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Jack Scott Biography
Jack Scott { Giovanni Domenico Scafone, Jr.} is a Canadian-American singer and songwriter. He was inducted into Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2011 and has been called “undeniably the greatest Canadian rock and roll singer of all time.”
Jack Scott Age
Jack was born on January 24,1936, in Windsor, Canada. He is therefore 84 years as of the year 2020.
Jack Scott Nationality
Jack is of an American, Canadian nationality.
Jack Scott Residential Area
He resides in Windsor, Ontario, Canada
Jack Scott Career
Scott spent his early childhood in Windsor, Ontario (Canada), across the river from Detroit, Michigan (United States). When he was 10, Scott’s family moved to Hazel Park, a Detroit suburb. He grew up listening to hillbilly music and was taught to play the guitar by his mother Laura.
As a teenager, he pursued a singing career and recorded as ‘Jack Scott.’ At the age of 18, he formed the Southern Drifters. After leading the band for three years, he signed to ABC-Paramount Records as a solo artist in 1957.
After recording two good-selling local hits for ABC-Paramount in 1957, he switched to the Carlton record label and had a double-sided national hit in 1958 with “Leroy” (#11) / “My True Love” (#3). The record sold over one million copies, earning Scott his first gold disc. Later in 1958, “With Your Love” (#28) reached the Top 40.
In all, six of 12 songs on his first album became hit singles. On most of these tracks, he was backed up by the vocal group, the Chantones.
He served in the United States Army during most of 1959, just after “Goodbye Baby” (#8) made the Top Ten.
1959 also saw him chart with “The Way I Walk” (#35). Most of his Carlton master tapes were believed lost or destroyed until Rollercoaster Records in England released a vinyl EP, “Jack Scott Rocks”, and CD, “The Way I Walk”, which were, for the most part, mastered from original tapes rather than the disc dubs used for previous reissues.
At the beginning of 1960, Scott again changed record labels, this time to Top Rank Records. He then recorded four Billboard Hot 100 hits – “What in the World’s Come Over You” (#5), “Burning Bridges” (#3) b/w “Oh Little One” (#34), and “It Only Happened Yesterday” (#38).
“What in the World’s Come Over You” was Scott’s second gold disc winner. Scott continued to record and perform during the 1960s and 1970s.
His song “You’re Just Gettin’ Better” reached the country charts in 1974. In May 1977, Scott recorded a Peel session for BBC Radio 1 disc jockey, John Peel.
Scott had more US singles (19), in a shorter period of time (41 months) than any other recording artist – with the exception of The Beatles, Elvis Presley, Fats Domino, and Connie Francis. Scott wrote all of his own hits, except one: “Burning Bridges.”
His legacy ranks him with the top legends of rock and roll. It has been said that “with the exception of Roy Orbison and Elvis Presley, no white rock and roller of the time ever developed a finer voice with a better range than Jack Scott, or cut a more convincing body of work in Rockabilly, Rock and Roll, Country-Soul, Gospel or Blues”.
In 2007, Jack Scott was voted into the Michigan Rock and Roll Legends Hall of Fame.
In 2011 he was inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame. More recently Scott was nominated for the Hit Parade Hall of Fame. He is still actively singing and touring today and resides in a suburb of Detroit.
Jack Scott Discography (Albums)
- 1959 Jack Scott (Carlton 12–107)
- 1960 I Remember Hank Williams (Top Rank RM319)
- In 1960 What in the World’s Come Over You (Top Rank RM326)
- 1960 What Am I Living For (Carlton 12–122)
- 1960 The Spirit Moves Me (Top Rank RM348)
- 1964 Burning Bridges (Capitol T2035)
- 2015 Way To Survive (Bluelight BLR 33176)
Jack Scott Singles
1957
“Baby, She’s Gone”
b/w “You Can Bet Your Bottom Dollar”
“Two Timin’ Woman”
b/w “I Need Your Love”
1958
“My True Love” /
“Leroy”
“With Your Love” /
“Goodbye Baby” /
1959
“I Never Felt Like This”
b/w “Bella”
“The Way I Walk”
b/w “Midgie”
“There Comes A Time”
b/w “Baby Marie”
1960
“What in the World’s Come Over You”
b/w “Baby, Baby”
“Burning Bridges” /
“Oh, Little One”
“What Am I Living For”
b/w “Indiana Waltz” (from Jack Scott)
“It Only Happened Yesterday” /
“Cool Water”
b/w “Go Wild Little Sadie”
“Patsy”
b/w “Old Time Religion” (from The Spirit Moves Me)
1961
“Is There Something On Your Mind”
b/w “I Found A Woman” (Non-album track)
“A Little Feeling (Called Love)”
b/w “Now That I” (Non-album track)
“My Dream Come True”
b/w “Strange Desire” (Non-album track)
“Steps One And Two”
b/w “One Of These Days” (Non-album track)
“If Only”
b/w “Green Green Valley”
1962
“Cry Cry Cry”
b/w “Grizzily Bear”
“The Part Where I Cry”
b/w “You Only See What You Wanna See”
“Sad Story”
b/w “I Can’t Hold Your Letters (In My Arms)”
1963
“Laugh and The World Laughs With You”
b/w “Strangers” (Non-album track)
“All I See Is Blue”
b/w “Meo Myo”
“There’s Trouble Brewin'”
b/w “Jingle Bells Slide”
1964
“I Knew You First”
b/w “Blue Skies (Moving In On Me)”
“What A Wonderful Night Out”
b/w “Wiggle On Out”
“Thou Shalt Not Steal”
b/w “I Prayed For An Angel”
“Tall Tales”
b/w “Flakey John”
1965
“I Don’t Believe In Tea Leaves”
b/w “Separation’s Now Granted”
“Don’t Hush The Laughter”
b/w “Let’s Learn To Live and Love Again”
“I Hope I Think I Wish”
b/w “Looking For Linda”
1966
“Before The Bird Flies”
b/w “Insane”
1967
“My Special Angel”
b/w “I Keep Changing My Mind”
1970
“Billy Jack”
b/w “Mary Marry Me”
1973
“May You Never Be Alone”
b/w “Face To The Wall”
1974
“You’re Just Gettin’ Better”
b/w “As You Take A Walk Through My Mind”
1992
“Burning Bridges” (with Carroll Baker)
Jack Scott Website
jackscottmusic.com
Jack Scott You tube
