Jack Scott (born Giovanni Dominico Scafone Jr., January 24, 1936), is an American singer and songwriter. He was the first white national rock and roll star to come out of Detroit, Michigan.

Jack Scott was born on 24 January 1936 in Windsor, Ontario, in Canada. When he was in his teens he moved with his family to Detroit and began writing songs. At the age of 19 he showed sufficient flair as a songwriter to land a contract with a music publisher, which led to him signing with ABC Records as a performer. Although he cut a few singles none made much impression. At ABC, Scott met producer Joe Carlton, who left the company in 1958 and set up his own label, Carlton. Scott went with him.

He later recalled how he had recorded two of his songs, "Leroy" and "My True Love," at his own expense. "I took them to a distribution outlet I knew and they didn't really care for them, but there was someone else there at the time who heard them and encouraged me to let them have the tape. Next thing I knew I'd signed a contract, and 'Leroy' took off like lightning."

The two songs were released back-to-back on Carlton and the record became a double-sided smash, selling more than a million copies. "My True Love" hit Number 3 in Billboard's Hot Hundred and made the Top Ten in Britain. "With Your Love" made Number 28 in the US later that year, He served in the United States Army during most of 1959, just after "Goodbye Baby" made the Top Ten. Single releases on the Carlton label continued, including “I Never Felt Like This”. It had a haunting ballad on the B-side, "Bella”. "The Way I Walk." was a Top Forty hit that Robert Gordon revived in 1978.

Jack transferred to the new Top Rank label in 1959 and scored another huge success in the New Year with "What In The World's Come Over You." The song gave Scott his second gold disc, reaching Number 5 in the USA and Number 6 in the UK. Further successes followed - "Burning Bridges" (Number 3), "Cool Water"/"It Only Happened Yesterday" - but Scott was by then being steered towards a mainstream country style.

In 1961 Scott moved to Capitol where he cut three Hot Hundred Hits during the year before disappearing from the charts altogether. Because the two companies that issued his best records have long ceased business he has never been able to trace all the original master tapes of his songs nor be totally sure of his rights to them.

Since his years in the limelight, Scott has kept on playing and singing. "I do club dates around Michigan, staying pretty close to home most of the time. I've never had a job outside music ... Sometimes I play the same club five nights a week. It's usually 40 minutes on stage then a 20-minute break, and so on for five hours." In 2001, on Hemsby weekender he was brillant, rockin' the crowds as he did in the 50's.
 

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