1. Ronald Eugene Dove was born on September 7,1935 and is an American pop and country music singer who had a string of hit pop records in the mid to late 1960s and several country chart records in the 1970s and 1980s.
15 Facts About Ronnie Dove
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Ronnie Dove, the only son of Fairfax County, Virginia police sergeant Paul S Dove and his first wife, Catherine Pearl nee Smith Dove Rusk, was born in Herndon, Virginia, United States, his older sister is Marjorie L Forrester.
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Ronnie Dove formed a group, The Belltones, and they played Baltimore and the East Coast for four years.
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Ronnie Dove went solo and signed with Diamond Records in 1964.
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Ronnie Dove's name was featured many times in both Billboard and Cashbox awards in 1965.
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Ronnie Dove continued to record for Diamond until it was sold in 1970 to Aubrey Mayhew's Certron Records.
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Ronnie Dove opened his own club in Baltimore, and his fans were able to see him perform through the 1980s.
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Ronnie Dove briefly revived the Diamond record label in 1987 to release a couple of singles and an album.
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Ronnie Dove quit show business in 1989 to care for his ailing mother.
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Ronnie Dove continued to perform, mostly on the East Coast, and nationwide.
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In 2018, Ronnie Dove Music reissued his 1967 album Cry album digitally, sourced from newly available tapes.
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Ronnie Dove retired from performing in 2023, performing his final show on May 14th.
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Ronnie Dove has appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show, American Bandstand, Where the Action Is, The Mike Douglas Show, The Merv Griffin Show, The Lloyd Thaxton Show, The Bob Braun Show, That Nashville Music, Nashville Now, and several other local and national television shows.
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The Ronnie Dove Show aired on several stations throughout the East coast in 1966.
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Ronnie Dove sells DVDs of the shows on his website as well as at some personal appearances.