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Carl Mann
Rockabilly one-hit wonder Carl Mann was born August 22, 1942 in Huntingdon,
Tennessee. He became proficient on both guitar and piano while still a boy, and
enjoyed his first brush with celebrity playing on a local radio station. After
releasing his first single, 1957’s “Gonna Rock and Roll Tonight”, he was signed
to the legendary Sun Records. One of his first recordings for Sun was a
rockabilly rave-up of the Nat King Cole standard “Mona Lisa”. Country singer
Conway Twitty heard the recording, and promptly recorded and released his own
version of Mann’s arrangement, which prompte...
