Sandy Sans - What Made Nashville Famous (Made a Poor Man Out of Me) (Throne 51118), 1968
G.W. Sanderford, better known in the late 1960s as “Sandy Sans”, recorded two records for the independent Throne label, which was based in Independence, Missouri, a suburb of Kansas City. Sanderford might have been originally from Arkansas and the song featured today, "What Made Nashville Famous (Made a Poor Man Out of Me)", featured the involvement of two more Arkansas natives, brothers Keith and Elmo Lincoln Kissee, better known as Jimmy Dallas and Elmo Linn.
The Kissee brothers hailed from Mammoth Springs, Arkansas, near the border to Missouri. By the late 1940s, they had relocated to Kansas City, Missouri, where both started a career in country music. Keith Kissee performed as Jimmy Dallas and Elmo Lincoln Kissee as Elmo Linn. They would be active in the city as musicians for decades, recording, performing, and working on radio and TV.
The Throne label was started in 1968 by Bud Throne, who also produced Sandy Sans’ session. It featured Jimmy Dallas on bass and probably musicians from his band - Larry Roberts on lead guitar, Gene Dunlap on piano, and Bob Meyers on drums. Elmo Linn was the A&R men for this session and possibly had a hand in picking the song material. A newspaper article from 1968 cited Sandy Sans that he had high hopes in this record, especially in the top side “What Made Nashville Famous”. However, the single became not a hit.
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| Billboard November 2, 1968 DJ Ted Cramer's listeners on KCKN in Kansas City loved Sandy Sans' "What Made Nashville Famous" |
Sans had one more single out on Throne the same year, "It's All Over Now" b/w "To Heck With Love". I don't known what happened to G. W. Sanderford alias Sandy Sans after 1968. Jimmy Dallas and Elmo Linn continued their musical activities throughout the years. Elmo Linn died in 1994, Dallas passed away in 2004.
• Jimmy Dallas on Westport
Sources
• 45cat entry
• Discogs
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