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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 "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 w ... [...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 to 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 Country ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Country Music
Country (also called country and western) is a genre of popular music that originated in the Southern and Southwestern United States in the early 1920s. It primarily derives from blues, church music such as Southern gospel and spirituals, old-time, and American folk music forms including Appalachian, Cajun, Creole, and the cowboy Western music styles of Hawaiian, New Mexico, Red Dirt, Tejano, and Texas country. Country music often consists of ballads and honky-tonk dance tunes with generally simple form, folk lyrics, and harmonies often accompanied by string instruments such as electric and acoustic guitars, steel guitars (such as pedal steels and dobros), banjos, and fiddles as well as harmonicas. Blues modes have been used extensively throughout its recorded history. The term ''country music'' gained popularity in the 1940s in preference to ''hillbilly music'', with "country music" being used today to describe many styles and subgenres. It came to encompas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Decca Records
Decca Records is a British record label established in 1929 by Edward Lewis. Its U.S. label was established in late 1934 by Lewis, Jack Kapp, American Decca's first president, and Milton Rackmil, who later became American Decca's president. In 1937, anticipating Nazi aggression leading to World War II, Lewis sold American Decca and the link between the U.K. and U.S. Decca labels was broken for several decades. The British label was renowned for its development of recording methods, while the American company developed the concept of cast albums in the musical genre. Both wings are now part of the Universal Music Group. The U.S. Decca label was the foundation company that evolved into UMG (Universal Music Group). Label name The name dates back to a portable gramophone called the "Decca Dulcephone" patented in 1914 by musical instrument makers Barnett Samuel and Sons. The name "Decca" was coined by Wilfred S. Samuel by merging the word "Mecca" with the initial D of their log ... [...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' ... [...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" contra ... [...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 1 ... [...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 .... 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 Sau ... [...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 wrote many popular and enduring songs, recorded by a variety of different artists. 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 ... [...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 best known for his association 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 Phil Campbell, Alabama, United States in 1936, the son of an evangelical preacher, Sherrill was initially 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 de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glenn Sutton
Royce Glenn Sutton (September 28, 1937 – April 17, 2007) was an American country music songwriter, record producer, and one of the architects of the ''countrypolitan'' sound. Biography Sutton wrote or co-wrote many of Tammy Wynette's early hits including, " Your Good Girl's Gonna Go Bad", " Take Me to Your World" (which would be the last song Wynette ever sang in concert before her death in 1998), "I Don't Wanna Play House, "The Ways to Love a Man", "Kids Say the Darndest Things", and " Bedtime Story". He also wrote the song " What's Made Milwaukee Famous (Has Made a Loser Out of Me)" (recorded by Jerry Lee Lewis, Rod Stewart, and Lynn Anderson), as well as the David Houston classic "Almost Persuaded". Sutton won a Grammy Award for the latter composition. "Almost Persuaded" has been covered by artists from all genres of music, including R&B legend Etta James. He also sang his own hit called "The Football Card" which nearly made the top forty on the Billboard Hot 100. Sutton ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
