There is more than one artist with this name, including: 1) Tommy Sands is a 1950s American pop music singer and actor.. 2) Tommy Sands is an Irish folk musician 1) Tommy Sands (born Thomas Adrian Sands on 27 August 1937) is an American pop music singer and actor. Working in show business as early as 1949, Sands became an overnight sensation and instant teen idol when he appeared on Kraft Television Theater in January 1957 as "The Singin' Idol". The song from the show, "Teen-Age Crush", reached #2 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and #1 on US Cashbox. 2) Tommy Sands (born 19 December 1945 in Mayobridge, County Down, Northern Ireland) is an Irish folk singer, songwriter, radio broadcaster, and political activist. As well as sole performances, he performs with his three siblings as The Sands Family, one of Ireland's most influential folk groups of the 1960s and 1970s, and with his son and daughter as Tommy Sands with Moya and Fionán Sands. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Tommy+Sands">Read more on Last.fm</a>. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.