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- Category: Recording
- Star rank: 1143
- Address:
1508 Vine St - Position: 3 tiles from the curb, facing south
- GPS location:
34.099644, -118.326527
Tommy Sands
Biography
Tommy Sands (L) with Annette Funicello
Source: Freebase
Tommy Sands (born Thomas Adrian Sands, August 27, 1937, Chicago, Illinois) is an American pop music singer and actor.
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 chart.
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.
[edit] Acting
Sands performed in several films including Mardi Gras (1959), Babes in Toyland (1961), Ensign Pulver in 1964, and None But the Brave (1965) playing a Marine Second Lieutenant.
Fact file
- Birthname: Thomas Adrian Sands
- Born: August 27, 1937, Chicago, Illinois
- Occupation: Singer and Actor
Read more about Tommy Sands at Wikipedia or at the Internet Movie Database
Vine St, east side, between Sunset and Selma
Nearby you will also find Ruth Ashton Taylor, Dorothy Dalton, Ava Gardner, Art Linkletter, and many others.