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Born in Memphis, Tennessee, Lanson was a band singer with Francis Craig's dance band in the late 1930s. He became a singing star when major bandleader Ray Noble hired him as his orchestra's "boy singer"; [2] Noble and Lanson appear together in three Soundies musical films produced in 1941. Lanson made additional Soundies as a solo artist in 1944.
On the TV series, vocalists Dorothy Collins (1950–57, 1958–59), Russell Arms (1952–57), Snooky Lanson (1950–57) and Gisèle MacKenzie (1953–57) were top-billed during the show's peak years. During this time, MacKenzie had her own hit record in 1955 with "Hard to Get" which climbed to the #5 ranking in June 1955 and stayed on the ...
L-R: Tex Ritter, Jimmy Wakely, Snooky Lanson, Carl Smith and Rex Allen at the Landers Theatre. Note the Massey Ferguson tractor at right. Five Star Jubilee is an American country music variety show carried by NBC-TV from March 17–September 22, 1961.
The song reached No. 6 on the Cash Box Top 50, in a tandem ranking of The Dream Weavers, Jo Stafford, David Carroll, Snooky Lanson, and Lawrence Welk's versions, with The Dream Weavers and Jo Stafford's versions marked as bestsellers, [2] while reaching No. 4 on Cash Box ' s chart of "The Nation's Top Ten Juke Box Tunes", in the same tandem ...
Snooky Lanson (1960) Brenda Lee (1955–60)* Rosalie Leis, beauty queen (1956) Lincicome, Anita, Becky and Cathy (ABC Triplets) 1958; Merl Lindsay (1957)
Singer Snooky Lanson headed the cast of Appointment with Music, and Dorothy Dillard was the female vocalist. [3] The Dixie Dons quartet also performed on the show, [4] and Owen Bradley led a 26-piece orchestra. [2] As the summer replacement for Jimmy Durante's program, Appointment with Music was broadcast on Wednesdays at 10:30 p.m. Eastern ...
In 1950, while singing on the Hit Parade radio program, Wilson became one of the original starring vocalists—with Snooky Lanson and Dorothy Collins—on the TV version of the show. She sang on the Hit Parade TV show until 1952. In the fall of 1952, Wilson was replaced on the TV program by singer June Valli.
Eileen "Snooky" Bellomo, American singer and former backup vocalist for the band Blondie; Snooky Lanson, stage name of Roy Landman (1914–1990), an American singer; Snooky Pryor (1921–2006), an American blues harp player; Snooky Serna (b. 1966), a Filipina film and television actress; Snooky Young (1919–2011), an American jazz trumpeter