Googie Rene is one of those unjustly overlooked musical figures from the rock ānā roll years. Although he was the backbone of Class Records, Rene has remained something of an āundergroundā figure amongst the collector fraternity until the recent release of the āWham Bamā CD on Ace. He is the son of label owner/songwriter Leon Rene (1902-1982) and was called āGoogieā because that was the first word he ever uttered as an infant. By the time Googie graduated from Dorsey High School in the Los Angeles suburb of Baldwin Hills Read more on Last.fm