James William Gilreath (November 14, 1936 – September 7, 2003) was an American pop singer and songwriter, whose single "Little Band of Gold" went to #21 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1963. == Career == Gilreath was born in Una, Clay County, near Prairie, Mississippi, and began his musical career in the early 1960s as a member of a local area band named 'The Nite-Liters', who recorded an instrumental record entitled "Nervous" in 1962 on the Vee Eight... [more on Wikipedia]