Shawn Elliott

Shawn Elliott (February 24, 1937 – March 11, 2016) was an American actor and singer. He is best known for starring in the original cast of Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris onstage and as Paco in the film Short Eyes (1977). Early years Elliott was born Eliezer Santiago Solis in Santurce, Puerto Rico, and grew up in New York City's East Harlem area where he appeared in a community center production of Oklahoma! Singing career Elliott had a #1 hit in Europe and South America with a cover of Sir Lancelot's "Shame And Scandal In The Family" in 1965. The cover failed to chart in America where English comedian Lance Percival's version did. However, Peter Tosh and the Wailers, as well as The Blues Busters, copied the arrangement used by Elliot in preparing their own later covers of the song. Recorded a minor disco hit "Nice and Slow" in 1976. Elliott originally recorded for Roulette Records, before moving with his brother Roland to Atlantic Records in 1968, though none of his later records matched the success of his 1965 hit.