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Jimmy Boyd
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It won’t take you long to figure out that Jimmy Boyd is the most consistent handicapper the industry has to offer. He has been in the business crushing the books in college and pro football, college and pro basketball and Major League Baseball for years, but he burst onto the scene with Vegas Insider in 2006 for the start of the NFL season making quite the entrance with a profitable 57% year.
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Jimmy Boyd was arguably the singing child star of the early 1950s, a country-pop artist in the style of Teresa Brewer (and, later, Brenda Lee) who influenced everyone from Kris Kristofferson to Bobby Darin. Yet it's this 1952 hit he's most remembered for, a cute novelty given him by Mitch Miller at Columbia about a kid who can't understand why Mommy is cheating on Daddy with Santa! It seems innocuous now, but the Catholic Church actually managed to get this one banned in several major markets (including that old standby, Boston), claiming that the implication -- ... mistaken -- was all wrong for a religious holiday. It took a special conference between the 13-year-old Boyd and the Council of Churches to clear the song in those markets, where it finally enjoyed success year after year.
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Jimmy Boyd has been a member of the Cary Church of God staff since 1993. He previously served as youth and music minister at the Oak Park Church of God in Shawnee, Oklahoma. That was his first full-time position after graduating from Lee University with a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting. Jimmy had plans of becoming a CPA after graduation, but during his senior year he felt God call him into the ministry.
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Jimmy Boyd was born in an old farmhouse in McComb, Mississippi. In 1941 his father, Leslie Boyd, put his wife Winnie and their two sons (Kenneth, 4, and Jimmy, 2), on a train bound for Riverside, California for the second time. The family was sent back to Mississippi a year earlier by the California Welfare Department because Leslie didn't have any skills to get a good job. Having sold everything they owned, and only having enough money for his wife’s ticket and the two boys, Leslie rode the rails. He hitchhiked on freight trains to join his family in California, something he had done growing up through the Depression. Hoboing from Mississippi, Louisiana and as far as West Texas, he picked cotton to help support his own family of 21 brothers and sisters.
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Jimmy Boyd is one of the hardest working handicappers in the world, and he's been proving himself day in and day out at Locksmith Sports Picks for a long time. It doesn't matter if you are looking for predictions in the NFL, college football, NBA, college basketball, or baseball, every day there is a new slate of winning sports picks available for you to take advantage of. Plus, you will feel comfortable in each bet with the detailed analysis that Jimmy provides with each and every game.
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Between February of 1953 and November of 1954, Boyd made five appearances on the Ed Sullivan Show. In that era, an appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show (or being introduced in the audience as many film stars, famous athletes etc. were), was considered by the entertainment industry and the public alike to be the pinnacle of success. In one of Boyd's five appearances, a popular singer of the time, Gisselle Mckensie, was bumped off the show to put Jimmy on. He was in New York on his way to Montreal for a concert. After the show, Boyd was told they had bumped Mckensie and was very upset. He went to Ed Sullivan and personally asked him to please promise to re-book Gisselle.
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