Snooky Lanson 45 RPM - Anytime / What Could and similar items

Snooky Lanson - Anytime / What Could I Do With Your Memory. Released 1960. Starday 862 promo 7" 45 rpm record. Condition: Record is VG++. Comments: Roy Landman (March 27, 1914-July 2, 1990), better known as Snooky Lanson, was an American singer known for co-starring on the NBC television series Your Hit Parade. Born in Memphis, Tennessee, Lanson was a band singer with Francis Craig's dance band in the late 1930s. He became a singing star when major bandleader Ray Noble hired him as his orchestra's "boy singer"; Noble and Lanson appear together in three Soundies musical films produced in 1941. Lanson made additional Soundies as a solo artist in 1944. On radio, Lanson was featured on Appointment with Music, The Saturday Showcase, and Sunday Night Serenade. NBC's popular Your Hit Parade radio programs featured Frank Sinatra, who left the series in 1950. Snooky Lanson was chosen to replace him, and Lanson became one of America's first TV stars when Your Hit Parade came to television in July 1950.