{"id":136535,"date":"2025-01-04T02:26:37","date_gmt":"2025-01-04T02:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/04\/gimme-little-sign-oogum-boogum-song-singer-was-83\/"},"modified":"2025-01-04T02:26:38","modified_gmt":"2025-01-04T02:26:38","slug":"gimme-little-sign-oogum-boogum-song-singer-was-83","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/04\/gimme-little-sign-oogum-boogum-song-singer-was-83\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Gimme Little Sign&#8217; &#038; &#8216;Oogum Boogum Song&#8217; Singer Was 83"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/brenton-wood\/\" id=\"auto-tag_brenton-wood\" data-tag=\"brenton-wood\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brenton Wood<\/a>, the soul singer who sang 1967\u2019s catchy \u201cOogum Boogum Song\u201d and adopted it with the Top 10 hit \u201cGimme Little Sign,\u201d died Friday at his residence in Moreno Valley, CA. He was 83.   <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tHis managers Isabel and Manny Gallegos<strong> <\/strong>confirmed the information to a number of media shops, saying Wood died peacefully in his sleep.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tBorn Alfred Smith on July 26, 1941, in Shreveport, LA, Wood was raised in San Pedro simply south of Los Angeles. He started singing and enjoying piano at an early age at signed with Brent Records and later Wand Records however didn\u2019t produce a success for both. He then switched to Double Shot Records in Hollywood, the place he recorded \u201cThe Oogum Boogum Song.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tA borderline-novelty tune fueled by Wood\u2019s candy falsetto and piano hook, the monitor went Top 10 at L.A.\u2019s main Top 40 station KHJ-AM and dented the nationwide Top 40 in the course of the Summer of Love. He would carry out it on Dick Clark\u2019s <em>American Bandstand, <\/em>however his signature tune can be its follow-up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cGimme Little Sign\u201d was a slow-building soul masterclass. Better identified by its sung refrain lyric \u201cjust gimme some kind of sign, girl,\u201d the midtempo monitor crashed the Billboard Hot 100 in August 1967 and peaked at No. 9 just a few weeks later. It hit the UK singles chart 57 years in the past this week, and reached No. 8 after Wood carried out it on the favored TV music collection <em>Top of the Pops. <\/em>It was among the many few Sixties pop singles to not point out the precise title in its lyrics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tWatch the official lyric video for the tune right here and one for \u201cThe Oogum Boogum Song\u201d under:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"gI5wjpRxKzg\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Brenton Wood - Gimme Little Sign (Official Lyric Video) from The Very Best Of\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gI5wjpRxKzg?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tBut \u201cGimme Little Sign\u201d would mark Wood\u2019s profession zenith. He cracked the Billboard Top 40 early 1968 with \u201cBaby You Got It\u201d and dented the Hot 100 later that yr with \u201cLovey Dovey Kinda Lovin\u2019.\u201d Wood\u2019s sole charting album, 1967\u2019s <em>Oogum Boogum<\/em>, peaked at No. 187 in 1967.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tHe went on to have a minor R&amp;B hit with \u201cSome Got It, Some Don\u2019t\u201d in 1968 and would launch quite a lot of singles into the late Seventies. \u201cCome Softly to Me\u201d was his solely different charting tune, reaching No. 97 on Billboard\u2019s R&amp;B tally in 1978.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tWood additionally appeared within the 1969 film <em>Popdown.<\/em> Information on survivors or a memorial have been incomplete.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tHere\u2019s the official lyric video for \u201cThe Oogum Boogum Song\u201d:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"JbZ413-78ok\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Oogum Boogum Song (Official Lyric Video) - Brenton Wood from The Very Best Of\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JbZ413-78ok?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<strong>DEADLINE RELATED VIDEO:<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Brenton Wood, the soul singer who sang 1967\u2019s catchy \u201cOogum Boogum Song\u201d and adopted it with the Top 10 hit \u201cGimme Little Sign,\u201d died Friday at his residence in Moreno Valley, CA. He was 83. His managers Isabel and Manny Gallegos confirmed the information to a number of media shops, saying Wood died peacefully [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":136539,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[7947,3268,7946,7010,1944,1303],"class_list":{"0":"post-136535","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrity-gossip","8":"tag-boogum","9":"tag-gimme","10":"tag-oogum","11":"tag-sign","12":"tag-singer","13":"tag-song"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}