About Joanie Sommers
Joanie Sommers is an American singer and actress. Her career has focused on jazz, standards and popular song. Early in her career she was billed as "the Voice of the Sixties"; she also collaborated with prominent arrangers, songwriters and producers. Her most recognized song is "Johnny Get Angry", which although atypical of her work became a popular success. In 1951, at the age of ten, she won an amateur talent contest on a Buffalo television program by singing the Hank Williams song, "Your Cheating Heart". In 1955, her family relocated to the Venice neighborhood of Los Angeles, where she won honors as a vocalist with her high school band at Venice High School. He arranged for a demo record to be cut and presented it to Warner Bros.
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