Dalton, Jack

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Origin: Erieau, Ontario, 🇨🇦
Biography:

Jack Dalton was born in Erieau which is south of Chatham, Ontario. At a young age Dan joined two of his four brothers – Jack and Wally Dalton to form the Dalton Boys. They gained popularity performing at concerts and playing nightclubs such as Philadelphia’s Latin Quarter, New Orleans’ Playboy Club, and New York’s Bitter End. They released several singles on Coral Records in the US, and appeared on several national TV shows such as ABC’s ‘Hootenanny’, and ‘The Mike Douglas Show.’ Dan Dalton left the group in 1963 to join his girlfriend (and later wife) Lois Fletcher in Randy Sparks’ New Christy Minstrels farm-group The Back Porch Majority. Jack Dalton would find a new writing partner in Gary Montgomery. The pair signed with Motown Records’ V.I.P. imprint as The Dalton Boys where they released several more singles that did not perform well effectively ending The Dalton Boys. Jack Dalton and Montgomery moved to the West Coast and became staff writers for White Whale Records, Robbins Fiest and Miller, and also wrote songs for The Turtles, The Outsiders, Spiral Starecase, and April And Nino among others. In 1967 the duo joined the California based pop act Colours. In the 1970s Jack released several solo singles and eventually settled in Detroit where he started a jingle company with songwriter/producer Jeffrey Parsons.
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