Johnny Tillotson

Johnny Tillotson (born April 20, 1939 in Jacksonville, Florida) is an American singer-songwriter. He enjoyed his greatest success in the early 1960s, when he scored nine top-ten hits on the pop, country, and adult contemporary Billboard charts, including Poetry in Motion and the self-penned It Keeps Right On a-Hurtin. He also sang Yellow Bird, an adaptation of the Haitian song.

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