Dale Wright (singer)

Dale Wright (born Harlan Dale Riffe; February 4, 1938 – April 15, 2007)^[1] was an American rock and roll singer and a radio and TV personality.

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.^[2] 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).^[3] 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 (now WLXG) 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.^[4] He died in Lexington, Kentucky on April 15, 2007.^[5]