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JODIE SANDS

“WITH ALL MY HEART”

(Bob Marcucci, Pete De Angelis)

Chancellor 1003

No. 15    June 24, 1957

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Jodie Sands was a mainline pop vocalist–with an extra ordinary voice–from Philadel­phia who sang in the

tradition of Eydie Gorme, Giselle MacKenzie, and Kay Starr.  But unlike these other songstresses, Jodie

could sound like a sweet but sexual­ly charged kid.  Most of her songs had a seductive and slightly sassy

Latin feel.  Her solid seller was a cha-cha­ like teen tune with plenty of “la-la-las” and a deep­ voiced male

chorus.

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Her debut disk, “Love Me Always,” had appeared on the tiny Teen label in 1955 only to reappear and

disappear under the Bernlo logo months later.  Bob Marcuc­ci, who would later “discover, market and

manufacture” Fabian and Frankie Aval­on, was one of the few who noticed the disk; when he formed his

Chancellor company (reportedly with help from DJ don Dick Clark) in 1957, Jodie was his first signing.

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Although Sands’ “Sayonara (Goodbye)” was fea­tured in the rock’n’roll flick Jamboree (1957), this fol­low-

up to “With All My Heart” failed to make a showing on the national charts.  After some minimal action with

“Someday (You’ll Want Me to Want You)” (#95, 1958), Sands was forever absent from the airwaves and the

charts.  Up through the early ’60s, passed over sides were issued by the Signature, Thor, Paris, and ABC-

Paramount labels.