Sandy Nelson
Sandy Nelson ( born December 1, 1938 in Santa Monica, California; actually Sander L. Nelson) is an American drummer. Between 1959 and 1964 he had nine instrumental tracks drums in the U.S. charts. His title Let There Be Drums reached number one on the 1962 Australian singles chart and number 3 in the UK. It belonged from 1999 to the live repertoire of the band Queen.
Life
Nelson attended the same high school, such as Jan Berry and Dean Torrence (Jan and Dean ), and Kim Fowley. After his graduation, he played in the band Renegades, consisting of Richard Podolor, Bruce Johnston and Nick Venet. He also worked as a studio musician, including in 1958 for Phil Spector to To Know Him Is to Love Him by Teddy Bears, 1960 on the number -one hit Alley - Oop of the Hollywood -produced by Kim Fowley Argyle and on various recordings by Gene Vincent.
1959 rose his first single Teen Beat, on which he was accompanied among others by surf music guitarist Richie Allen, to position four on the Billboard charts. This was followed in the early 1960s, a solo career as an instrumental artist. At his Imperial Records label, he released the single in 1961 Let There Be Drums, which again reached the Top 10. By 1964, followed by seven more placements on the Billboard Hot 100, in part, were A - and B- side of the same single in the charts. Reached between 1962 and 1966 eleven of his albums the Billboard 200, the album Let There Be Drums thereby rose to position six.
Nelson had a motorcycle accident, as a result, his right foot was amputated end of 1963. He continued his career then indeed gone, but from the mid- 1960s, his publications were not commercially successful. The Hessian Broadcasting put Nelsons Title Drums A Go Go as a theme song for the weekday magazine program Happened - a Listed, which aired 1966-2000. And then there were drums is the signature tune of the international hit parade by Wolf- Dieter Stubel that aired 1967-1990 on NDR 2 and will be broadcast on Radio NORA since 2005. Sandy was the signature tune of the sports programs at the Südwestfunk.
Nelson lives in Boulder City in Nevada, USA and published in late 2008 with Nelsonized another album.