Article successfully added.

Jimmy Boyd Best (feat.Rosemary Clooney & Frankie Laine)

Best (feat.Rosemary Clooney & Frankie Laine)
Please inform me as soon as the product is available again.
Please enter the digits and letters in the following text field.

$19.13 *

* incl. VAT / plus shipping costsDepending on the country of delivery, the VAT at checkout may vary.

Item is temporarily out of stock.
Approx. delivery time: up to 3 weeks. (as far as available at the supplier - can be faster, but sometimes unfortunately not)

  • CDCOL7634
  • 0.1
(2006/COLLECTABLES) 26 tracks 1952-56 incl. the Rockabilly track 'Rockin' Down The Mississippi' more

Jimmy Boyd: Best (feat.Rosemary Clooney & Frankie Laine)

(2006/COLLECTABLES) 26 tracks 1952-56 incl. the Rockabilly track 'Rockin' Down The Mississippi'

Article properties: Jimmy Boyd: Best (feat.Rosemary Clooney & Frankie Laine)

  • Interpret: Jimmy Boyd

  • Album titlle: Best (feat.Rosemary Clooney & Frankie Laine)

  • Label Collectables

  • Genre Pop

  • Artikelart CD

  • EAN: 0090431763421

  • weight in Kg 0.1
Boyd, Jimmy - Best (feat.Rosemary Clooney & Frankie Laine) CD 1
01 (The Angels Are Lightning) God's Little Candl Jimmy Boyd
02 Owl Lullaby (original version) Jimmy Boyd
03 Needle In - Needle Out (The Tailor's Serenade Jimmy Boyd
04 (The Angels Are Ligthning) God's Little Candl Jimmy Boyd
05 Owl Lullaby (remake) Jimmy Boyd
06 The Little Boy And The Old Man (with Frankie Jimmy Boyd
07 Little Josey (with Rosemary Clooney) Jimmy Boyd
08 Dennis The Menace (with Rosemary Clooney) Jimmy Boyd
09 Tell Me A Story (with Frankie Laine) Jimmy Boyd
10 I'm Glad I'm Not (previously unreleased) Jimmy Boyd
11 Shoo-Fly Pie And Apple Pan Dowdy Jimmy Boyd
12 Marco, The Polo Pony Jimmy Boyd
13 Tom Boy (Previously unreleased) Jimmy Boyd
14 Poor Little Piggy Bank (with Frankie Laine) Jimmy Boyd
15 Let's Go Fishin' (with Frankie Laine) Jimmy Boyd
16 I Wanna Haircut With A Moon On Top Jimmy Boyd
17 Shepherd Boy Jimmy Boyd
18 How Come Jimmy Boyd
19 Ma, I Miss Your Apple Pie Jimmy Boyd
20 Kitty In The Basket (with Gayla Peevey) Jimmy Boyd
21 I'm So Glad (I'm A Little Boy and You're A Jimmy Boyd
22 Little Dog Jimmy Boyd
23 Don't Forget To Say Your Prayers Jimmy Boyd
24 Rockin' Down The Mississippi Jimmy Boyd
25 Bonus Track Jimmy Boyd
26 I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus Jimmy Boyd
Jimmy Boyd What do Jimmy Boyd and Bo Diddley have in common? Well, they were both born in... more
"Jimmy Boyd"

Jimmy Boyd

What do Jimmy Boyd and Bo Diddley have in common? Well, they were both born in McComb, Mississippi, and both left when they were young. Jimmy was born on January 9, 1940 (though some more recent...and perhaps reliable...sources say 1939). Jimmy's father, Leslie, put his wife, Winnie, their two sons, Kenneth (then four years old), and Jimmy (aged two), on a train to Riverside, California. He'd sold everything he owned but still only had enough money to send his wife and kids, so he rode the rails out west. Leslie got a job cleaning up construction sites, and often took the kids to a hillbilly dancehall near Riverside. One night, Jimmy's brother, Kenneth, went up to the bandstand and told the bandleader, Texas Jim Lewis, that he should hear his little brother sing and play. Lewis called Jimmy up on stage, and, by Jimmy's account, he went over well. Texas Jim and the manager of a local radio station asked Leslie and Winnie if Jimmy would sing every Saturday night on the hour-long radio show they planned to broadcast from the dancehall. A little later, Leslie developed cataracts in both eyes and scheduled surgery in Los Angeles. While there, he heard about auditions for the Al Jarvis Talent Show on KLAC-TV. Jimmy won the contest, and the next day KLAC was deluged with telegrams asking for more Jimmy Boyd. Television and radio followed, as did a Columbia Records contract, and then came I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus, which has reportedly sold more than sixty million records since Christmas 1952. Jimmy appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show five times, and recorded with Rosemary Clooney and Frankie Laine. By 1956, Columbia was running out of ideas of what to do with their former pre-teen star. Rockin' Down The Mississippi adapts a few lines from Daniel Decatur Emmett's Dixie and a few more from W. C. Handy's St. Louis Blues, but it would be a pretty lame record if not for Joe Maphis on guitar (a few months earlier, the writers had placed another of their songs, Slip, Slip, Slippin' In, with Lou Millet and Eddie Bond). The other side, Mixed Up Blues, was a cover version of Johnny Taylor's Mixed Up Rhythm & Blues. Taylor's original had appeared on the Bakersfield-based Fire Records three months before Jimmy's session.

Boyd went on to appear in a plethora of movies from the sublime ('Inherit The Wind') to the ridiculous (Conway Twitty's 'Platinum High School'). He was in a large number of TV series, including 'The Electric Company', 'Batman', 'My Three Sons', and most recently a 1993 episode of 'Law And Order'. He also made many more records, despite what can only charitably be called a barren patch after Santa Claus. After Columbia, he was on Jubilee, MGM, Dot, Capitol, VJ, Imperial, and Chelsea. Interesting fact: In 1965, he covered That's What'll I Give To You for VJ. The producer was Doris Day's son, Terry Melcher, who was also producing Wayne Newton. Melcher had found an unknown Australian group, and he pitched one of their songs to Newton and another to Boyd, thereby making them the first American artists to record Bee Gees' songs. At last sighting, Jimmy was an auto dealer in Redondo Beach, California, retailing high-end European automobiles.

Review 0
Read, write and discuss reviews... more
Customer evaluation for "Best (feat.Rosemary Clooney & Frankie Laine)"
Write an evaluation
Evaluations will be activated after verification.

The fields marked with * are required.

The Man and the Music by Fred Dellar & Mal Peachey
Frank Sinatra: The Man and the Music by Fred Dellar & Mal Peachey Art-Nr.: 0019036

Ready to ship today, delivery time** appr. 1-3 workdays

$11.26 $28.24
Pappa Was A Poor Man - No Regrets (7inch, 45rpm, PS)
Jersey, Jack: Pappa Was A Poor Man - No Regrets (7inch,... Art-Nr.: 45JJ625019

Ready to ship today, delivery time** appr. 1-3 workdays

$5.60
I Can Stand Tomorrow - Woman 7inch, 45rpm, PS
Jack Jersey: I Can Stand Tomorrow - Woman 7inch, 45rpm, PS Art-Nr.: 142303

Item has to be restocked

$7.92
Untamed (LP)
Johnny Tame: Untamed (LP) Art-Nr.: LP202207320

Ready to ship today, delivery time** appr. 1-3 workdays

$5.66 $16.92
Indistinct Horizon (LP)
Johnny Tame: Indistinct Horizon (LP) Art-Nr.: LP202787320

Ready to ship today, delivery time** appr. 1-3 workdays

$5.66 $16.92
NEW
Mayhem (CD)
Bambooozle: Mayhem (CD) Art-Nr.: CDJMA03

Ready to ship today, delivery time** appr. 1-3 workdays

$5.66 $8.49
Pop in Germany Vol.6
Various - Pop in Germany: Pop in Germany Vol.6 Art-Nr.: BCD16750

Ready to ship today, delivery time** appr. 1-3 workdays

$15.79 $18.05
Pop in Germany Vol.5
Various - Pop in Germany: Pop in Germany Vol.5 Art-Nr.: BCD16740

Item has to be restocked

$15.79 $18.05
Mit dem Wind muss ich weiterzieh'n - Western (CD)
Various - Western: Mit dem Wind muss ich weiterzieh'n - Western (CD) Art-Nr.: BCD16292

This article is deleted and can no longer be ordered!

$15.79 $18.05