Johnny Tillotson

Tillotson represents an America I find irresistibly warm. Nine top-ten hits across pop, country, and adult contemporary in the early sixties is staggering breadth, and Poetry in Motion still lodges in my head on first listen. But what elevates him for me is that he wrote It Keeps Right On a-Hurtin himself, proving he was a craftsman, not just a voice. A University of Florida man who earned a place in his state's Hall of Fame, he passed in 2025 carrying an entire era with him. I hear sincerity in his records that modern polish rarely matches.

Name (English)

Johnny Tillotson

Name (Japanese)

ジョニー・ティロットソン

Reading

じょにー・てぃろっとそん

Born

April 20, 1938 (age 88)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Taurus / Tiger

Origin

Jacksonville, Florida, United States

Occupation

musician / singer / songwriter / pop musician

University

University of Florida

Awards & achievements

• Florida Artists Hall of Fame

• Official sitehttps://johnnytillotson.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/officialjohnnytillotson/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny%20Tillotson
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%83%8B%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%83%AD%E3%83%83%E3%83%88%E3%82%BD%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q600635

Tags

• Florida
• musician
• singer
• songwriter

Last updated

2026-06-21

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.