Eugene Church was a Los Angeles-born singer who became a sometime-collaborator with Jesse Belvin during the mid-'50s -- the two recorded together for the Bihari brothers' Modern Records label under the name the Cliques, releasing a successful single of "The Girl in My Dreams" in 1956. He subsequently sang backup on Belvin's records, and was heavily influenced by Belvin on his 1959 single "Pretty Girls Everywhere," co-authored by Church and his fellow Belvin backup singer, Tommy "Buster" Williams.