Troy Shondell

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This Time 02:37 Tools
Girl After Girl 02:20 Tools
Tears From An Angel 02:20 Tools
Here It Comes Again 02:06 Tools
Na Ne No 02:37 Tools
Island In The Sky 02:24 Tools
Some People Never Learn 01:58 Tools
Just Because 02:43 Tools
Na-Ne-No 02:35 Tools
I've Got It 02:19 Tools
Gone 02:24 Tools
I Don't Know 03:02 Tools
The Glider 02:48 Tools
Thinkin' 02:08 Tools
I Got A Woman 02:31 Tools
Na Ne Do 02:36 Tools
I 've Got A Woman 02:34 Tools
Kissin' At The Drive-In 02:04 Tools
This Time - Re-Recording 02:08 Tools
A Rose and a Baby Ruth 02:03 Tools
The Trance 01:55 Tools
She's Got Everything She Needs 02:40 Tools
No Fool Like An Old Fool 02:04 Tools
Let Me Love You 02:01 Tools
Head Man 02:01 Tools
Let's Go All The Way 02:09 Tools
Little Miss Tease 02:40 Tools
Let's Go All the Way Again 02:04 Tools
Honey Bee 02:13 Tools
This Time (We're Really Breaking Up) 02:36 Tools
Now That We're Together 02:06 Tools
This Time [1961] 02:37 Tools
Something's Wrong In Indiana 02:46 Tools
This Time (1961) 02:37 Tools
Till the End of the Line 00:00 Tools
Goodbye Little Darlin' 02:06 Tools
Stop the World 00:00 Tools
Goodbye Little Darlin' Goodbye 02:07 Tools
This Time We're Really Breakin' Up 02:38 Tools
Trouble 02:48 Tools
My Hero 02:11 Tools
Rip It Up 00:00 Tools
Walk To The Dance 01:59 Tools
I've Got A Woman 00:00 Tools
here it comes again (TRX) 02:46 Tools
Walking In A Memory 02:23 Tools
Be Bop Love 02:03 Tools
The Great Lover 02:08 Tools
Mony Mony 02:08 Tools
Troy Shondell - This Time 02:08 Tools
C'mon Everybody 02:08 Tools
Young Till I Die 02:08 Tools
Rugged Ralph the Rapid Rabbit Runner 02:08 Tools
042 - Troy Shondell - this Time 02:08 Tools
This Time - 1961 02:08 Tools
This Time (1961 #6) 02:48 Tools
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Gary Wayne Schelton (May 14, 1939 – January 7, 2016), known by his stage name Troy Shondell, was an American vocalist, who achieved a modicum of fame and recognition in the early 1960s. He became a transatlantic one-hit wonder, by releasing a single that made the record charts in both the US and the UK. The song, "This Time" (or sometimes billed as "This Time (We're Really Breaking Up)" written by Chips Moman, sold over one million records, earning gold disc status. In a single year, sales were over three million copies. Shondell was born in 1939, raised in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and educated at Valparaiso and Indiana universities. He wrote his first song at age 14, which was recorded by Little Anthony & the Imperials. Shondell also learned to play five musical instruments. His professional music career started as a teenager. Mercury Records released his first single, "My Hero", from The Chocolate Soldier, which he recorded in 1958 under the name Gary Shelton, which was close to his real name, Gary Schelton. He followed the next year with "Kissin' at the Drive-In", a rockabilly song that went on to become a drive-in theater standard. Still performing as Gary Shelton, he seemed to be on his way, at least in the Midwest. Chicago's Brass Rail, a major nightclub that usually hosted jazz and blues acts, brought him in for its first foray into rock and roll. The successful gig stretched to 16 weeks. In 1959, Mark Records released "The Trance" and "Goodbye Little Darlin'". These sold well in the Midwest and a few other areas, but neither made it into the Hot 100's Top 40. The singer cited his father as a major influence, among others. A song he wrote about his father's death in 1960 from a heart attack, "Still Loving You", became a country hit when it was recorded by Bob Luman. His father's demise caused his career to falter, and he briefly returned to help run the family business. Around this time, he began using a new stage name, Troy Shondell, partly because of the popularity of actor Troy Donahue. In April 1961, he recorded "This Time", a song written by Chips Moman and first recorded by Thomas Wayne. The record was released during the last week in June on the tiny Gaye label and picked up by the small Los Angeles Goldcrest label, selling ten thousand copies during the first week. Six weeks after being released and played in Chicago, Shondell flew to Los Angeles and signed with Liberty Records. It finally hit the Billboard charts the third week of September and landed in the Top 10 five weeks later at its number six peak, and it stayed in the charts for a total of thirteen weeks. The track reached no. 22 in the UK Singles Chart at the end of that year. The song was covered by Shakin' Stevens on the 1981 Epic album Shaky (album). "Tears From An Angel" was his follow-up recording, released in March 1962. No further chart action was forthcoming, and Shondell quietly slipped away from the music industry the following year, despite his third single "Na-Ne-No", being produced by Phil Spector. However, in 1963, Tommy Jackson changed the name of his high school band from "Tom and the Tornados" to "The Shondells" in honor of Shondell (one of his musical idols). Jackson became "Tommy James" and international fame followed for the act. Chicago band the Ides of March originally named themselves the Shon-dells, also in tribute to Troy. Shortly before their debut single, "You Wouldn't Listen", was released, the label found out that James had been using the name first, so they were forced to change it. In 1968, Shondell became a songwriter for Acuff-Rose Music in Nashville, Tennessee, and the first recording artist for TRX Records, a branch of Hickory Records, for whom Shondell recorded some gramophone record discs until 1969, when he went into the music publishing field. In October 1969, Shondell was appointed as Assistant Regional Director for ASCAP's Southern Regional Office in Nashville. In 2001, Shondell still performed at shows and other events. Along with Jimmy Clanton, Ronnie Dove, and Ray Peterson, Shondell was a member of the Masters of Rock 'n' Roll. On October 2, 2007, Shondell traveled to Collins, Mississippi, to deliver a musical tribute to his fallen rock and roll colleague Dale Houston, who, with musical partner Grace Broussard, had reached no. 1 in 1963 with "I'm Leaving It Up to You" as the musical duo Dale & Grace. Shondell died from complications of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease on January 7, 2016. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.