Jimmy Clanton
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Jimmy Clanton, known as the "swamp pop R&B teenage idol"[1], and his band recorded a hit song "Just A Dream" which Clanton had written in 1958 for the Ace Records label. It reached number four on the Billboard charts and sold over a million copies. Clanton performed on Dick Clark's American Bandstand. He toured with popular artists like Fats Domino, Jerry Lee Lewis and The Platters.[2]
[edit] History
Clanton was born September 2, 1940 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and formed his first band in 1956 while in high school.
One of the few white singers to come out of the New Orleans R&B/rock & roll sound, he rode the crest of the popular teen music wave in the 1950s and '60s with such songs as 'Just a Dream' and 'Venus in Blue Jeans'. He even continued to release hits after he was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1961 and served for two years. Clanton became a disc jockey in the 1970s and performed in an oldies revue, The Masters of Rock 'n' Roll, with Troy Shondell, Ray Peterson, and Ronnie Dove. He is reputed to have had a religious conversion in the 1980s. In the 1995 Jazz Fest in New Orleans, Clanton performed with Ray Charles, Chuck Berry, and Frankie "Sea Cruise" Ford.
Clanton starred in a rock 'n' roll movie produced by Alan Freed called Go Johnny Go, and later starred Teenage Millionaire.[3]
[edit] Notes
- ^ Jimmy Clanton Songs. Retrieved on 2006-11-24.
- ^ Jimmy Clanton. Museaum of the Gulf Coast. Retrieved on 2006-11-24.
- ^ Jimmy Clanton. IMBD. Retrieved on 2006-11-24.
