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Our guest this week rode the crest of the New Orleans Rock & Roll sound of the 50’s and 60’s. JIMMY CLANTON formed his first band in 1956, The Rockets -while he was a student at Baton Rouge high school.
By 1958 he was hitting the music charts- his first major Hit “Just A Dream” hit number 4 on the Pop charts and number 1 on the R&B lists. He followed that with “Go Jimmy Go” and then the chart busting “Venus In Blue Jeans”(1962).
Jimmy was drafted and served the next two years in the US Army.
He starred in a Rock & Roll movie produced by Alan Freed – “Go Johnny Go” and later starred in the film “Teenage Millionaire”.
Jimmy remains very popular nationally on the Oldies Concert circuit and continues to be adored by his audience.
We welcome Jimmy Clanton to WABC MusicRadio on Saturday 3/9/24.
-CB.
