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Ain't Had No Lovin'
"Ain't Had No Lovin'" is a single by American country music artist Connie Smith. Released in May 1966, the song reached #2 on the ''Billboard'' Hot Country Singles Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by ''Billboard'' magazine in the United States. This 50-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly by collecting airplay data from Nielsen BDS along with digital sal ... chart. The single was later issued onto Smith's second album of the year, '' Born to Sing''. Chart performance References {{authority control 1966 singles Connie Smith songs Songs written by Dallas Frazier Song recordings produced by Bob Ferguson (musician) 1966 songs RCA Victor singles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Connie Smith
Connie Smith (born Constance June Meador; August 14, 1941) is an American country music singer and songwriter. Her contralto vocals have been described by music writers as significant and influential to the women of country music. A similarity has been noted between her vocal style and the stylings of country vocalist Patsy Cline. Other performers have cited Smith as influence on their own singing styles, which has been reflected in quotes and interviews over the years. Discovered in 1963, Smith signed with RCA Victor Records the following year and remained with the label until 1973. Her debut single "Once a Day" was nominated at the Grammy Awards for Best Female Country Vocal Performance and reached number one on the '' Billboard'' Hot Country Songs chart in November 1964 and remained at the top position for eight weeks, the first time a female artist had achieved this feat, with Smith holding the record for over 50 years until it was broken by Trisha Yearwood. The song became S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Born To Sing (Connie Smith Album)
''Born to Sing'' is the fifth studio album by American country singer Connie Smith. It was released in September 1966 via RCA Victor Records and contained 12 tracks. The album was her first to include string instrumentation. It reached the top five of the ''Billboard'' Country LP's chart and included the single "Ain't Had No Lovin'". Background In 1964, Connie Smith emerged with the number one single titled "Once a Day". The song jump started her career and helped bring the singles "Then and Only Then" and "If I Talk to Him" into the country top ten. During the mid 1960s, country music record producers saw potential to expand into pop markets. They encouraged several artists to record music tailored in this direction. RCA Victor producers Chet Atkins and Bob Ferguson (the latter was Smith's producer) saw crossover potential in her music. In 1966, they organized Smith's sessions for her next album to be recorded with more pop influences. Ferguson brought in arranger Bill Walker to ... [...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 encomp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RCA Victor
RCA Records is an American record label currently owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America. It is one of Sony Music's four flagship labels, alongside RCA's former long-time rival Columbia Records; also Arista Records, and Epic Records. The label has released multiple genres of music, including pop, classical, rock, hip hop, afrobeat, electronic, R&B, blues, jazz, and country. Its name is derived from the initials of its defunct parent company, the Radio Corporation of America (RCA). RCA Records was fully acquired by Bertelsmann in 1987, making it a part of Bertelsmann Music Group (BMG) and became a part of Sony BMG Music Entertainment after the 2004 merger of BMG and Sony; it was acquired by the latter in 2008, after the dissolution of Sony/BMG and the restructuring of Sony Music. RCA Records is the corporate successor of the Victor Talking Machine Company, founded in 1901, making it the second-oldest record label in American history, af ... [...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 1957 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Ferguson (music)
Robert Bruce Ferguson (December 30, 1927 – July 22, 2001) was an American country music songwriter and record producer who was instrumental in establishing Nashville, Tennessee as a center of country music. He was also a movie producer, and Choctaw Indian historian. Ferguson is best known for writing the bestselling songs "Wings of a Dove (Bob Ferguson song), On the Wings of a Dove" and "The Carroll County Accident". The "Carroll County Accident" won the Country Music Association Song of the Year in 1969. In 1983 "Wings of a Dove (Bob Ferguson song), Wings of a Dove" was featured in the movie ''Tender Mercies'' starring Robert Duvall. In 1987, Broadcast Music Incorporated (BMI) awarded Ferguson with the "million air" plays for the "Wings of a Dove." The country song "Carroll County Accident", recorded by Porter Wagoner, made No. 2 on the ''Billboard'' country singles chart (No. 92 pop) and No. 1 on the ''Cash Box'' country singles chart. The tune was also recorded by Wago ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nobody But A Fool (Would Love You)
"Nobody But a Fool (Would Love You)" is a song written by Bill Anderson and released as a single by American country artist Connie Smith. It was the second single spawned from her 1966 album ''Miss Smith Goes to Nashville'' and was produced by Bob Ferguson. The single was released in January 1966 by RCA Victor and peaked within the Top 5 on the ''Billboard Magazine'' country music singles chart, becoming her fifth Top 10 hit in a row. Background and content "Nobody But a Fool (Would Love You)" was the fourth single Smith recorded by Bill Anderson. The song was recorded October 14, 1965 along with the songs, "Same as Mine", "I'll Never Get Over Loving You", and "Holdin' On". The recording sessions featured The Nashville A-Team of musicians, including Hargus "Pig" Robbins, Kenneth Buttrey, and Walter Haynes. The song's lyrics describes how a woman is angered how her lover has cheated on her and she angrily says back to him, "nobody but a fool would love you". The song's chorus fu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Hurtin's All Over
"The Hurtin's All Over" is a single by American country music artist Connie Smith. Released in September 1966, the song reached #3 on the ''Billboard'' Hot Country Singles chart. The single was later released on Smith's 1967 album entitled ''Downtown Country''. Wanda Jackson Wanda LaVonne Jackson (born October 20, 1937) is an American singer and songwriter. Since the 1950s, she has recorded and released music in the genres of rock, country and gospel. She was among the first women to have a career in rock and roll, ... covered the song on her 1968 album ''Cream of the Crop''. Chart performance References {{DEFAULTSORT:Hurtin's All Over 1966 singles Connie Smith songs Songs written by Harlan Howard Song recordings produced by Bob Ferguson (musician) 1966 songs RCA Victor singles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billboard (magazine)
''Billboard'' (stylized as ''billboard'') is an American music and entertainment magazine published weekly by Penske Media Corporation. The magazine provides music charts, news, video, opinion, reviews, events, and style related to the music industry. Its music charts include the Hot 100, the 200, and the Global 200, tracking the most popular albums and songs in different genres of music. It also hosts events, owns a publishing firm, and operates several TV shows. ''Billboard'' was founded in 1894 by William Donaldson and James Hennegan as a trade publication for bill posters. Donaldson later acquired Hennegan's interest in 1900 for $500. In the early years of the 20th century, it covered the entertainment industry, such as circuses, fairs, and burlesque shows, and also created a mail service for travelling entertainers. ''Billboard'' began focusing more on the music industry as the jukebox, phonograph, and radio became commonplace. Many topics it covered were spun-off ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hot Country Songs
Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by ''Billboard'' magazine in the United States. This 50-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly by collecting airplay data from Nielsen BDS along with digital sales and streaming. The current number-one song, as of the chart dated December 24, 2022, is "You Proof" by Morgan Wallen. History ''Billboard'' began compiling the popularity of country songs with its January 8, 1944, issue. Only the genre's most popular jukebox selections were tabulated, with the chart titled "Most Played Juke Box Folk Records". For approximately ten years, from 1948 to 1958, ''Billboard'' used three charts to measure the popularity of a given song. In addition to the jukebox chart, these charts included: * The "best sellers" chart – started May 15, 1948, as "Best Selling Retail Folk Records". * An airplay chart – started December 10, 1949, as "Country & Western Records Most Played By Folk Disk Jockeys". The juk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1966 Singles
Events January * January 1 – In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa takes over as military ruler of the Central African Republic, ousting President David Dacko. * January 3 – 1966 Upper Voltan coup d'état: President Maurice Yaméogo is deposed by a military coup in the Republic of Upper Volta (modern-day Burkina Faso). * January 10 ** Pakistani–Indian peace negotiations end successfully with the signing of the Tashkent Declaration, a day before the sudden death of Indian prime minister Lal Bahadur Shastri. ** The House of Representatives of the US state of Georgia refuses to allow African-American representative Julian Bond to take his seat, because of his anti-war stance. ** A Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference convenes in Lagos, Nigeria, primarily to discuss Rhodesia. * January 12 – United States President Lyndon Johnson states that the United States should stay in South Vietnam until Communist aggression there is ended. * January 15 – 1966 Nigeria ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Connie Smith Songs
Connie is a given name. It is often a pet form (hypocorism) of Concetta, Constance, Cornelia, or Cornelius. Given name or nickname Women * Connie Achurra, Chilean chef * Connie Binsfeld (1924–2014), American politician * Connie Booth (born 1944), American actress and writer, former wife of John Cleese * Connie Britton (born 1967), American actress, singer and producer * Connie Brockway (born 1954), American historical and romance novelist * Connie Carpenter-Phinney (born 1957), American retired cyclist and speed skater * Connie Chung (born 1946), American journalist * Constance Clayton (born 1933), American educator and civic leader * Connie Constance (born 1995), British singer and songwriter * Connie Conway (born 1950), American politician * Connie Desmond (1908–1983), American baseball sportscaster * Connie Dierking (1936–2013), American Basketball League and National Basketball Association player * Connie Egan, Northern Irish politician * Connie Fisher (born 1983 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
