- His brother, Ike Clanton, played the bass for famed guitarist Duane Eddy ("Rebel Rouser","Cannonball", "Peter Gunn","Forty Miles Of Bad Road" ).
- He had breakthrough hit in 1958 with the standard "Just A Dream"(#4 US Pop).
- In 1959, he was the first to record "My Own True Love" ("Tara"s Theme" from Gone with the Wind (1939) and later the theme from TV's Million Dollar Movie (1955)), reaching #33 US Pop.
- Inducted into the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame in 2007.
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