[1] and gained recognition for his work on the West coast country music scene, leading the house band at North Hollywood's historic Palomino Club.
In recent years, Leon Russell invited Snyder to sing on "He'll Have To Go" for the Legend In My Time: Hank Wilson Vol.
[6][7] Jimmy Snyder was born in 1934 in New Brighton, Pennsylvania and soon moved to Wheeling, West Virginia as a young man, working as a coal miner to support his family.
Toby Stroud and The Blue Mountain Boys enjoyed minor success with their song entitled "Jesse James."
In February 1971, K-Ark merged with B.J.B Records of Hollywood and Snyder had releases in the weeks to follow, along with Tony Booth and Bobby Bakersfield.
[9] 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.
Snyder left California in the 1980s and moved to Nashville, Tennessee, where he played in Printer's Alley, mentoring several aspiring country musicians, including Tim McGraw and Trace Adkins, giving them their first gigs.