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- 1
Top works
- Just a Dream
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Film & TV
Known for
- Teenage Millionaire — Bobby Schultz1961
- Go, Johnny, Go! — Johnny Melody1959
- American Bandstand — Self1957
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Jimmy Clanton was born 2 September 1938 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA, 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 was known as the "swamp pop R&B teenage idol"), 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 year
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Jimmy
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Raceland
- Occupation
- recording artist
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- popular music
- Genre
- rhythm and blues
- Instrument
- voice
- Record label
- Ace Records
- Image
- Jimmy Clanton 1975.JPG
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- date of birth
- 1940-09-02
- copyright representative
- Broadcast Music, Inc.
- start of work period
- 1956-00-00
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