My tribute to My Friend Tommy Sands

When I was a little Girl,age 5.Living in Bay Shore Ny,My parents listened to alot of Elvis, CBS.FM 101 and so I grew up with doowop and rockabilly in my house.

I loved doo wop and rockabilly.I remember my uncle would play anything from Elvis to Buddy Holly to Tom Jones in his Juke box he had in his basement with his own bar.

I grew up with the likes of Dion,Fabian, Bobby Darin, Bobby rydell,Connie Francis,Paul Anka, Joey Dee and the Starliters but I fell for someone at a very young age, Tommy Sands.

I could listen to his music and some of it had meaning for me,I could sing most songs and be in my own world when it came to music.

My parents would get a kick out of the fact I could name a song off the top of my head or sing it aloud and know all the words.

I was five in the picture above.I liked alot of diffrent music,Paul Anka was a favorite but Tommy was my very favorite.If he was on tv, My nana would call and say"joanne, your boyfriend's on tv",she was scottish and anyone I liked she called"My Boyfriend".

I listened to alot of Elvis as a kid to,my parents would play their albums when company would come over or my uncle and aunt would play cards and I could hear"jailhouse rock or my very favorite Rock a hulla".

I remember not long after my adoption in 1973,my parents with my older sister went to see Elvis in uniondale, Ny, My parents said"they had a "ball",I was to young to go at the time.

I discovered Tommy at such a young age,My aunt who was alot like me,collected albums and things but never understood why Tommy Sands she'd later found out.

This is My tribute to My friend,My first Love,to someone who made a diffrence in my life, To someone I would go to the ends of the earth for, someone I am still in love with and probley will always be,someone who I finally have found again and to someone whos very special,Tommy Sands.