''Song in a Seashell'' is an album by American

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 p ...

singer

Tom T. Hall Thomas Hall (May 25, 1936 – August 20, 2021), known professionally as Tom T. Hall and informally nicknamed "The Storyteller," was an American country music singer-songwriter and short-story author. He wrote 12 number-one hit songs, with 26 more ...

released in 1985 on Mercury Records. The album reached No. 63 on the ''Billboard'' country albums chart, while three of its singles reached the country singles chart, "A Bar with No Beer" (No. 40), "Down in the Florida Keys" (No. 42), and "Love Letters in the Sand" (No. 79).

Track listing

All tracks composed by Tom T. Hall; except where indicated :Side 1 #"

That Lucky Old Sun "That Lucky Old Sun (Just Rolls Around Heaven All Day)" is a 1949 popular song with music by Beasley Smith and words by Haven Gillespie. Background Like "Ol' Man River", its lyrics contrast the toil and intense hardship of the singer's life ...

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Haven Gillespie James Lamont Gillespie (February 6, 1888 – March 14, 1975), known under the pen name Haven Gillespie, was an American Tin Pan Alley composer and lyricist. He was the writer of " You Go to My Head", "Honey", "By the Sycamore Tree", " That Luc ...

Beasley Smith John Beasley Smith (September 27, 1901 – May 14, 1968) was an American composer and big band musician. " That Lucky Old Sun" (1949) one of his better known works, was covered by many well-known artists. He often worked with Haven Gillespie and t ...

) – 2:16 #" A Bar with No Beer" ( Gordon Parsons, Benny Barnes) – 2:52 #"I Have Friends – 2:39 #"A Song in a Seashell" – 2:05 #"Red Sails in the Sunset" (Jimmy Kennedy, Hugh Williams) – 2:50 Side 2 #"Down in the Florida Keys" – 2:46 #"

Love Letters in the Sand "Love Letters in the Sand" is a popular song first published in 1931. It began life as a poem by Nick Kenny. J. Fred Coots read the poem in the New York Daily Mirror, and obtained Kenny's permission to set the poem to music. He went through 4 di ...

" (Fred Coots, Charles Kenny, Nick Kenny) – 2:13 #"This Ain’t Exactly What I Had in Mind" – 3:36 #"Gone Fishin’" (Nick Kenny, Charles Kenny) – 2:31 #"We're All Through Dancing" – 2:51Original album sleeve notes

Musicians

* David Briggs, Hargus "Pig" Robbins - keyboards * Jerry Carrigan, Ron Gannaway - percussion *

Ray Edenton Ray Quarles Edenton (November 3, 1926 – September 21, 2022) was an American guitarist and country music session musician. Early life Ray Edenton was born into a musical family on November 3, 1926, and grew up near Mineral, Virginia. His fi ...

Jerry Kennedy Jerry Glenn Kennedy (born 10 August 1940)Cusic, Don. (1998) "Jerry Kennedy". In ''The Encyclopedia of Country Music''. Paul Kingsbury, ed. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 277–278. is an American record producer, songwriter and guitar pla ...

, Pete Wade,

Chip Young Chip Young (born Jerry Marvin Stembridge, May 19, 1938 – December 20, 2014) was an American session guitarist, and later record producer who worked primarily out of Nashville, Tennessee. Biography Chip Young was born Jerry Marvin Stembridge in ...

- guitar * Weldon Myrick - steel guitar *Mike Leech - bass guitar *George Binkley, John Borg, Roy Christensen, Virginia Christensen, Connie Callopy, Charles Everett, Carl Gorodetzky, Lennie Haight, Lee Larrison, Dennis Molchan, Pamela Sixfin, Mark Tanner, Gary Vanosdale, Stephanie Woolf - strings ( Nashville String Machine) *Bergen White - string arrangements *The Beach Buch - background vocals on "Down in the Florida Keys"

Production

*Produced by Jerry Kennedy *Recorded and Mixed at Young 'Un Sound, Nashville, Tennessee *Engineers: Ron "Snake" Reynolds, assisted by Barry Foy *Mastered at Master Mix, Nashville, Tennessee, by Hank Williams *Album Design: Bill Brunt (Private Eye Studio) *Photography: Scott Bonner & Ron Keith

References

{{Authority control 1985 albums Tom T. Hall albums Albums produced by Jerry Kennedy Mercury Records albums