Posted on Sat, May. 10, 2008
Jerry Wallace, 79, who shot to fame in the late 1950s with a pair of hit songs including
"Primrose Lane," died Monday in Victorville, Calif.
Mr. Wallace began recording in 1951 and scored his first major hit in 1958 with the release of
"How the Time Flies," followed a year later with the upbeat
"Primrose
Lane
," which sold more than a million copies. Mr. Wallace effectively retired in the late 1970s.
According to the Hit Parade Hall of Fame, he scored more than 45 chart successes on both the pop and country-music hit parades.
- AP
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