Johnny Tillotson

Johnny Tillotson (born April 20, 1938) is an American singer-songwriter. He enjoyed his greatest success in the early 1960s, when he scored nine top-ten hits on the pop, country, and adult contemporary Billboard charts, including "Poetry in Motion" and the self-penned "It Keeps Right On a-Hurtin'" and "Without You".
Tillotson is the son of Doris and Jack Tillotson, who owned a small service station on the corner of 6th and Pearl in Jacksonville, and acted as the station's mechanic. At the age of nine, Johnny was sent to Palatka, Florida, to take care of his grandmother. He returned to Jacksonville each summer to be with his parents when his brother Dan would go to his grandmother. Johnny began to perform at local functions as a child, and by the time he was at Palatka Senior High School he had developed a reputation as a talented singer.
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==Links to Peel==
Peel accidentally played briefly the singer's 1961 hit, 'Poetry In Motion', which was one of the UK Singles Chart Number Ones, on his 07 April 1995 programme, when he tried to play the Impalas' 'Sorry, I Ran All The Way Home'. He later apologised, stating that he had always intensely disliked the song and wished to save his audience from it.
==Shows Played==
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*07 April 1995: Poetry In Motion (played briefly)
==External Links==
*Wikipedia
*Discogs
Category:Artists