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Thomas Adrian "Tommy" Sands is an American pop music singer and actor, known for portraying Tom Piper in the 1961 Disney film Babes in Toyland. He also sang the title song to The Parent Trap with Annette Funicello.

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Sands was born into a musical family in Chicago, Illinois to a pianist father and a big-band singer mother. After moving with the family to Shreveport, Louisiana, he began playing the guitar at eight and within a year had a job performing twice weekly on a local radio station. At the beginning of his teen years, Sands moved to Houston, Texas, where he attended Lamar High School and joined a band with "Jimmie Lee Durden and the Junior Cowboys", consisting of Sands, Durden, and Billy Reno. He was only 15 when Colonel Tom Parker heard about him and signed him to RCA Records. He later moved to Capitol Records where be recorded the song "Teen-Age Crush", which peaked at #2 on the Billboard Top 100 in 1957, his biggest hit to date.

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