Real name: John Daka

Effective period / Period of releases: 1965

Coast guardsman QM2 John Daka sailed with a reserve officer during an Ocean Station patrol in the North Atlantic who heard John sing in a talent show. He arranged for John to meet with the recording company, but never told John details during the month before John was discharged from the Coast Guard on Staten Island. In July 1965, a limo just showed up on the pier to drive Daka to the recording studio where he passed Leslie Gore who exiting while John was entering. He was escorted to the recording booth and told to sing a song by a man smoking a stogie. A flustered Daka said he wasn't prepared; so the man with the stogie told him to sing the National Anthem. The Man with the stogie was impressed and offered Daka a contract that obviously did not include an advance or details about proceeds from any sales. John was told to let his hair grow and made the Goin' Lovin' With You record. The record sold and was on the radio, but John wasn't given a cent to move out of a flop house. There were photographs taken in Central Park for a cover of a future album, but John was called home to care for his dying mother and asked to be released from his contract. The company was more interested in promoting John Sebastian and the Lovin' Spoonful, John surmised. So Jeremiah is really John Daka.