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Jimmy Clanton

ジミー・クラントン　/　じみー・くらんとん

American singer

September 2, 1938 (age 87)　・　Raceland, Louisiana, United States

Louisiana
singer
songwriter
recording artist

My Take

I have a soft spot for Jimmy Clanton, the so-called swamp pop R&B teenage idol out of Raceland, Louisiana. Writing your own million-selling hit at twenty, as he did with Just a Dream in 1958, is no small feat, and the fact that it climbed to number four on the Billboard chart still impresses me. What I find compelling is the texture of that sound, humid, aching and unmistakably Southern, the kind of thing a polished modern studio can no longer quite reproduce. Eras label artists like him as relics, but he authored his own moment, and that earns my lasting respect.

Overview

Jimmy Clanton (born September 2, 1938) is an American singer who became known as the "swamp pop R&B teenage idol". His band recorded a hit song "Just a Dream" which Clanton had written in 1958 for the Ace Records label. It reached number four on the Billboard chart and sold a million copies.

Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

1. Profile

Name (English): Jimmy Clanton
Name (Japanese): ジミー・クラントン
Reading: じみー・くらんとん
Born: September 2, 1938 (age 87)
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac: Virgo / Tiger
Origin: Raceland, Louisiana, United States
Blood type: Private
Height: Private
Agency: Private
Occupation: singer / songwriter / recording artist / musician

2. Background

Elementary school: Private
Junior high: Private
High school: Baton Rouge Magnet High School
University: Private

3. Relationships

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Children: Private
Parents: Private
Siblings: Private

4. Personality

Motto

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6. Links

Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%9F%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AF%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3%E3%83%88%E3%83%B3

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