Tommy Sands

The multi-talented Tommy Sands was created August 27, 1937, in Chicago, IL, to show-business parents. His admittance in to the business was no mistake, shock, or happenstance, but hereditary and unavoidable. His father performed piano and his mom sang. He got electric guitar lessons when he was eight yrs . old and became a satisfactory axeman. By this time around the Sands got shifted to Houston, TX, where Sands got the performing bug. He shifted to LA after senior high school and arrived employment on Cliffie Stone’s nation & western tv program. The exposure resulted in regular performances on Tennessee Ernie Ford’s every week televison plan and nightclub gigs. He got a huge break in 1957 when he got the business lead role within the Singin’ Idol, a tv drama on rock and roll & move. The producer’s initial choice was Elvis Presley but he wasn’t obtainable, therefore a search continued and Sands earned. A single through the present Teenage Crush on Capitol Information went to number 2 on Billboard’s pop graph and Sands became an right away sensation. He made an appearance on many Kraft Movie theater shows and just about any network variety present on tv. No one-hit question, he also strike the graphs with “Goin’ Steady,” “The Worryin’ Kind,” “Blue Ribbon Baby,” “Sing Boy Sing,” “The Aged Oaken Bucket,” and “The Mother or father Trap.” The discharge of “I’M GOING TO BE Viewing You,” proclaimed a fresh musical path for Sands. He cut two albums with Nelson Riddle and continue steadily to discharge singles for a number of labels, but non-e in the teenager rock and roll format that produced him famous. Through the late ’50s towards the ’70s he made an appearance in a lot more than 150 tv programs, and several films including Sing Youngster Sing (his initial), Babes in Toyland, The Longest Time, Ensign Pulver, non-e but the Daring, Mardi Gras, as well as the Violent One. He wedded Nancy Sinatra in 1960; the union lasted five years. Where can be he today? Still executing and thrilling enthusiasts all around the globe. What else? It’s in his genes.