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Rockabilly performer Sanford Clark useless at 85 from COVID-19
Up to date: 2:27 PM CDT Jul 6, 2023
Rockabilly and nation performer Sanford Clark, who had a High 10 hit with “The Idiot” in 1956, has died in a Missouri hospital from COVID-19. He was 85.Clark died Sunday at Mercy Hospital in Joplin, the place he had been receiving most cancers remedy earlier than he contracted the coronavirus, his publicist and fellow performer Johnny Vallis stated Monday.Clark was born on Oct. 24, 1935, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and raised in Phoenix, the place he first started performing within the early Fifties. “The Idiot” reached No. 7 on the Billboard High 100. The music was later recorded by a number of different well-known artists, together with Elvis Presley and The Animals.Presley really recorded the music twice, the primary time as a part of his private recordings whereas he was serving within the Military, then once more for skilled launch within the Nineteen Seventies, Vallis stated.“You’ll be able to hear that he’s making an attempt to emulate Sanford’s sound,” Vallis stated. “You understand, most individuals I do know wish to impersonate Elvis, and right here Elvis was making an attempt to impersonate him.” Clark recorded a number of different songs within the Fifties and Sixties that noticed minor success earlier than he left the music enterprise to work in development, although he often recorded in later many years on his personal label, Desert Solar Data.Sanford is survived by his spouse, Marsha, and several other youngsters.
Rockabilly and nation performer Sanford Clark, who had a High 10 hit with “The Idiot” in 1956, has died in a Missouri hospital from COVID-19. He was 85.
Clark died Sunday at Mercy Hospital in Joplin, the place he had been receiving most cancers remedy earlier than he contracted the coronavirus, his publicist and fellow performer Johnny Vallis stated Monday.
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Clark was born on Oct. 24, 1935, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and raised in Phoenix, the place he first started performing within the early Fifties. “The Idiot” reached No. 7 on the Billboard High 100. The music was later recorded by a number of different well-known artists, together with Elvis Presley and The Animals.
Presley really recorded the music twice, the primary time as a part of his private recordings whereas he was serving within the Military, then once more for skilled launch within the Nineteen Seventies, Vallis stated.
“You’ll be able to hear that he’s making an attempt to emulate Sanford’s sound,” Vallis stated. “You understand, most individuals I do know wish to impersonate Elvis, and right here Elvis was making an attempt to impersonate him.”
Clark recorded a number of different songs within the Fifties and Sixties that noticed minor success earlier than he left the music enterprise to work in development, although he often recorded in later many years on his personal label, Desert Solar Data.
Sanford is survived by his spouse, Marsha, and several other youngsters.
