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Earl Grant - Jeder Tag geht zu Ende (1959) The End

GER Nr. 12 (01.1959) 16 Wochen Earl Grant (January 20, 1931 – June 10, 1970) was an American pianist, organist, and vocalist popular in the 1950s and 1960s. Grant was born in Idabel, Oklahoma. Though he would be known later for his keyboards and vocals, Grant also played trumpet and drums. Grant attended four music schools, eventually becoming a music teacher. He augmented his income by performing in clubs during his army service, throughout which he was stationed in Fort Bliss, Texas. Grant signed with Decca Records in 1957 and his first single "The End" reached number 7 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The album Ebb Tide (And Other Instrumental Favorites) sold over one million copies, gaining gold disc status. He recorded six more singles that made the charts, including "Swingin' Gently" (from Beyond the Reef), and six additional albums (on the Decca label) through 1968. He also recorded the album Yes Sirree! and the instrumental album Trade Winds, single-tracked on the Hammond organ and piano, featuring the love theme from the film El Cid and Chaplin's "Eternally". This album featured some realistic-sounding "tropical bird calls" produced by his electric organ. "House of Bamboo" was another big-selling single. Grant recorded 30 albums for Decca, mostly on the Brunswick label, a subsidiary of Decca. Several of his albums featured tenor saxophonist Plas Johnson. Grant also made a few appearances in films and on television, including Tender Is the Night (1962), Juke Box Rhythm (1959), It Takes a Thief (1969) and The Ed Sullivan Show (1960). Grant sang the title theme for the 1959 film Imitation of Life. He died instantly in a car accident in Lordsburg, New Mexico, at the age of 39 when the car he was driving ran off Interstate 10. He was driving from Los Angeles to an intended destination in Juarez, Mexico, for an appearance at the La Fiesta nightclub. His cousin's 17-year-old son, Roosevelt Woods III, was also killed in the accident. Earl Grant (* 20. Januar 1933 in Oklahoma City; † 11. Juni 1970 in Lordsburg) war ein US-amerikanischer Sänger, Pianist und Organist. Sein größter Hit war das Lied The End von 1958. Nach einem Studium am Konservatorium von Kansas City und an der University of Southern California spielte er in Clubs und erhielt schließlich einen Plattenvertrag. Mit The End (Platz 7) stieg im September 1958 erstmals eine Single Grants in die US-Charts. Sein 1961 erschienenes Album Ebb Tide erreichte ebenfalls Platz 7 und hielt sich 32 Wochen in den Billboard 200. Bis 1968 veröffentlichte Grant weitere Singles, die ebenfalls die Hot 100 erreichten. Grants Easy-Listening-Musik wurde und wird gelegentlich in Filmen verwendet. 1959 sang er das Titellied für den Film Solange es Menschen gibt von Douglas Sirk. Earl Grant starb 1970, als er von Los Angeles nach Juarez in Mexiko unterwegs war und mit seinem Rolls-Royce in einer Kurve von der Straße (Interstate 10) abkam und sich dabei überschlug. Zusammen mit ihm kam auch der 17-jährige Roosevelt Woods, Jr., der Sohn von Grants Cousin, ums Leben.