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Vernon Green

 
Artist: Vernon Green
  • Active: '50s
  • Genres: Rhythm & Blues
  • Instrument: Vocals
  • Representative Albums: "Golden Classics," "Speedin'," "Vernon Green & the Medallions"
  • Representative Songs: "The Letter," "Speedin'," "The Telegram"

Biography

This middle- to late-'50s vocal group on Dootone is best known for the songs "The Letter," "Edna," and "Buick '59." The group had two distinct sides to its work, the romantic ballads that were sung straight, in almost agonizing purity, and the faster rocking numbers, which were partly tongue-in-cheek. ~ Bruce Eder, All Music Guide
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Vernon Green (May 1, 1937 – December 24, 2000) was leader of the rhythm and blues band The Medallions. He wrote the 1954 song "The Letter" which contained the nonsense lyric, "the puppetutes of love," which was later picked up by Steve Miller as "the Pompatus of love." According to an interview with Green, puppetutes was "A term I coined to mean a secret paper-doll fantasy figure [thus puppet], who would be my everything and bear my children." (See the source article on The Straight Dope web site.)

Green died from a stroke in Los Angeles.

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