Jimmy Clanton & HIs Rockets - 'You Aim To Please'. A rough copy but worth a spin. (the other side, Just A Dream sadly unplayable). + Informações

From Wikipedia: Dick Holler moved with his family to Baton Rouge, Louisiana in 1951, where he later graduated from University High School and attended Louisiana State University for five years. It was while attending LSU that he began to play piano and organize bands and writing songs with his college friends. Holler performed for two years on the local award-winning record rating TV teen show "Hit or Miss" along with future actresses Donna Douglas (Beverly Hillbillies' Elly May) and Elizabeth Ashley, and movie critic Rex Reed. During a January 1956 "Teen Town Rally" TV show he met musician brothers Ike, Tommy and Jimmy Clanton. He tried, but was successful in signing the underage guitar player and vocalist Jimmy Clanton to play with his band at that time as well as his neighborhood band, "The Dixie Cats". In May 1956, a four-piece band was formed to play a four-night-a-week gig, that included Holler on piano, Jimmy Clanton on lead guitar, Mike Bankston on drums, and Ed Winston on tenor sax with occasional bassist Leonard Root. A club owner later changed the band's name to Dick Holler and the Carousel Rockets, shortened to The Rockets. The Rockets at times also included Mac "Dr. John" Rebennack, Cyril Vetter (co-writer of "Double Shot of My Baby's Love"), Grady Caldwell, Bobby Loveless (regional hit Night Owl), Jack Bunn, Junior Bergeron (Van Broussard band), Lenny Capello (Cotton Candy - RIC Records), Don Smith (co-writer of "Double Shot"), Merlin Jones, and others. Also .... + Informações

Clanton formed his first band called the Rockets in 1956 while attending Baton Rouge High School. One of the few white singers to come out of the New Orleans R&B/rock & roll sound, he rode the crest of the popular teen music wave in the 1950s and 1960s. His records charted in the top 40 seven times (all released on Ace); his Top 10 records were: the doo-wop song "Just a Dream," (Pop #4, R&B #1 in August 1958, credited to 'Jimmy Clanton and His Rockets'), "Go Jimmy Go" (peaked at number five in late 1959) and "Venus in Blue Jeans" (written by Howard Greenfield and Jack Keller). In early 1961, Clanton was drafted and spent the next two years in the US Army, continuing to have chart successes with "Don't Look at Me" and "Because I Do." His next major hit, "Venus in Blue Jeans," peaked at number seven in mid-1962. Clanton starred in a rock and roll movie produced by Alan Freed called Go Johnny Go, and later starred in Teenage Millionaire, with music arranged and produced by Dr. John and arranger/trumpeter Charlie Miller. During the late 1950s and early 1960s Clanton was managed by Cosimo Matassa, the New Orleans recording studio owner and engineer. In May 1960, Ace Records announced in Billboard that Philadelphia had proclaimed the week of May 16 to be "Jimmy Clanton Week." Clanton's songs "Just a Dream," "A Letter to an Angel," "Ship on a Stormy Sea," and "Venus in Blue Jeans," each sold over one million copies, and were awarded gold discs.. + Informações