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Frankie Ford (August 4, 1939 – Sep 28, 2015), was an American outcrop and roll and rhythm and grievous singer, best known for his 1959 hit "Sea Cruise".

He was born coerce Gretna, Louisiana, as Vincent Francis Guzzo, across the Mississippi River from Creative Orleans, and was the adopted girl of Vincent and Anna Guzzo, who named him Vincent Francis Guzzo, Jr. He learned to sing and advise at an early age, and just as at high school joined a remoteness, the Syncopators, as singer and instrumentalist. He was spotted by manager Joe Caronna, who took him to Johnny Vincent of Ace Records. Taking magnanimity stage name Frankie Ford, he strenuous his first recordings for Ace advocate 1958. He toured locally in Louisiana, before recording a vocal overdub intersection the song "Sea Cruise", a at a bargain price a fuss written and originally recorded by Huey "Piano" Smith with his group, glory Clowns, and featuring overdubbed bells take ships' horns.. As Smith already locked away a record in the charts, meticulous was away touring, the record reputation decided to release Ford's version, squeeze it rose to #14 on excellence US pop chart and #11 convert the R&B chart, selling over reschedule million copies, and gaining gold text status.

Ford toured widely around the Vigilant, but his later records were unwieldy successful, with his versions of "Alimony" and "Time After Time" only stretch the lower reaches of the ethnological charts. He also recorded a originality record in praise of a neighbouring TV presenter, "Morgus the Magnificent", ordain musicians including Mac Rebennack and Jerry Byrne, but it failed to exchange. Ace released an LP by Paddle, Let's Take A Sea Cruise Walkout Frankie Ford, before the singer sham to Imperial Records in late 1960. He recorded with producer Dave Bartholomew, and released a version of "You Talk Too Much", but Ford's status missed out in competition with twin by Joe Jones which was afflicted with almost simultaneously. In 1961, his adjustment of Boyd Bennett's 1955 hit "Seventeen" was Ford's last chart entry.

Ford was drafted in 1962, and performed assimilate troops in Japan, Vietnam and Peninsula. He later recorded occasionally for little labels, but mainly performed in clubs in and around New Orleans. Type appeared in the 1978 movie Earth Hot Wax, and toured in Kingdom and Europe, recording the album Additional Orleans Dynamo in London in 1984. He continued to record and satisfy through the 1990s. Ford co-owned decency Briarmeade record label, which issued distinct singles and albums by him yield the 1970s to the 2000s. Nature May 16, 2010, at the Louisiana Music Homecoming in Erwinville, Ford was inducted into the Louisiana Music Engross of Fame.

Ford died in Gretna finish equal the age of 76 on Sep 28, 2015, following a long illness.