Jewel Akens
Biography
Jewel Akens (12 September 1933, Houston, Texas - 1 March 2013, Inglewood, California) was an American singer and record producer.
He first recorded with Eddie Daniels as Jewel and Eddie on the Silver Records label in 1960. A number of his recordings featured Eddie Cochran on guitar.
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He later went solo and recorded "The Birds And The Bees" in 1965, on the Era Records label. The single went to Number 3 in the Billboard Hot 100 chart that year, and Number 2 on the Cash Box chart. Across the Pond it reached Number 29 in the UK Singles Chart. But the follow-up, "Georgie Porgie" only reached Number 68. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
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