Johnny Tillotson has been played on NTS in shows including Lavender Kite Audio Research Hour w/ Barnaby Bennett, featured first on 28 January 2013. Songs played include Poetry In Motion and Cling To Me.

Johnny Tillotson (born 20 April 1938 in Jacksonville, Florida, USA) is an American singer and songwriter. He enjoyed his greatest success in the early 1960s, when he scored 9 top-ten hits on the pop, country and adult contemporary billboard charts including "Poetry In Motion" and the self-penned "It Keeps Right On A-Hurtin'".

In 1957 while still in high school, Tillotson was making records and performing on stage; as a student at…