Robin Clark - Daddy Daddy / Love Has Come My Way 1961 Capito 4503

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"Daddy, Daddy (Gotta Get A Phone In My Room)"
Robin Clark was born as Sharon Ilo Hershiser on September 21, 1949,[4] on the campus of the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, where her parents, Charles Arthur "Charlie" Hershiser (born February 5, 1925 in Akron, Ohio; died December 23, 1999 in Foley, Alabama),[4][5] a political science major,[6] and his wife, Barbara A. Hines (born June 21, 1928),[4] were both students.[7][8] Clark is the younger sister of Charles Arthur "Chuck" Hershiser, Jr. (born April 26, 1948),[4] and the granddaughter of pioneer television hostess and cook Caroline Ilo Burchfield Hines Salyer (born in Loudon, Tennessee on February 17, 1902; died 1995 in Largo, Florida), who (as Ilo Salyer) hosted a 30 minute program Memo from Ilo five days a week on WJHL-TV in Johnson City, Tennessee from 1957 to 1966.[9][10][11] Salyer was also a noted whistler who toured the churches of East Tennessee imitating birds and accompanied by the piano.[12][13]

After his graduation from the University of Alabama in 1951,[6] Charles Hershiser and his wife and two children moved to Charlotte, North Carolina, where Charles was a commercial agent for the Mason and Dixon Lines.[14] By August 1953, the Hershiser family had relocated to Nashville,[15] and by 1957 Charles had been promoted to District Sales Manager of the Mason & Dixon Lines, and the family had relocated to the Nashville suburb of Donelson.[16]

After attending high school in Donelson, Clark attended the Putnam County Senior High School (as Ilo Hershiser) in Cookeville, Tennessee, graduating in 1967.[17] After graduation, Clark matriculated to the Tennessee Technological University in Cookeville,[18] where she was both an honor student and a work scholar, and where she completed a BS in Food and Nutrition in 1971. Soon after graduation, Clark enrolled in the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where she graduated with a MS in Dietitian, Food and Nutrition in 1972.
Musical career

By the age of three, Clark (as Ilo Hershiser) had appeared as a dancer on television, and by August 1953 was scheduled to appear on television in Birmingham, Alabama and Atlanta, Georgia.[15] In a January 1961 interview, Clark indicated that she had had no formal voice lessons, but had been singing since the age of four, although she had studied dancing under Nashville choreographer Gene Nash, who also worked with singer Eddy Arnold.[19] According to Barbara Hershiser, Nash recommended Ilo to Arnold, who in turn recommended her to his manager, Dick Linke,[20] who signed her to a contract and changed her professional name to Robin Clark,[19] with Clark being the family name of one of her maternal great great grandfathers, Ira Napoleon Clark.

By November 1960 Clark has been signed to Capitol Records and had recorded "The Butterfly Tree" written by Edmonton songwriter Harvey D. Judd[21][22] in Nashville.
"Daddy, Daddy (Gotta Get A Phone In My Room)"

On January 9, 1961, Capitol Records released Clark's debut single, "Daddy, Daddy (Gotta Get A Phone In My Room)". This novelty song was written by orchestra leader and composer Bob Davie, his wife Mary Davie, and singer Bette Anne Steele,[23][24] who originally recorded and released it (as Betsy Brye) in 1959 (Canadian-American Records CAN AM 106;[25] UK: Columbia Records Recording 45-DB 4350). The Jordanaires provided backing vocals for the song.[26] On the flipside, Clark recorded "Love Has Come My Way" that was composed by Don Gibson.[27]

Clark appeared on Eddy Arnold's Today on the Farm program on NBC-TV on Saturday, January 14, 1961,[28] Both songs were rated 3 stars in Billboard magazine on January 16,[27] with "Daddy, Daddy" picked to be a hit on January 30,[29] and being played extensively on radio stations in Nashville,[30] where the flipside "Love Has Come My Way" debuted at #34 on radio WKDA.[31]

"Daddy, Daddy" was #1 on Radio station WHYN in Springfield, Massachusetts on March 4, 1961,[32] and also charted locally in Worcester (#2 on WORC);[33] Syracuse (#5 on WOLF);[34] Boston (#5 on WHIL);[35][36] Hartford (#8 on WDRC);[37] and Louisville (#13 on WKLO).[38] After Clark appeared on both the Bob Clayton and Ray Doey shows on Boston's WHDH-TV channel 5 to promote "Daddy, Daddy" in early March 1961,[39] "Daddy, Daddy" "bubbled under" at #120 on the Billboard Hot 100 on March 13, 1961.[40]
Other singles



On February 3, 1973, Clark married Michael Larry "Mike" Tefft (born July 19, 1949; died October 2013) in Cookeville in Putnam County, Tennessee, and subsequently had three children: Justin M. Tefft (born about 1974), Babs M. Tefft Koch (born about 1977), and Clarke M. Tefft (born 1981).