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Tommy Sands (born Thomas Adrian Sands,
27 August 1937,
Chicago,
Illinois) is an
American pop music singer and
actor.
Career
Born into a musical family in Chicago, his father was a
pianist and his mother a
big-band singer. While still young, he moved with his family to
Shreveport, Louisiana. Sands began playing the
guitar at age seven and within a year had a job performing twice weekly on a local
radio station. He was only fifteen when
Colonel Tom Parker heard about him and signed him to
RCA Records. His 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". He played the part of a singer who was very similar to
Elvis Presley, with guitar, bouffant hair, and excitable teenage fans. On the show, his song presentation of a
Joe Allison composition called "Teenage Crush" went over big with the young audience and, released as a
45 rpm single by
Capitol Records, it went to No.3 on the
Billboard Hot 100 record charts.
Sands' sudden fame brought an offer to sing at the
Academy Awards show and his
teen idol looks landed him a
motion-picture contract to star in a 1958 musical drama called
Sing, Boy, Sing. In 1960, he married
Nancy Sinatra and for a time they were the toast of Hollywood. Sands performed in several films including
Babes in Toyland in 1961,
The Longest Day in 1962, and
Ensign Pulver in 1964, but both his singing and film career had faded by the 1970s.
He was divorced from Sinatra in 1965 and has a daughter, model Jessica Sands, born in 1977 from another relationship.
Sands' pioneering contribution to the genre has been recognized by the
Rockabilly Hall of Fame.
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