American Pop-Rock Musician/Singer/Songwriter/Record Producer Tommy James on Live From Music City

May 19, 2011 - PRLog -- Nashville, TN – “Live From Music City,” a weekly radio show that airs on Tuesday nights at 8:00 pm CST on blog talk radio (www.blogtalkradio.com/live-from-music-city), welcomes American pop-rock musician, singer, songwriter and record producer Tommy James (http://www.tommyjames.com) to discuss his music career.

Born in 1947, in Dayton, Ohio, Tommy James and his family finally settled in Niles, Michigan, where he made his first stage appearance as a child model at the tender age of four.  In 1959 he formed his first rock band, “The Tornadoes,” which developed a sizable regional following.

In 1964, a local DJ asked Tommy and the group to sign with his new label, Snap Records. They changed their name to the “Shondells,” and released their first single, “Hanky Panky.” Although it was a local hit, it didn’t break nationally and was soon forgotten.

Amazingly, two years later, a copy of “Hanky Panky” was discovered in a record bin by a Pittsburgh nightclub DJ who played it at his weekend dances. The crowd response was so overwhelming that radio deejays started spinning it and an enterprising record distributor bootlegged it, selling 80,000 copies in ten days. By May of 1966, “Hanky Panky” was the number one record in Pittsburgh and Tommy James was a sensation. The “Hanky Panky” album went gold just four weeks after its release.

Now the music of Tommy James is heard continuously, every day, in every country in the world: on the radio, television, or a film soundtrack. To date, he has sold over 100 million records and has been awarded 23 gold singles pus nine gold and platinum albums. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKyEyxwqS2c)



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