Dale Wright (singer)

{{short description|American singer}}

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Dale Wright (born Harlan Dale Riffe; February 4, 1938 – April 15, 2007)Joel Whitburn, The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits. 7th edn, 2000 was an American rock and roll singer.

Wright was born in Middletown, Ohio. He started his career as a disc jockey in Dayton, Ohio who signed to Fraternity Records after playing a song he'd written on the air.Richie Unterberger, [{{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p27180|pure_url=yes}} Biography]. Allmusic. He recorded a sizable body of work for Fraternity in the late 1950s, some of it with backing band The Rock-Its, and hit the Billboard Hot 100 twice in 1958 with the singles "She's Neat" (#38) and "Don't Do it" (#77).[{{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p27180|pure_url=yes}} Billboard Singles], Allmusic.com By the early 1960s he had been dropped from Fraternity but continued recording for smaller labels well into the decade.

After his success as a singer waned, Wright worked for WBLG-TV (now WTVQ-TV) and WBLG radio in Lexington, Kentucky through the early 1970s. Afterwards, Wright hosted a talk show on WNVL in Nicholasville, Kentucky for 20 years before becoming program director at sister station WCKU.{{cite web|author1=Tom Carter|title=Soul, Rap to be focus of new area FM station|url=http://www.lkyradio.com/wcku.htm|website=lkyradio.com|accessdate=3 March 2015|date=August 28, 1988}} He died in Lexington, Kentucky on April 15, 2007.{{cite web|url=https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VSSH-LPD|title=Person Details for Harlan D Riffe, "United States Social Security Death Index" — FamilySearch.org|work=familysearch.org}}