Older readers will likely remember the 1955 No. 1 hit "Let Me Go Lover." Its 18-year-old singer was Joan Weber of Paulsboro, NJ. Weber gave birth to a baby girl not long after this song's success and did not continue her singing career. Sadly, she died in 1981 at age 45 in a mental facility. "Let Me Go Lover" appeared at the tail end of the saccharine, oh-so-white, goodie-two-shoes style of music that dominated radio and recording prior to the full, lusty emergence of rock and roll.
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