Jack Nance

American musician (drums, trumpet, guitar) and songwriter, born April 22, 1935 in Newport, Arkansas; died April 7, 2000 in Nashville, Texas (lung cancer). Started his career playing with [a=Sonny Burgess], and joined childhood friend [a=Conway Twitty]'s band in 1958. Together with Twitty he wrote "It's Only Make Believe". He left Twitty's band to go on tour with [a=Roy Orbison] in 1960.

Subsequently, Nance worked as an agent, promoter and road manager for variety of artists, including [a=Sonny & Cher], [a=The Moody Blues], [a=Elvis Presley] and [a=The Temptations]. Father of [a4234363].