Jimmy Boyd

Age: 70 (passed away Mar. 7th, 2009)
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Birth Place: McComb, Mississippi, USA
Born: Jan. 9th, 1939

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Jimmy Boyd's Main TV Roles

NOTE: Complete List of Works can be found at IMDB

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TRIVIA:

His father started giving him guitar and harmonica lessons when he was 4. A few years later, Jimmy was performing at barn dances.
A classmate, 'Molly Bee' (qv), who also recorded the hit song "I saw Mommie Kissing Santa Claus," died on 7 February 2009.
His recording of "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" was #1 on the Billboard pop music chart for 2 weeks (27 December 1952 - 3 January 1953).
Son with Anne Forrey, Devon.
A country-western band-leader, 'Texas Jim Lewis' (qv), heard Jimmy sing and hired him for his Saturday-night radio show. Jimmy won a radio talent show in Los Angeles and got the contract to record "I Saw Mommy...".
Recorded the Christmas novelty hit "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" in 1952 when he was 13. Three weeks after the Yuletide kiss-and-tell was released, the song was #1 on the Billboard charts. It sold 2 million records in less than 10 weeks. Recorded at the urging of Columbia record executive 'Mitch Miller (I)' (qv), the tune made "something of an overnight national musical figure" of the vocalist, a "freckle-patch" who lived in Van Nuys, CA, Time magazine reported in 1952. Even Boyd himself was surprised by the song's success. "I like it personally," he told Time, "but I didn't think anyone would buy it." From a big musical family - Boyd's grandfather was known in Mississippi as Fiddler Bill.
He was born to a struggling farm family in the Depression. His family eventually moved to California.

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