Derek

The first artist ever to be billed simply as "Derek" was a stand-in for the real singer of a number 11 hit on the Bang label, entitled "Cinnamon." The real Derek (real name Derek Cymbal) was the brother of Johnny Cymbal, a Scottish-born singer and songwriter who had a modest non-hit with the death song "The Water Was Red," and then a huge hit two years later with "Mr. Bass Man," followed by a pair of modest successes with "Teenage Heaven" (a play on an old country novelty tune called "Hillbilly Heaven") and "Dum Dum Dee Dum" (a play on the tune of the wedding march). By the mi...