Bobby Collins, Robert Whitehead (Rear), Lloyd Jones (Front) and Will T. Vance
The Sports (Nashville, TN.)
Personnel :
Lloyd Jones (Lead)
Will T. Vance (Tenor)
Robert Whitehead (Baritone)
Bobby Collins (Bass)
Discography :
Nick Dean & The Sports
1956 - High School Baby / When You Lose Your True Love (Deb 1001)
The Sports Featuring Lloyd Jones
1956 - True Love Come Back To Me / Hot Lips And Pretty Brown Hair (Deb 1002)
Biography :
The Sports were a group of young high school and College lads
composed by Bobby Collins, Robert Whitehead, Lloyd Jones and Will T.
Vance . The Sports have garnered a reputation for harmony in local and
middle Tennessee bookings. They also have furnished the background
vocalising for records, especially two sides cut by Nick Dean for the
Deb Label. Nick Dean (Nee Nicholas "Nick" Boone) Younger brother of Pat
Boone was born 1 June 1935, Jacksonville, Florida, USA. Todd's brief
career from 1957-60 was built during the era when record companies were
flooding the market with teen idol types who could sing a poppish
unthreatening style of rock 'n' roll. As the younger brother of the king
of poppish rock 'n' roll, Pat Boone, Todd was quickly snapped up.
Nick Boone (Nick Dean)
After his first release on Deb, Nick Boone was signed to Dot Records
(which gave the singer his name by reversing the company's name). Todd's
"Plaything", which entered the US Top 50 in 1957, brought the singer to
the public's attention, and, that same year, a cover of Danny And The
Juniors' "At The Hop" (number 21) cemented a relationship with his
teenage fans. There then followed a spate of television appearances and
fan magazine profiles, but it did not last and Todd left the music
business to pursue a career in social work. The Sports recorded a second
single for Deb records with "True Love Come Back To Me" and "Hot Lips
And Pretty Brown Hair."
