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Showcase (Kitty Wells Album)
''Showcase'' is an album recorded by Kitty Wells and released in 1968 on the Decca label (DL 4961). In the United Kingdom, it was released by MCA Records with the title ''My Big Truck Drivin' Man''. The album's title track, "My Big Truck Drivin' Man", was Wells' final top 40 hit, peaking at No. 35 on the ''Billboard'' country chart. Track listing Side A # "My Big Truck Drivin' Man" (Hank Mills) :25# "If My Heart Had Windows" (Dallas Frazier) :18# "This World Holds Nothing" :35# "You Want Her Not Me" (Jim Anglin) :28# "What Locks the Door" (Vic McAlpin) :05# "Truck Driver's Sweetheart" (Jim Anglin) :15 Side B # "Hangin' On" (Ira Allen, Billy Mize) :34# " Burning a Hole in My Mind" (Cy Coben) :17# "The Chokin' Kind" (Harlan Howard) :31# "I Don't Wanna Play House" (Billy Sherrill, Glenn Sutton Royce Glenn Sutton (September 28, 1937 – April 17, 2007) was an American country music singer-songwriter, record producer, and one of the architects of the countrypolitan sound. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kitty Wells
Ellen Muriel Deason (August 30, 1919 – July 16, 2012), known professionally as Kitty Wells, was an American pioneering female country music singer. She broke down a barrier for women in country music with her 1952 hit recording " It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels", which also made her the first female country singer to top the U.S. country charts and turned her into the first female country superstar. “It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels” would also be her first of several pop crossover hits. Wells is the only artist to be awarded top female vocalist awards for 14 consecutive years. Her chart-topping hits continued until the mid-1960s, paving the way for and inspiring a long list of female country singers who came to prominence in the 1960s. Wells ranks as the sixth most successful female vocalist in the history of the ''Billboard'' country charts, according to historian Joel Whitburn's book ''The Top 40 Country Hits''. In 1976, she was inducted into the Count ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Country Music
Country (also called country and western) is a popular music, music genre originating in the southern regions of the United States, both the American South and American southwest, the Southwest. First produced in the 1920s, country music is primarily focused on singing Narrative, stories about Working class in the United States, working-class and blue-collar worker, blue-collar American life. Country music is known for its ballads and dance tunes (i.e., "Honky-tonk#Music, honky-tonk music") with simple form, folk lyrics, and harmonies generally accompanied by instruments such as banjos, fiddles, harmonicas, and many types of guitar (including acoustic guitar, acoustic, electric guitar, electric, steel guitar, steel, and resonator guitar, resonator guitars). Though it is primarily rooted in various forms of American folk music, such as old-time music and Appalachian music, many other traditions, including African-American, Music of Mexico, Mexican, Music of Ireland, Irish, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Decca Records
Decca Records is a British record label established in 1929 by Edward Lewis (Decca), Edward Lewis after his acquisition of a gramophone manufacturer, The Decca Gramophone Company. It set up an American subsidiary under the Decca name, which became an independent company just before the Second World War. The American spin-off became a subsidiary of MCA Inc. in 1962. Known for its technical innovations, the British parent company grew to become the second most successful recording company in Britain and celebrated fifty years of existence in 1979, shortly before being sold to PolyGram. Both Decca and its former subsidiary were subsequently acquired by Universal Music. Decca and its American spin-off both built up strong catalogues of popular music. In their first two decades their artists included Gertrude Lawrence, George Formby, Jack Hylton and Vera Lynn in Britain and Bing Crosby, Al Jolson, the Andrews Sisters and the Mills Brothers in the US. Later performers in their popular ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Queen Of Honky Tonk Street
''Queen of Honky Tonk Street'' is an album recorded by Kitty Wells and released in 1967 on the Decca label (DL 4929) in the United States and on the Calendar Records label (SR66-9640) in Australia. The album's title track, "Queen of Honky Tonk Street", was one of Wells' final hits, peaking at No. 28 on the ''Billboard'' country chart. Thom Owens of AllMusic noted that Wells' "gutsy voice" made it worth hearing though the production was "a bit too heavy" for Wells' honky tonk inclinations. Track listing Side A # "Queen of Honky Tonk Street" (Jim Anglin) :42# "Walk Through This World with Me" (Kay Savage, Sandra Seamons) :16# "If I Kiss You (Will You Go Away?)" (Liz Anderson) :16# "Wasting My Time" (Jim Anglin) :38# "Need You" (John Blackburn, Teepee Mitchell, Lewis Porter) :23# "Just Beyond the Moon" (Jeremy Slate) :01 Side B # "Cincinnati, Ohio" (Bill Anderson) :01# "All the Time" (Mel Tillis, Wayne Walker) :18# "I Can't Get There from Here" (Dallas Frazier) :14# "It's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
We'll Stick Together
''We'll Stick Together'' is both a single and an album of duets between Kitty Wells and her husband Johnny Wright. Both were released in 1968 on the Decca label. The song The single was a duet between Wells and Wright. Sources are in conflict as to whether the song was written by their son, Bobby Wright, or by Bill Phillips. The single was released by Decca in May 1968 with "Heartbreak Waltz" as the "A" side. At the time, ''Billboard'' wrote: "First disk duet for the husband and wife team should fast prove sales giant. Two equally potent sides." Though Wells and Wright were one of the best known couples in country music, ''We'll Stick Together'' was the only record on which they charted together. The song was later rated as one of the two best duets between Wells and Wright. The song was one of Wells' final hit singles, as the years after 1968 brought a "long dry spell" as a crossover style dominated the country chats and Wells asked to be released from her "life-time" contract ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dallas Frazier
Dallas Frazier (October 27, 1939 – January 14, 2022) was an American country musician and songwriter who had success in the 1950s and 1960s. Life and career Frazier was born in Spiro, Oklahoma, on October 27, 1939, but was raised in Bakersfield, California. As a teenager, he played with Ferlin Husky and on the program '' Hometown Jamboree''; and released his first single, "Space Command", at age 14 in 1954. As he told writer Edd Hurt in a 2008 profile for the music website Perfect Sound Forever, "We were part of ''The Grapes of Wrath''. We were the Okies who went out to California with mattresses tied on the tops of their Model A Fords. My folks were poor. At twelve I moved away from home, with my folks' permission. Ferlin uskyoffered me a job, and I started working with him when I was twelve. Then I recorded a side for Capitol Records when I was fourteen, and I did some country. I cut in the big circular building that's still out there on Hollywood and Vine." Frazier's 195 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burning A Hole In My Mind
"Burning a Hole in My Mind" is a single by American country music artist Connie Smith. Released in September 1967, the song reached #5 on the ''Billboard'' Hot Country Singles chart. The single was later released on Smith's 1968 album entitled '' I Love Charley Brown''. The song was written by songwriter Cy Coben Seymour "Cy" Coben (4 April 1919 – 26 May 2006) was an American songwriter whose hits were recorded by bandleaders, country singers, and other artists such as The Beatles, Tommy Cooper and Leonard Nimoy. Biography Early life Coben was born i .... Chart performance References {{authority control 1967 singles Connie Smith songs Song recordings produced by Bob Ferguson (musician) Songs written by Cy Coben 1967 songs RCA Victor singles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cy Coben
Seymour "Cy" Coben (4 April 1919 – 26 May 2006) was an American songwriter whose hits were recorded by bandleaders, country singers, and other artists such as The Beatles, Tommy Cooper and Leonard Nimoy. Biography Early life Coben was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, United States, the youngest son of Harris ("Harry") Cohen and Nettie Brandt Cohen, and was originally named Seymour. His father was a wholesale meat supplier in New York City. Coben learned to play the trumpet and studied at a local music academy. In 1942 he had his first charting song with "My Little Cousin", which Benny Goodman's orchestra and vocalist Peggy Lee took to No. 14. Coben spent the next several years in the Navy, serving in the South Pacific as a pharmacist's mate. On his return in 1946, he resumed his song writing career. He wrote "A Good Woman's Love" for his wife Shirley Nagel, whom he married in 1948. Post-war career In 1947, Coben wrote a novelty song called "(When You See) Those Flying Saucers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harlan Howard
Harlan Perry Howard (September 8, 1927 – March 3, 2002) was an American songwriter, principally in country music. In a career spanning six decades, Howard is credited with writing more than 4,000 songs, over 100 of which reached country music's Top 10. Career Howard was born on September 8, 1927, in Detroit, Michigan, and grew up on a farm in Michigan. As a child, he listened to the Grand Ole Opry radio show. In later years, Howard recalled the personal formative influence of country music: I was captured by the songs as much as the singer. They grabbed my heart. The reality of country music moved me. Even when I was a kid, I liked the sad songs… songs that talked about true life. I recognized this music as a simple plea. It beckoned me.Retrieved 2019-03-09. Howard completed only nine years of formal education, though he was an avid reader. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Don't Wanna Play House
"I Don't Wanna Play House" is a song written by Billy Sherrill and Glenn Sutton. In 1967, the song was Tammy Wynette's first number one country song as a solo artist. "I Don't Wanna Play House" spent three weeks at the top spot and a total of eighteen weeks on the chart. The recording earned Wynette the 1968 Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance. The song was released in the UK in 1976 and made the Top 40. Content In the song, the narrator, a young mother whose husband has left her, overhears her daughter describing to a neighborhood boy their broken home, and informing him that she doesn't want to play house since, after observing her parents' troubles, she knows that it cannot be fun. Chart performance Barbara Ray versions In 1973, South African singer Barbara Ray recorded a version that was a number-one hit in her home country as well as a top 10 hit in Australia, reaching No. 3 later in the year. Her version was South Africa's highest-selling sin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy Sherrill
Billy Norris Sherrill (November 5, 1936 – August 4, 2015) was an American record producer, songwriter, and arranger associated with country artists, notably Tammy Wynette and George Jones. Sherrill and business partner Glenn Sutton are regarded as the defining influences of the countrypolitan sound, a smooth amalgamation of pop and country music that was popular during the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s. Sherrill also co-wrote many hit songs, including " Stand by Your Man" (written with Tammy Wynette) and "The Most Beautiful Girl" (written with Rory Bourke and Norro Wilson). Early years Born in the town of Phil Campbell, Alabama, in 1936, the son of an evangelical preacher, Sherrill was attracted to jazz and blues music, learning to play the piano and, in his teens, the saxophone. During his teenage years, he led a jump blues band, and toured the southern states playing in R&B and rock 'n' roll bands. He signed a solo record deal with a small independent label, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glenn Sutton
Royce Glenn Sutton (September 28, 1937 – April 17, 2007) was an American country music singer-songwriter, record producer, and one of the architects of the countrypolitan sound. Biography Sutton was born in Hodge, Louisiana, and grew up in Chireno, Texas. He began writing songs at an early age, and moved to Henderson, where Jim Reeves was an announcer on local AM radio station KGRI. At the age of 16 Sutton began hosting a 15 minute show on Saturdays at the station. While serving in the United States Air Force he formed a band, and when he left the service he continued to perform while working other jobs. In 1964, he moved to Nashville and signed with music publisher Al Gallico Music. In 1965, Sutton wrote the title track for Eddy Arnold's 1965 album '' The Easy Way'', and the song was included as the B-Side of Arnold's hit version of " Make the World Go Away". Sutton eventually began collaborating with Billy Sherrill, and together they wrote " Almost Persuaded", which beca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
