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Johnny Tillotson, ‘Poetry in Motion’ Singer, Dead at 86

Johnny Tillotson, the chart-topping singer behind the Sixties hit "Poetry in Motion," has died at the age of 86.

The Grammy-nominated singer also released Sixties hit "It Keeps Right on A-Hurtin," which was covered by Elvis Presley, Dean Martin, Bobby Darin and Wanda Jackson “It is with a broken heart that I write to let you know that the sweetest, kindest man I ever met Johnny Tillotson , left earth for Heaven yesterday,” she wrote in a caption alongside a photo of the two together. Tillotson, a native from Jacksonville, Florida shot to fame with his 1961 track “Poetry in Motion,” which reached Number Two on the Billboard Hot 100.

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