Sanford Clark

Sanford Clark (October 24, 1935 – July 4, 2021)[1] was an American country-rockabilly singer and guitarist, best known for his 1956 hit "The Fool".

He spent time in the Air Force in the South Pacific; he formed a band there which won a talent show in Hawaii.

[2] Returning to Phoenix, he and his friend Al Casey met Lee Hazlewood, then a local DJ.

Dot Records picked the song up for national distribution after a Philadelphia deejay tipped them off to it.

On July 4 2021 Clark's publicist and fellow performer, Johnny Vallis, said that Clark died at Mercy Hospital in Joplin, Missouri, where he had been receiving cancer treatment before contracting COVID-19 amidst the COVID-19 pandemic in Missouri, according to NewsTalk KZRG radio.