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that Snyder played in was Toby Stroud and The Blue
Mountain Boys. The boys primarily played bluegrass, boasting the talented fiddle player, Toby Stroud, who would soon have a very successful career as a bluegrass fiddler. Toby Stroud and The Blue Mountain Boys enjoyed minor success with their song entitled "Jesse James." Today, the song is recognized as a classic example of early Bluegrass music, oftentimes included on compilation albums. Snyder soon found his way to Los Angeles, California, after his service in the US military. He began playing with the Gene Davis band in the mid-1950s. By 1959, the Gene Davis Band had a regular gig at The Palomino Club of North Hollywood. Snyder began getting recognition, as the band was soon advertised as "The Gene Davis Band featuring Jimmy Snyder." Snyder left the Gene Davis Band in 1961 and found his own gig at the Rag Doll Club, while Gene Davis attempted to replace him with
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Hollywood and Snyder had releases in the weeks to follow, along with Tony Booth and Bobby Bakersfield. He signed with Wayside Records, where he enjoyed the most commercial success of his career, produced by Little Richie Johnson. It was under Johnson's production that Snyder scored his biggest hit, "The Chicago Story", a song about a soldier's wife seeing him off to war, with a twist ending that was considered to be controversial at the time of the single's release. By the 1970s he was signed with American Heritage Records. In 1972, the Shelby Singleton Corportatio signed a contract with American Heritage Records for exclusive distribution rights. While signed to American Heritage, Snyder's "Candy" reached the country charts. Little Richie Johnson once again produced Snyder on American Heritage
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Chicago Story.” Jimmy Snyder and the Palomino Riders won their first ACM (Academy of Country Music) award in 1980 for “Best Non-Touring Country Band". In February 1970, he was nominated "Most Promising Artist of the Year" by Record News, Cashbox, and Billboard
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Wheeling, West Virginia as a young man, working as a coal miner to support his family. His professional music career began at the age of seventeen, when he was invited to play on the local WWVA radio show, "Wheeling Jamboree," in Wheeling, West Virginia. One of the earliest bands
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Records in the early 1960s. Among other early Toppa artists were Gene Davis, Johnny and Jonie Mosby, Wade Ray, Johnny Dabbs, Kenny Brown, and Lina Lynne. He was briefly signed with K-Ark Records in the late 1960s. In February 1971, K-Ark merged
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Presley song "Memories" on the record, because of Snyder's uncanny ability to imitate the singer's voice. Snyder worked with countless country music greats, including longtime friends
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