Song of the Day: Johnny Tillotson, “Dreamy Eyes”

General 1 Minute

Pop and country singer Johnny Tillotson was born on this day in 1934. In 1957, a local Jacksonville, Florida DJ named Bob Norris submitted a tape of Johnny to the Pet Milk talent contest, and he was chosen as a finalist. This led him singing in Nashville, where he was heard by music publisher Lee Roseberg, who recommended him to Archie Bleyer, president of Cadence Records. "Dreamy Eyes" was his first single and reached #63 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1958.

Published by John Holton

Internet disc jockey, lover of old TV (especially the commercials), inveterate wise guy.

Published

10 thoughts on “Song of the Day: Johnny Tillotson, “Dreamy Eyes””

  1. Pingback: The Lost Week From Hell That Was – The Sound of One Hand Typing

  3. Lovely and sounds very much what I would have called an oldie as a teenager back in the ’80s. Of course, the definition of oldie has since changed. From today’s perspective, you pretty much could call any ’80s or ’90s song an oldie! :-)

    Like

    Reply

  5. I recall hearing songs by Tillotson in the mid sixties. Didn’t know he was making music back into the 50’s. I never considered myself a fan of his music, but he had a classic sound of that era.

    Lee

    Like

    Reply

  6. This is definitely off topic, way off topic, but have you ever run across a piece of music bearing the title of “Walking Pneumonia Blues”?

    Like

    Reply

You can use Markdown in your comments. Thanks for your comment!

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

Gravatar
WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Cancel

Connecting to %s