Spotify Release Info
Track: Venus in Blue Jeans
Artist: Jimmy Clanton
Album: This Is Jimmy Clanton
Artist Bio
Name: Jimmy Clanton
Spotify Genres: doo-wop
Followers: 26,690
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Biography
Jimmy Clanton (born September 2, 1938, Baton Rouge, Louisiana) is an American singer who became known as the "swamp pop R&B teenage idol". Brother of [a1290390]. His band recorded a hit song "Just A Dream" which Clanton had written in 1958. It reached number four on the Billboard chart. His songs "Just a Dream," "A Letter to an Angel," "Ship on a Stormy Sea," and "Venus in Blue Jeans," each sold over one million copies. In 1959, Clanton starred in a rock and roll movie produced by Alan Freed called "Go Johnny Go", and later in "Teenage Millionaire". Clanton formed his first band called the Rockets in 1956 while attending Baton Rouge 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 1960s. Clanton became a disc jockey at WHEX in Columbia, Pennsylvania between 1972 and 1976 and performed in an oldies revue in the 1970s. Clanton was inducted into The Museum of the Gulf Coast Hall of Fame and The Louisiana Music Hall of Fame. Had to remove "Jimmy Clanton & The Heartbeats" from 'groups' because discogs say they have no releases/don't exist.
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Check this outPopular Tracks on Spotify
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1.Another Sleepless NightThis Is Jimmy Clanton
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2.Venus in Blue JeansThis Is Jimmy Clanton
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3.Just a DreamThis Is Jimmy Clanton
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4.A Letter to an AngelThis Is Jimmy Clanton
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5.My Love Is StrongThis Is Jimmy Clanton
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6.Angel FaceJimmy's Tunes
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7.Go, Jimmy, GoThis Is Jimmy Clanton
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8.I Feel Those Tears Comin' OnJimmy's Tunes
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9.What Am I Gonna DoThis Is Jimmy Clanton
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10.My Own True LoveThis Is Jimmy Clanton
Discogs Release Info
Release: Jimmy Clanton - Venus In Blue Jeans
Year: 1962
Genres: Rock, Pop
Styles: Rock & Roll, Ballad