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Pop/rock vocalist and songwriter Johnny Tillotson enjoyed his ideal success in the first ’60s when he scored some Top Ten strikes including “Poetry in Movement” as well as the self-penned “It all Keeps Directly on a-Hurtin’.” Altogether, he positioned 30 singles and LPs in the Billboard graphs between 1958 and …

After moving towards the Norfolk, VA, area within the mid-’50s, young Gary Anderson began plying his vocal wares, first in church, afterwards with an area group called the Turks. When he had not been however 21, he was contacted by regional record manufacturer Frank Guida to become listed on his …

Many musicians are nuts, that is accurate, but Sorrells Pickard was 1 musician which was almost even more into nuts than he was music. He was a peanut farmer and something of the makers of Sorrells Pickard Premium Peanut Butter. But this isn’t to recommend the man’s music was obscured …