Real name: Donald Howard Koplow

b.: May 11, 1935 (Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.)
Singer from Cleveland, Ohio, who as an 18-year-old in 1952 recorded the ballad "Oh Happy Day" in his garage. The song was a surprise hit and became a prototype for the teen/garage genre.
His performance name consisted of simply dropping his "Koplow" surname.
Credits (usually for writing) that are either said surname alone (or misspellings thereof) or include the real surname always belong to this real name alias.