Editing Gale Storm (section)

==Recording artist==
[[File:Gale Storm Billy Vaughn The Gale Storm Show 1958.JPG|thumb|180px|Storm with [[Billy Vaughn]].  The two wrote "You're My Baby Doll" and performed it on Storm's television show in 1958.]]
In [[Gallatin, Tennessee|Gallatin]], [[Tennessee]], in November 1954, a 10-year-old girl, Linda Wood, was watching Storm on a Sunday night [[television]] variety show, [[NBC]]'s ''[[Colgate Comedy Hour]]'', hosted by [[Gordon MacRae]], singing one of the popular songs of the day. Linda's father asked her who was singing and was told it was Gale Storm from ''My Little Margie''. Linda's father [[Randy Wood (record producer)|Randy Wood]] was president of [[Dot Records]], and he liked Storm so much that he called to sign her before the end of the television show. Her first record, "[[I Hear You Knockin']]", a [[Cover version|cover]] of a [[rhythm and blues]] hit by [[Smiley Lewis]], sold over a million copies.<ref name="The Book of Golden Discs">{{cite book| first=Joseph| last=Murrells| year=1978| title=The Book of Golden Discs|edition=2nd|publisher=Barrie and Jenkins Ltd|location=London, UK|page=[https://archive.org/details/bookofgoldendisc00murr/page/77 77]|isbn=0-214-20512-6|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/bookofgoldendisc00murr/page/77}}</ref>

The follow-up was a two-sided hit, with Storm covering [[Dean Martin]]'s "[[Memories Are Made of This]]" backed with her cover of [[Gloria Mann]]'s "[[Teen Age Prayer]]". That was followed by a hit cover of [[Frankie Lymon]]'s "[[Why Do Fools Fall in Love (song)|Why Do Fools Fall in Love]]". Storm's subsequent record sales began to slide, but soon rebounded with a cover of fellow [[Dot Records]] recording artist [[Bonnie Guitar]]'s haunting ballad "[[Dark Moon (song)|Dark Moon]]" that went to No. 4 on the [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]].{{citation needed|date=December 2015}} Storm had several other hits, headlined in [[Las Vegas, Nevada|Las Vegas]] and appeared in numerous stage plays. Storm recorded for five years with Dot Records,  then gave up recording because of her husband's concerns with the time she had to devote to that career.{{citation needed|date=December 2015}}