Troy Shondell
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Troy Shondell (born Gary Shelton, 14 May 1940, Fort Wayne, Indiana) is an American vocalist, who achieved a modicum of fame and recognition in the very early 1960s.
He became a transatlantic one-hit wonder, by releasing a single that made the record charts in both the UK and the U.S.
His most famous recording was :-
- "This Time (We're Really Breaking Up)" - (1961)
Shondell recorded his first session for Mercury Records subsidiary, the Smash record label of Chicago, in 1958. The song was a rock version on "My Hero" from The Chocolate Soldier. It was quickly banned in Boston because of the lyrics including the word "come".[citation needed]
He followed the next year with "Kissin' At the Drive In", a rockabilly song that sold mainly in the Midwest. In 1959 Mark Records released "Goodbye Little Darlin'". Again it sold well in the Midwest and a few other areas, but it never made it into the Top 40 of the national Billboard record chart.
In April 1961 he recorded "This Time". He and a good friend, Mike McMillen, decided to start their own record label "Goldcrest Records". The record was released the last week in June 1961, and sold ten thousand copies the first week. The song went to number 1 almost everywhere it got played. However, 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 first week of September, and landed in the Top 10 four weeks later, and stayed in the charts for a total of sixteen weeks.
"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.
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