WHERE PRE-HISTORY AND POP CULTURE MEET

     Tommy McLain is a swamp pop musician, best known as a singer but who also plays keyboards, drums, bass guitar, and fiddle.  He first began performing in the 1950s, along with country singer Clint West. The two were both members of The Vel-Tones and The Boogie Kings in the 1960s, and they recorded a duet, "Try to Find Another Man", in 1965. He also performed on Dick Clark's Caravan of Stars in the 1960s and DJed at Louisiana radio station, KREH. McLain's greatest fame was with his recording of the song "Sweet Dreams", which hit #15 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1966 and reached #49 in the UK Singles Chart the same year.

     McLain also wrote Freddy Fender's hit single, "If You Don't Love Me Alone (Leave Me Alone)". McLain appears along with the Mule Train Band in the Paul Newman film, The Drowning Pool.

     McLain was featured as a guest artist on an album recorded by Larry Lange and his Lonely Knights of Austin, TX, entitled "Wiggle Room"(2011), which debuts two brand new songs penned by McLain including "Don't Make Me Leave New Orleans", a heart-felt ballad that McLain wrote in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.