Interpret1 :TOMMY SANDS
Art : CD
Label : HYDRA
Artikel Nr. : #BCK 27132
1 Love Pains
2 Syrup Soppin´ Blues
3 A Dime And A Dollar
4 Life Is So Lonesome
5 Somethin´ Bound To Go Wrong
6 Kissin Ain´t No Fun
7 Roses Speak Louder Than Words
8 Spanish Coquita
9 I Know About The Bees
10 Never Let Me Go
11 Don´t Drop It
12 Hankerin (with Sunshine Ruby)
13 Don´t You Know I Love You (with Sunshine Ruby)
14 A Place For Girls Like You
15 Transfer
16 Love Pains
17 Every Little Once In A While
18 Hep Dee Hootie
19 Ring My Phone
20 Man Like Wow
21 Hawaiian Rock
22 Blue Ribbon Baby
23 Maybellene
24 Little Mama
25 Such A Night
26 Is It Ever Gonna Happen
27 Bigger Than Texas
28 Crazy ´Cause I Love You
Der erste Teil unserer Tommy Sands Retrospektive beinhaltet seine ersten Aufnahmen, die hier erstmals wiederveröffentlicht wurden, sowie einige seiner besten Rockabilly Songs.
Thomas Adrian „Tommy“ Sands (* 27. August 1937 in Chicago, Illinois) ist ein US-amerikanischer Country-, Rockabilly- und Popmusiker sowie Schauspieler. Nachdem Sands 1957 mit Teen-Age Crush einen nationalen Hit hatte, setzte er zu einer Karriere als Sänger und Schauspieler an.
Sands war der Sohn schottisch-irischer Einwanderer, die ebenfalls im Showgeschäft tätig waren. Sein Vater war Pianist und seine Mutter Sängerin in Art Kassels Big Band. In Chicago sammelte er als Kind erste Erfahrung im WBKB-TV Barn Dance. Mit sieben Jahren lernte er, Gitarre zu spielen, und trat in diesem Alter bereits im Louisiana Hayride auf, einer Countryshow, die über KWKH zu hören war. Zu dieser Zeit lebte die Familie bereits in Louisiana, seinen Abschluss an der High School machte Sands aber in Houston, Texas.
Seine professionelle Karriere begann Sands in der Country-Szene. Da er bereits als Kind aufgetreten war, hatte er als Jugendlicher genügend Showerfahrung. Er wurde ab 1952 von Colonel Tom Parker gemanagt, der später auch Elvis Presley betreute. 1951 machte Sands für das kleine Freedom-Label seine ersten Aufnahmen, und Colonel Parker verschaffte ihm 1953 einen Plattenvertrag bei RCA Victor, wo seinen Platten aber kein besonderer Erfolg beschieden war. Nach der High School zog Sands nach Los Angeles, da er nun auch die Schauspielerei für sich entdeckt hatte. Er war regelmäßig Gast in Tennessee Ernie Fords Radioshow und schloss sich für kurze Zeit dem Ensemble von Cliffie Stones Hometown Jamboree an.
Im Januar 1957 spielte Sands die Hauptrolle in der NBC-Show The Singing Idol, das lose auf der Geschichte Elvis Presleys basierte. Zunächst war die Rolle für Presley selber vorgesehen, doch da dieser ablehnte, wurde Sands engagiert. Seine Darbietung des Songs Teen-Age Crush dort machte Sands quasi über Nacht zum Star. Er bekam einen Vertrag mit Capitol Records und spielte Rock’n’Roll-Songs für das Label ein, das aus der Single einen Nummer-zwei-Hit in den Billboard Hot 100 machte.
Sands spielte nun keinen Country mehr, sondern weitaus populäreren Rockabilly, Rock’n’Roll und ab Ende der 1950er-Jahre auch Pop. Sein junges Alter und gutes Aussehen machten ihn schnell zu einem Teenager-Idol und für Capitol folgten weitere Hits wie Goin‘ Steady (#16), The Worryin‘ Kind (#69) oder Ring My Phone (#16), die jedoch alle nicht an den Erfolg seiner Debüt-Single herankamen. Sein Album Steady Date with Tommy Sands von 1957 erreichte Platz vier der Album-Charts. 1958 erhielt er die Möglichkeit, in dem Film Sing, Boy, Sing die Hauptrolle zu spielen, dem weitere Filme folgten. Der gleichnamige Titelsong zu Sing, Boy, Sing kam auf Platz 24 der Hot 100, das Album dazu auf Platz 17.
Auf Dauer konnte Sands sich jedoch nicht etablieren, weder im Plattengeschäft, da seine Hits Ende der 1950er-Jahre wieder verschwanden, noch in Film und Fernsehen, da seine Karriere dort schließlich in den 1970er-Jahren ihr Ende fand. Zwischen 1961 und 1967 stand Sands unter anderem für Buena Vista, ABC-Paramount und Imperial Records unter Vertrag.
Zwischen 1960 und 1965 war Sands mit Nancy Sinatra verheiratet und lebte mit ihr in Hollywood. Er hat eine Tochter aus einer anderen Beziehung und tritt heute weiterhin auf.
Part one in our overlook on Teen Idol Tommy Sands brings you his first recordings, re-released for the very first time, plus some of his best Rockabilly songs.
Thomas Adrian Sands (born August 27, 1937) is an American pop music singer and actor. Working in show business as early as 1949, 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.
Sands was born into a musical family in Chicago, Illinois; his father, Ben, was a pianist, and his mother, Grace, a big-band singer. He moved with the family to Shreveport, Louisiana. He began playing the guitar at eight and within a year had a job performing twice weekly on a local radio station. At the beginning of his teen years, he moved to Houston, Texas. He was only 15 when Colonel Tom Parker heard about him and signed him to RCA Records.
Sands's initial recordings achieved little in the way of sales but in early 1957 he was given the opportunity to star in an episode of Kraft Television Theatre called "The Singing Idol". He played the part of a singer who was very similar to Elvis Presley, with guitar, pompadour hair, and excitable teenage fans.
On the show, his song presentation of a Joe Allison composition called "Teen-Age Crush" went over big with the young audience and, released as a single by Capitol Records, it went to No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 record chart and No. 1 on the Cashbox chart. It became a gold record.
His track, "The Old Oaken Bucket", peaked at No. 25 on the UK Singles Chart in 1960.
He released his debut album Steady Date with Tommy Sands (1957).
Sands' sudden fame brought an offer to sing at the Academy Awards show. He did another episode of Kraft Television Theatre, "Flesh and Blood" (1957) playing the son of a gangster. He also made "The Promise" for Zane Grey Theatre (1957) playing the son of Gary Merrill.
Sands' teen idol looks landed him a motion-picture contract with 20th Century Fox to star in a 1958 musical drama called Sing, Boy, Sing, the feature film version of "The Singin' Idol".
Sands supported Pat Boone in a musical for Fox, Mardi Gras (1958), which was a moderate hit. He also released the albums Sands Storm (1958), This Thing Called Love (1959), and When I'm Thinking of You (1959).
His later albums included Sands at the Sands (1960) and Dream with Me (1960). From May to November 1960 he served in the US Air Force Reserves.
Sands' second lead role in a feature was in the teen comedy Love in a Goldfish Bowl (1961) with Fabian Forte. More popular was a fantasy musical he made at Disney, Babes in Toyland (1961), co-starring with Annette Funicello. That year he and Funicello sang the Sherman Brothers' title song from the Walt Disney release of The Parent Trap.
Sands guested starred on "The Inner Panic" for The United States Steel Hour and was one of several pop stars who played US Rangers in Fox's The Longest Day (1962).
Sands had married Nancy Sinatra whose father Frank offered Sands a role in Come Blow Your Horn but he turned it down, but had a support role in the war feature None But the Brave (1965), starring and directed by Frank Sinatra. Sands studied acting in New York.
Sands appeared alongside Fred Astaire in "Blow High, Blow Clear.
His last feature to date was The Violent Ones (1967) in which Sands had a supporting role. He moved to Hawaii in 1967.
In Hawaii, Sands operated the Tommy Sands Nightclub Tour for five years, opened the Outrigger Main Showroom and ran a clothing distributorship. He married a second time and became a father.
Sands' later appearances include more episodes of Hawaii Five-O and The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries. He occasionally returned to the mainland to work, appearing in dinner theatre.
Sands returned permanently to the mainland of the US in 1981, settling in Fort Wayne Indiana. He continues to make occasional public singing appearances.
