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Originally released (November 1966)
The Best Of Sonny James. Album • Sonny James • 1966. 12 songs • 29 minutes. Play. Save to library. 1. Room In Your Heart. 55K plays. 2:25. Young Love. 6.1M plays. 2:31. 3. I'll Keep...
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Musical beginnings
Jimmie Hugh Loden was born on May 1, 1928 to Archie Lee "Pop" Loden and Della Burleson Loden, who operated a 300-acre (120 ha) farm outside Hackleburg, Alabama. His parents were amateur musicians, and his sister Thelma Lee Loden Holcombe also played instruments and sang from an early age. By age three he was playing a mandolin and singing and was dubbed "Sonny Boy". In 1933, the family appeared on a radio audition which resulted in their being offered a regular Saturday slot on Muscle Shoals,...
Top of the charts
In late 1956 James released "Young Love", a 45 rpm single for which he would forever be remembered. As the first teenage country crossover single, it topped both the US country and pop music charts in January to February 1957. Record sales could have been higher if Capitol Records had anticipated the exposure on popular-music charts; they had ordered only enough copies of the record to satisfy the anticipated country-music demand, and were therefore unable to supply most of the requests for r...
More success
On August 15, 1964, James made his first appearance with a vocal group that had been together for five years. The group consisted of Lin Bown – 1st tenor, Gary Robble – 2nd tenor, Duane West – baritone and Glenn Huggins – bass. These four young men had started singing as freshmen at Eastern Nazarene College in Quincy, Massachusetts, in 1959, and in September 1962 they transferred to a sister college in Nashville, Tennessee. 16 months later in January 1964 they replaced the Jordanaires as the...
In 1956, as rock and roll was just beginning, James's multi-million selling single "Young Love" became a No. 1 country and pop hit, one of the first such crossover hits by a country artist. In 1957, James became the first country recording artist to appear on The Ed Sullivan Show. In 1961, honoring his contribution to the music industry, James was ...
Sonny James at IMDbThe Best of Sonny James [Curb] by Sonny James released in 1991. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.
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27 ago 1990 · The Best of Sonny James - Album by Sonny James - Apple Music. Sonny James. COUNTRY · 1990. Preview. 1. Tie a Yellow Ribbon 'round the Old Oak Tree. Sonny James, Karla Taylor. 3:30. August 27, 1990 1 Song, 3 minutes ℗ 1990 Curb Records, Inc. Also available in the iTunes Store. More By Sonny James. Capitol Collectors Series: Sonny James. 1990.
