Joan Weber
| Joan Weber | |
|---|---|
| Born |
December 12, 1935 Paulsboro, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Died | May 13, 1981 (aged 45) Ancora, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Genres | Traditional Pop |
| Years active | 1950s |
Joan Weber (December 12, 1935 — May 13, 1981) was an American popular music singer.
Weber was raised in Paulsboro, New Jersey and married to a young bandleader. She was pregnant in 1954 when she was introduced to Eddie Joy, a manager, who in turn introduced her to Charles Randolph Grean, an A&R worker for RCA and Dot Records in New York.
Grean gave a demo of Weber's singing a song called "Marionette" to Mitch Miller, the head of artists and repertoire at Columbia Records. Miller took a song entitled "Let Me Go, Devil" and had it rewritten by Jenny Lou Carson and Al Hill as "Let Me Go, Lover!" for Weber, who recorded it on the Columbia label (with "Marionette" as the B-side). The song was performed on the television show, Studio One and caught the public's fancy, reaching #1 in the United States and #16 in the United Kingdom in 1955. It sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc. "Let Me Go, Lover!" ascended to #1 on the Billboard Most Played by Jockeys chart on January 1, 1955, the date that the rock and roll era began, according to music historians such as Joel Whitburn.
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