#15: The Dawn Of Correction by the Spokesmen
City: London, ON
Radio Station: CFPL
Peak Month: October 1965
Peak Position in London ~ #4
Peak position in Vancouver ~ #43
Peak Position on Billboard Hot 100 ~ #36
YouTube: “The Dawn Of Correction”
Lyrics: “The Dawn Of Correction”
The Spokesmen were a folk trio consisting of David White, John Madara and Ray Gilmore. David White Tricker was born in Philadelphia in 1939. In 1955 he joined a doo-wop group named The Juvenaires. In 1957, White, John Madara and fellow bandmate Artie Singer cowrote a song called “Do The Bop”. When they introduced the song to Dick Clark, he suggested they change the title to “At The Hop”. The group changed the lyrics a bit and also changed their name to Danny & The Juniors. “At The Hop” a number-one hit for the first seven weeks of 1958. It later was featured in the 1973 film American Graffitti. A followup Top 20 hit for the group was “Rock and Roll is Here to Stay”, cowritten by David White. With Danny & the Juniors, White appeared in Patti Page’s TV show The Big Record, Merv Griffin’s Saturday Night Prom, The Pat Boone Chevy Showroom, and Dick Clark’s Saturday Night Beechnut Show.