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James Jones (June 2, 1930 [1] – August 2, 2012) was an American singer-songwriter who moved to New York City while a teenager. [2] According to Allmusic journalist Steve Huey, "best known for his 1960 R&B smash ' Handy Man ', Jones sang in a smooth yet soulful falsetto modeled on the likes of Clyde McPhatter and Sam Cooke ."
Joseph Guillermo Jones II (born July 15, 1976), [1] better known by his stage name Jim Jones (or Jimmy Jones), is an American rapper, record producer and record executive.He is a founding member of the hip hop collective the Diplomats (also known as Dipset), which he formed in 1997 with fellow Harlem native Cam'ron.
James Warren Jones (May 13, 1931 – November 18, 1978) was an American cult leader and mass murderer who founded and led the Peoples Temple between 1955 and 1978. In what Jones termed "revolutionary suicide", Jones and the members of his inner circle planned and orchestrated a mass murder-suicide in his remote jungle commune at Jonestown, Guyana, on November 18, 1978.
Jones was born in his maternal grandmother's home in Keady, County Armagh, Northern Ireland, the only child of Thomas Jones, a police sergeant, and his wife Ellen (née Wilson). After education at Carrick Primary School and Lurgan Technical College, he served his apprenticeship as a mechanic, while making an impact as a footballer.
In 1983, Jones was presented with what is reported to have been the first gold disc for a comedy album, after his Live from the Talk of East Anglia (1981) achieved 100,000 sales. [6] He was the first stand-up comedian to release a video of his live shows, and in the early 1980s had three videos in the UK top ten . [ 4 ]
Jimmy Jones (rugby league), rugby league footballer of the 1940s and 1950s; Jimmy Jones (tennis) (1912–1986), British tennis player and author; Horace A. Jones (1906–2001), known as Jimmy, U.S. Hall of Fame racehorse trainer; Melvin Nelson, American professional wrestler who competed as Jimmy Jones and Burrhead Jones
Jimmy Jones (born June 23, 1950) is an American former football all-star quarterback in the Canadian Football League (CFL). Jones was a graduate of the University of Southern California (USC). He moved to Canada in 1973, and played for the Montreal Alouettes , Hamilton Tiger-Cats and Ottawa Rough Riders , and helped lead the Alouettes to a Grey ...
"Good Timin '" was a number-one single in the UK Singles Chart during 1960, written by Fred Tobias and Clint Ballard Jr., and performed by Jimmy Jones. [1] In the U.S., the follow-up to "Handy Man" went to number three on Billboard Hot 100 chart and number eight on the R&B chart. [2]