Sandy Nelson's song "Teen Beat" rose to #4 on the charts in 1959. Subsequently he signed with the Imperial label and pounded out two more Top 40 hits, "Let There Be Drums" and "Drums Are My Beat". All three were instrumentals (a feat seldom, if ever, repeated). 1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Imperial Records has been the name of at least three different record labels of the 20th century. ...

Sander Nelson was born in 1938 in Santa Monica, CA. He attended high school with Jan Berry, Dean Torrence (who together became Jan and Dean), and Phil Spector. After gaining respect as a session drummer, he played on such well-known songs as "To Know Him Is To Love Him" (Spector's Teddy Bears, 1958), "Alley-Oop" (The Hollywood Argyles, 1960), "A Thousand Stars" (Kathy Young and the Innocents, 1960) and more. 1938 (MCMXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... Santa Monica Pier Santa Monica is a coastal city located in Los Angeles County, California USA, by the Pacific Ocean, south of Pacific Palisades and Brentwood, west of Westwood, Los Angeles, and north of Venice. ... Jan Berry (April 3, 1941, Los Angeles -- March 26, 2004) and Dean Torrence (born March 10, 1940, Los Angeles) were a rock and roll duo popular from the late 1950s through the mid-1960s. ... Phil Spector Harvey Phillip Phil Spector (born December 26, 1940) is a highly influential record producer who turned out some of the best-known popular music of the 1960s and 1970s. ... 1958 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Hollywood Argyles were a doo wop band put together by producer/songwriter Kim Fowley, then still a student at University High School in West Los Angeles. ... 1960 was a leap year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1960 was a leap year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ...

References

• Joel Whitburn. "Top 40 Hits". ISBN 0-8230-8280-6.

External Links

• Sandy Nelson page