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Carol Connors (birth advert Annette Kleinbard) showtime met Carroll Shelby after she had smashed the front end of her thence boyfriend’s air conditioning Bristol car, she went to uncovering Shelby to run across if he could position a Cobra front end on an air conditioning back.

“So at that topographic point I am inwards his office…I said ‘Mr. Shelby…is at that topographic point whatever agency you lot tin hand the sack position a Cobra front end on a Bristol back?’ Well he became hysterical. He only couldn’t halt laughing,” remembers Connors.

“He looked at me as well as said, ‘you know petty girl, if you lot write a vocal nearly my auto as well as it goes to publish one, I’ll hand you lot one’…and the residuum was history,” she added.

It was an older Cobra that hadn't sold correct away, as well as since a newer twelvemonth model was heading to dealerships, Shelby had no problem giving away the previous twelvemonth car. She wrecked it on Laurel Canyon road.

http://kearth101.cbslocal.com/2012/05/15/singer-carol-connors-remembers-auto-legend-carroll-shelby/
http://www.davemacdonald.net/gallery/closeups/cobra63watkinsglen.htm
Carroll Shelby: The Authorized Biography By Rinsey Mills

She is maybe best known equally the Pb vocalist on the Teddy Bears' single, "To Know Him Is To Love Him", which was written yesteryear her bandmate Phil Spector. After their initial hit, the trio disbanded because of the failure of their follow-up singles, as well as the fact that Spector preferred working behind the scenes to performing.

She co-wrote (with Ayn Robbins as well as Bill Conti) "Gonna Fly Now", the subject vocal from the celluloid Rocky, which earned her an Academy Award nomination.

As Connors has said, “Hey Little Cobra” got her a Cobra, but the subject from Rocky got her a menage inwards Beverly Hills.

She has been nominated twice for an Academy Award for Best Original Song, equally good equally nominated for 5 Emmys, i Grammy as well as 2 Golden Globes.

Her beaus as well as escorts began amongst Elvis, at historic menstruation 18... thence after inwards life - Joe Namath, Burt Bacharach, L.A. Rams full general director Don Klosterman, as well as Arnold Schwarzenegger

Odd but true, she composed 3 songs for the Disney moving-picture exhibit The Rescuers, as well as testified at the OJ trial.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Connors_(singer)
http://people.com/archive/songwriter-carol-connors-is-gonna-keep-on-flying-with-a-little-help-from-her-friends-vol-12-no-5/

Hey Little Cobra was made pop yesteryear the Rip Chords, who got their big suspension yesteryear auditioning for Columbia Records as well as Terry Melcher. His presence at Columbia was due to his mom, Doris Day.

The guitarist for their showtime striking was Glen Campbell.

Their 2d striking was made amongst Bruce Johnston who after went on to instruct a Beach Boy, as well as Melcher went on to arrive at Kokomo

The co-founder of the Rip Chords had to leave, he was finished amongst college, as well as going into a religious career resulted inwards the church building telling him it was either quit stone as well as roll, or quit the church. So, he quit rock.

Terry Melcher thence replaced him inwards the Rip Chords.... only inwards fourth dimension to tape Hey Little Cobra

Prior to this event, Melcher did non regard himself a vocal talent (although vocally he had already experimented somewhat at Columbia). But equally it turned out, his Pb vocal on “Hey Little Cobra” was outstanding.

So Melcher the producer, writer, as well as arranger, had besides instruct Melcher, the singer. It would non live on an exaggeration to state that Terry Melcher was to the Rip Chords what Brian Wilson was to the Beach Boys. But dissimilar Brian, Terry was singing for a grouping of which he was non a member. As a consequence, he never received his well-deserved recognition equally a vocalist (at to the lowest degree non until recently). The same is truthful for Bruce Johnston, who does the falsetto on “Hey Little Cobra.” The vocal peaked at #4 nationally inwards early on 1964.

After having been gone from the Rip Chords for 3 months, the Bishop of his church building overturned the onetime ruling of church building officials that had barred Ernie Bringas from recording. Free to render to the group, provided he bound my interest to recording as well as refrain from touring amongst the grouping (as this mightiness detract from his theological studies).

 With that understanding, he ended my three-month absence from the group.

 Incidentally, 4 of those 33 songs recorded yesteryear the Rip Chords (“’40 Ford Time,” “Bunny Hill,” “Big Wednesday,” as well as “Wiameah Bay”) were instrumentals — instrumentals that were recorded yesteryear the legendary Wrecking Crew.

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