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Jimmy Clanton

Jimmy Clanton has been played on NTS in shows including Death Is Not The End, featured first on 1 November 2020. Songs played include Just A Dream.

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…

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Just A Dream
Jimmy Clanton
Ace Records1959
Just A Dream
Jimmy ClantonAce Records1959
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