1. Jimmy Norman wrote the expanded lyrics of the song "Time Is on My Side", which became a hit for The Rolling Stones and was later re-recorded and produced by Stephen Vanderbilt featuring "St Tropez" as the A side of a 45 released from the album Home throughout Europe.
Jimmy Norman composed a number of songs performed by well-known musicians including Johnny Nash and Bob Marley.
Jimmy Norman was recording independently, releasing a solo album in 1998, the same year poor health forced him to retire from performance.
Jimmy Norman performed in the Manhattan area until shortly before his death.
James Jimmy Norman Scott was born on August 12,1937, in Nashville, Tennessee.
Jimmy Norman relocated to California as a teenager, beginning his career as a touring musician throughout the Midwest and southern regions of the United States before settling in New York City.
In 1968, Jimmy Norman was visited by a young Bob Marley in his Bronx apartment.
Jimmy Norman had at that time written a number of songs for Johnny Nash, whose record label had just signed Marley, and Marley wanted to learn more about rhythm and blues.
Jimmy Norman suffered multiple heart attacks and respiratory disease which restricted him, impoverished, to his home in Manhattan.
Producer Kerryn Tolhurst recorded Jimmy Norman performing the songs on a tape recorder in his apartment, taking the tapes into the studio later to add parts by other musicians.
The project, titled Little Pieces, is the first album Jimmy Norman has ever released with wide distribution.
Jimmy Norman died on November 8,2011, in New York City after a long illness.
Jimmy Norman had held his last public performance on October 29,2011, for the Jazz Foundation of America.