Cathy Carroll

Cathy Carroll, born December 26th, 1939 as Carolyn Stern, was an American singer and first recorded for the Triodex label in 1961 where members of the Earls and the 4 Evers sang backup. Her single "Jimmy Love" reached #11 on the WLS Chicago survey. Next came Warner Brothers where she recorded "Poor Little Puppet," her only Hot 100 entry, which struggled to climb the Hot 100 stopping at No. 91. Her powerful voice was well suited to her revival of Johnny Ray's "Cry" and she persevered until the mid 1960s with sides cut for the Philips, Cheer, Musicor and Dot labels. Her music was always pure high school pop and amongst her songs was an answer version to Brian Hyland's "Ginny Come Lately" and the original version of "The Young Ones," which topped the charts in the UK for Cliff Richard. His own version was issued on the Big Top label and both were reviewed at the same time. Cathy was portrayed as the "typical American girl" and went on a sponsored tour of 100 radio stations. In the 2000s the Cheer label issued a 24 track CD of her complete works. She retired from music in the 1970's to raise her two children, Ron Scott, born in 1968 and Jennifer, born in 1976.