Canadian Rocker Jack Scott Passes At 83

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CANADIAN rock ’n’ roll pioneer JACK SCOTT, who placed four singles in the BILLBOARD Top 10 in the U.S., has died from complications after a heart attack, according to several posts on his FACEBOOK page. 

SCOTT’s biggest hits in the U.S. were “My True Love” (#3, 1958), “Goodbye Baby” (#8, 1958-59), “What In The World’s Come Over You” (#5, 1960) and “Burning Bridges” (#3, 1960). The first two of those were released on the CARLTON label and the other two on TOP RANK.

Another one of SCOTT’s hits, 1959’s “The Way I Walk,” only reached #35 in the U.S. but found favor with several bands of the punk-new wave era: it was covered by both THE CRAMPS and ROBERT GORDON.  SCOTT’s success was much greater in his native CANADA, where he was inducted into the CANADIAN SONGWRITERS HALL OF FAME in 2011. SCOTT was inducted into the MICHIGAN ROCK AND ROLL LEGENDS HALL OF FAME, in 2007.

SCOTT was born GIOVANNI DOMENICO SCAFONE JR.,on JANUARY 24TH, 1936, in WINDSOR, ONTARIO, across the border from DETROIT. He absorbed AMERICAN country music and early rock ’n’ roll and began performing after his mother gave him his first guitar.

The song which put him on the map was “My True Love.” He logged 19 chart singles in AMERICA into 1961, before the success began to fade, but he remained popular in his homeland and regained some success in the STATES when the ’50s rock ’n’ roll revival kicked in during the '70s.

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