Johnny Dollar
Johnny Dollar
Top Songs
| 1 | You've Got What it Takes | ||
| 2 | Changing Her Thinking | ||
| 3 | Big Wheels Sing for Me | ||
| 4 | If I Get Low Enough | ||
| 5 | I've Got to Stay High |
Albums
Jun 2013 • 24 songs
Jul 1969 • 12 songs
Jun 1969 • 12 songs
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About
Biography
Country and rockabilly vocalist Johnny Dollar was born in Kilgore, TX, on March 8, 1933. Arriving in Dallas in the early '50s, Dollar worked a series of odd jobs, including roughneck, truck driver, and lumber-yard foreman. He cut a record with Shelby Singleton's D Records around 1952, but it went nowhere fast. Dollar then became a DJ in Louisiana and New Mexico, while also leading the Texas Sons, who played regularly on Louisiana Hayride, the Shreveport-based variety show broadcast on KWKH. He then left the Sons to join Martin McCullough's Light Crust Doughboys, but by the lat...