JIM LOWE
Jim Lowe (born May 7, 1927) is an American singer-songwriter, best known for his 1956 number-one hit song, “Green Door”. He also served as a disc jockey and radio host and personality, and has been considered an expert on the popular music of the 1940s and 1950s. (More from Wikipedia)
Holly Ramos first got into the music scene when she met Jesse Malin in high school. They started a “party” (rave?) together in 1991 called GREENDOOR (where Ramos was the DJ) that persisted sporadically through the end of the 1990’s. “Green Door” is the name of a fun 1956 hit song by Jim Lowe about a mysterious nightclub where the singer could never gain admittance; I have a copy of the song on one of the Born Bad CD’s. However, the name was probably taken from one of the first high-profile pornographic movies (from 1972), Behind the Green Door – whose name was taken from the song – that starred then-unknown Marilyn Chambers (the famous “Ivory Snow” porn queen).
(June 2013/2)
