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Jimmy Clanton, born on September 2, 1938, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, is an American singer recognized as the "swamp pop R&B teenage idol." He gained fame with his hit song "Just A Dream," which he wrote in 1958 and reached number four on the Billboard chart. Clanton's notable songs, including "A Letter to an Angel," "Ship on a Stormy Sea," and "Venus in Blue Jeans," each sold over one million copies. In 1959, he starred in the rock and roll movie "Go Johnny Go," produced by Alan Freed, and later appeared in "Teenage Millionaire." Clanton formed his first band, the Rockets, in 1956 while attending Baton Rouge High School. As one of the few white singers emerging from the New Orleans R&B/rock & roll scene, he rode the wave of popular teen music in the 1950s and 1960s. Between 1972 and 1976, he worked as a disc jockey at WHEX in Columbia, Pennsylvania, and performed in an oldies revue during the 1970s. Clanton has been inducted into The Museum of the Gulf Coast Hall of Fame and The Louisiana Music Hall of Fame.

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