Troy Shondell

In April 1961, Troy Shondell recorded “This Time”, a song written by Chips Moman and first recorded by Thomas Wayne. The record was released during the last week in June on the tiny Gaye label and picked up by the small Los Angeles Goldcrest label, selling ten thousand copies during the first week. Six weeks after being released and played in Chicago, Shondell flew to Los Angeles and signed with Liberty Records. “This Time” finally hit the Billboard charts the third week of September and landed in the Top 10 five weeks later at its number six peak, and it stayed in the charts for a total of thirteen weeks. The track reached no. 22 in the UK Singles Chart at the end of that year.

“Tears From An Angel” was his follow-up recording. It was released in December 1961, debuting on the Billboard Hot 100 at #96 on the week ending December 31, 1961 and it would peak at #77 on the Billboard Hot 100 on the week ending February 3, 1962. No further chart action was forthcoming, and Shondell quietly slipped away from the music industry the following year, despite his third single “Na-Ne-No”, being produced by Phil Spector.

In 1968, Shondell became a songwriter for Acuff-Rose Music in Nashville, Tennessee, and the first recording artist for TRX Records, a branch of Hickory Records, for whom Shondell recorded some gramophone record discs until 1969, when he went into the music publishing field. In October 1969, Shondell was appointed as Assistant Regional Director for ASCAP’s Southern Regional Office in Nashville.

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