACKS..Struttin' In The Summertime/-B….Any Time
03 63....C-248-A....DAVE APPELL AND THE APPLEJACKS..Back In Sixty Seconds/-B….Hippies Waltz
?? 63....C-283-A....THE APPLEJACKS..Hot Toddy/-B….Dance Of The Hours
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