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Jimmy Boyd: Frank Sinatra
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At the time, Jimmy was the youngest entertainer ever allowed to appear in Las Vegas, starring at the famed Sands Hotel's "Copa Room" at age thirteen during Sinatra's "Rat Pack" era. On Jimmy's opening night show he was applauded back on stage by the audience for multiple encores. With the audience still cheering and whistling, Sand's boss, Jack Entratter, standing backstage, caught Jimmy and stopped him from going back on stage after his third encore. Entratter asked Jimmy if he could please go back for only one encore during his performances, and explained that it was nearly two o'clock in the morning and that the hotel needed the people to go back to the casino and gamble. Jimmy ... appeared at the Golden Hotel in Reno, Nevada.
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Bobby Darin ... wrote and produced a record "Made In The Shade" for Boyd. Although they had met briefly at different events, they became friends while working on different movies at Universal Studios. Unfortunatly Jimmy stated, "It was released at the same time as Phil Spector's first amazing "Wall of Sound" recordings. "Our record was more like a mound of sound and was lost in the fervor". Bobby was one of the most talented people I've ever known says Boyd. "Had he lived he would have sustained the same kind of legendary career that Sinatra had". "He could do it all. He could write and sing Rock and Roll, Folk, Jazz, or Croon with Sinatra.
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Al Jarvis had a five hour talk show everyday on KLAC with a few regulars on it, including Betty White , called "Make Believe Ballroom". Jarvis immediately announced Jimmy would be a regular on the show. The Frank Sinatra Show CBS soon followed, then Columbia Records and "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus", which to date has sold over sixty million records.
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Jimmy first went to Vietnam with his own show for the USO in 1965. In February 1967 he took part in Nancy Sinatra's USO tour of Vietnam. When asked "what's the most exciting thing that ever happened to you"? His reply was "The birth of my son."
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