Steve Alaimo was an American teen idol pop singer in the early 1960s who later became record producer and label owner, but he is perhaps best known for hosting and co-producing Dick Clark's Where the Action Is in the late 1960s.
Alaimo landed his first major record deal with Checker Records, a subsidiary of Chess Records, in 1961. There, he struck a minor amount of gold in 1963 with his recording of Muscle Shoals music legend Arthur Alexander's "Everyday I Have to Cry Some", peaking at 46 on the Billboard Charts. Later that year, Alaimo left Checker for Imperial Records, and ABC Records, but the fame of his recording career would soon be eclipsed by his work with Clark and his future as a record label producer and executive.
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