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Clean living pays off for Jacksonville’s Johnny Tillotson
Crossover country didn’t start with Shania Twain. In the Fabulous Fifties, pop crooners like Tony Bennett and Patti Paige discovered that spruced-up versions of “hillbilly” songs could be a gold mine. That vein ran both ways: country singers and their labels suddenly discovered thousands of pop-music fans who had developed a taste for country. A [...]
