For the Irish folk singer, see Tommy Sands (Irish singer). For other people named Thomas Sands, see Thomas Sands.
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Tommy Sands
Tommy Sands in 1957
Background information
Birth name
Thomas Adrian Sands
Born
(1937-08-27) August 27, 1937 (age 86) Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Genres
Country
Countrypolitan
Rockabilly
pop music
Occupation(s)
Singer, actor
Instrument(s)
Vocals, guitar
Years active
1949–present
Labels
RCA
Capitol
Buena Vista
Vista
ABC
Liberty
Imperial
Superscope
Musical artist
Thomas Adrian Sands (born August 27, 1937)[1] is an American pop music singer and actor. Working in show business as a child, Sands became an overnight sensation and instant teen idol when he appeared on Kraft Television Theater in January 1957 as "The Singin' Idol". The song from the show, "Teen-Age Crush", reached No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 1 on Cashbox.[2]
^Murrells, Joseph (1978). The Book of Golden Discs (2nd ed.). London: Barrie and Jenkins Ltd. p. 95/6. ISBN 0-214-20512-6.
^"RAB Hall of Fame: Tommy Sands". rockabillyhall.com. Retrieved October 27, 2017.
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Feel So Young/Old". That same year, she began a five-year marriage to TommySands. Sinatra was signed to her father's label, Reprise Records, in 1961....
Gene Austin, and country music singers Eddy Arnold, Hank Snow, and TommySands. He also assisted Jimmie Davis's campaign to become governor of Louisiana...
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story. It was written by the Northern Ireland folk singer and songwriter TommySands. It was first recorded in 1985 by Robbie O'Connell, Mick Moloney and...
fantasy Babes in Toyland, supporting Funicello, Ray Bolger, Ed Wynn and TommySands. Kirk later described this film as "sort of a clunker ... but it has...
For coverage of solo careers of some band members, see TommySands and Colum Sands The Sands Family is a Northern Irish musical family band originating...
Roberts. The film stars Robert Walker Jr., Burl Ives, Walter Matthau and TommySands and features Millie Perkins, Larry Hagman, Kay Medford, Peter Marshall...
Steady Date with TommySands is the 1957 debut album by American singer TommySands. A double page advertising spread in the April 13, 1957 issue of Billboard...
chart. TommySands, as part of a medley with "(I'm) All Shook Up", "Splish Splash", and "Hound Dog" on his 1960 live album, Sands at the Sands. Freddie...
the Alabama Hills, Mojave Desert and Lone Pine, California. This was TommySands' last movie before his retirement tho he would act in some TV episodes...
Bowl is a 1961 teen film directed by Jack Sher starring singing idols TommySands and Fabian. Gordon Slide and Blythe Holloway are two platonic best friends...
episodes, including the one broadcast on November 6, 1965, in which TommySands performed his record "The Statue", a song about the dance. Host Sam Riddle's...
Dick Powell Show, for which he took home the award. In 1963, Falk and TommySands appeared in "The Gus Morgan Story" on ABC's Wagon Train as brothers who...
(1961 film), a Disney musical starring Ray Bolger, Annette Funicello and TommySands, again based on the Victor Herbert operetta Babes in Toyland (soundtrack)...
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than the music, contributing to the successful careers of Ricky Nelson, TommySands, Bobby Vee, Del Shannon, and the Philadelphia trio of Bobby Rydell, Frankie...
Story" Ted Post Harold Swanton January 27, 1960 (1960-01-27) Guest star TommySands, Pierre Watkin 95 18 "The Clayton Tucker Story" Virgil W. Vogel Story...
Wonderland (1951) and played The Toymaker alongside Annette Funicello and TommySands in the Christmas operetta film Babes in Toyland released in 1961. In...
as Chief Pharmacist Mate Francis Clint Walker as Capt. Dennis Bourke TommySands as 2nd Lt. Blair Brad Dexter as Sgt. Bleeker Tony Bill as Air Crewman...
With Áine Uí Cheallaigh Idir Dha Chomhairle - In Two Minds (1992) With TommySands Beyond the Shadows (1992) The Heart's a Wonder (1995) With Sharon Shannon...
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