LC control no. | n 91078281 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Wells, Cory |
Variant(s) | Lewandowski, Emil |
See also | Corporate body: Three Dog Night (Musical group) |
Located | Malibu (Calif.) |
Birth date | 1941-02-02 |
Death date | 2015-10-20 |
Place of birth | Buffalo (N.Y.) |
Place of death | Dunkirk (N.Y.) |
Field of activity | Rock music Singing |
Affiliation | Three Dog Night (Musical group) Vibratos Enemys (Musical group) |
Profession or occupation | Singers Rock musicians |
Found in | Touch me [SR] p1978: label (Cory Wells) Los Angeles times WWW site, viewed Oct. 22, 2015 (in obituary dated Oct. 21, 2015: Cory Wells, a founding member of the vocal trio behind Three Dog Night, which had nearly two dozen top hits in the late 1960s and 1970s, died Tuesday [Oct. 20, 2015] in Dunkirk, N.Y., at 74; singer; rocker; the group formed in 1968 when co-founder Danny Hutton and Wells met on tour with Sonny and Cher; born Emil Lewandowski in Buffalo, N.Y., on Feb. 2, 1941; in the early 1960s he moved to California with the Vibratos, which evolved into Cory Wells and the Enemys; released his first solo album in 1978; lived in Malibu for many years until his home was destroyed in the 1994 fire that swept through the area) |
Associated language | eng |