The rush of teen idols is on, not that teen idols are necessarily a bad thing. Just about all of ‘em, Bobby Vee, Johnny Burnette, Gene McDaniels, even Bobby Sherman, had at least one transcendent record, some had more. Fabian was an exception, but we’ll get to him later.Like Tab Hunter, Sands made movies, but unlike Hunter, Sands movie career was a spinoff of his music career. Sands had 11 top 100 singles, and I’ve only got two, and I don’t remember where I got those two.
Tommy Sands:
• Teenage Crush – First came A Rose And A Baby Ruth (“we had a quarrel, a teenage quarrel”), then Young Love, and now Teenage Crush. It didn’t stop there, oh no, Puppy Love was yet to come. From the winter of 1957.
• Goin’ Steady – Believe it or not, there’s a bit of Elvis inflection going on here. This picks up on the teenage romance theme, and it was a hit in the summer of 1957.
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