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Jones Country
''Jones Country'' is an album by American country music artist George Jones released in 1983 on the Epic Records label. Background The album's name was taken from an outdoor music park operated and owned by Jones in Texas near his birthplace between the years of 1983 through 1988 prior to his and his wife's return to the Nashville, Tennessee area in 1989. Jones had operated several similar country music themed parks over the years, beginning with the short lived George Jones Rhythm Ranch in 1966 and then the Old Plantation Music Park in Lakeland, Florida in the early seventies when he'd been married to Tammy Wynette. Jones had also opened two Possum Holler Clubs in Nashville in 1967 and 1975. As he later recalled in his 1996 autobiography ''I Lived To Tell It All'', one of benefits of the Jones Country park was that it took his mind off his drinking problem, which he was trying to kick: "Returning to Texas helped me stop drinking for a while. I went on a sobriety binge...Worki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Jones
George Glenn Jones (September 12, 1931 – April 26, 2013) was an American country musician, singer, and songwriter. He achieved international fame for his long list of hit records, including his best-known song "He Stopped Loving Her Today", as well as his distinctive voice and phrasing. For the last two decades of his life, Jones was frequently referred to as the greatest living country singer. Country music scholar Bill Malone writes, "For the two or three minutes consumed by a song, Jones immerses himself so completely in its lyrics, and in the mood it conveys, that the listener can scarcely avoid becoming similarly involved." The shape of his nose and facial features earned Jones the nickname "The Possum". Jones has been called and had more than 160 chart singles to his name from 1955 until his death in 2013. Born in Texas, Jones first heard country music when he was seven, and was given a guitar at the age of nine. His earliest influences were Roy Acuff and Bill Monroe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radio Lover (song)
"Radio Lover" is a murder ballad written by Curly Putman, Ron Hellard, and Bucky Jones and recorded by American country music artist George Jones. Although originally recorded for his 1983 studio album ''Jones Country'', it was released as the fourth single from his 1989 studio album '' One Woman Man''. Background "Radio Lover" is a murder ballad, playing on a recurring theme in country music: A husband who is frequently absent, the wife becoming unfaithful (due to loneliness and desperation for physical intimacy), the husband returning home unannounced to find his wife in the arms of another man and - in a fit of rage - killing both his wife and the man who was with her. In "Radio Lover", the murderer is a disc jockey who works an evening shift. Despite assuring his wife on-air that he loves her, she turns to another man to meet her sexual needs. Then one night, he pre-records his show and decides to surprise her on their first anniversary. The song's recitation explains that th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beasley Smith
John Beasley Smith (September 27, 1901 – May 14, 1968)William F. Lee, ''American Big Bands'' (Hal Leonard Corporation, 2005) p50 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 toured the nation with his group, "Beasley Smith and His Orchestra". Biography Beasley Smith was born in McEwen, Tennessee. His parents were teachers. The family moved to Nashville when he was in elementary school. While in high school at Hume-Fogg in downtown Nashville, he formed an instrumental duo with fellow piano prodigy Francis Craig. They were later roommates at Vanderbilt University. Smith left college after two years to become a musician. He formed his first band around 1922, and by 1925 the ''Beasley Smith Orchestra'' was entertaining regularly at the Andrew Jackson Hotel in downtown Nashville. From 1927-1933, the group toured nationally. On October ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wayne Kemp
Wayne Kemp (June 11, 1940 – March 9, 2015) was an American country music singer-songwriter. He recorded between 1964 and 1986 for JAB Records, Decca, MCA, United Artists, Mercury and Door Knob Records, and charted twenty-four singles on the Hot Country Songs charts. His highest-peaking single was "Honky Tonk Wine", which peaked at No. 17 in 1973. The song is included on his second studio album, ''Kentucky Sunshine'', which reached No. 25 on Top Country Albums. Kemp was born, one of nine children, to a musical family in Greenwood, Arkansas. His parents played several instruments and encouraged their children to sing and harmonize together. When Wayne was six, the family moved to Muldrow, Oklahoma, and soon he was performing in church and at local events. By the age of 16, he was writing songs and playing guitar professionally with Tulsa country star Benny Ketchum. Kemp's first break came in 1965, when a friend passed his demo tape to George Jones. The singer liked the guit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orville Couch
Orville Couch (February 21, 1935 – May 26, 2002) was an American country music singer. He recorded one studio album for Vee Jay Records in 1963, in addition to appearing on radio shows. The album produced two singles on the ''Billboard A billboard (also called a hoarding in the UK and many other parts of the world) is a large outdoor advertising structure (a billing board), typically found in high-traffic areas such as alongside busy roads. Billboards present large advertise ...'' country music charts: "Hello Trouble" at No. 5 and "Did I Miss You?" at No. 25. Couch died in 2002 of acute limphoblastic leukemia. Discography Singles Album *''Hello Trouble'' (Vee-Jay, 1964) References 1935 births 2002 deaths American country singer-songwriters Singer-songwriters from Texas Charay Records artists Vee-Jay Records artists 20th-century American singers Country musicians from Texas {{US-country-singer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hello Trouble (song)
"Hello Trouble" is a song written by Orville Couch and Eddie McDuff and was recorded by Couch in 1962. Couch's version made number 5 on the country charts that year, via Vee-Jay Records. Buck Owens and the Buckaroos also covered the song on the album '' Together Again'', released in 1964. This version was later included on the soundtrack to ''Crazy Heart'' in 2009. LaWanda Lindsey covered the song in 1974 for Capitol Records. Her version charted at number 62. It was then recorded by American country music group The Desert Rose Band and released in July 1989 as the fourth and final single from the album, ''Running''. The song reached #11 on both the ''Billboard'' Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart and the Canadian ''RPM'' Country Tracks chart. The Desert Rose Band version features Herb Pedersen Herbert Joseph Pedersen (born April 27, 1944 in Berkeley, California) is an American musician, guitarist, banjo player, and singer-songwriter who has played a variety of musical styl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Potter (musician)
Brian August Potter is a British-born American pop music songwriter and record producer. With his writing partner, Dennis Lambert, Potter wrote and produced hits songs for the Four Tops, Tavares, the Grass Roots, Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds, Evie Sands, Coven, Hall and Oates, and Glen Campbell. Potter and Lambert were nominated for a Grammy Award for their production on ''Rhinestone Cowboy''. Career Hailing from Billericay in Essex, England, Potter began his music career in the 1960s in London. In 1969, while Dennis Lambert was in London, the two met, with Potter eventually moving to the U.S. to begin their songwriting partnership. By 1972, they were both working for ABC Dunhill Records in Los Angeles, California, who had signed the Four Tops, after the group's decision to leave Motown Records. Lambert and Potter changed the group's sound to a West Coast R&B style, then wrote and produced the ''Keeper of the Castle'' album. Their writing credits on the album included the top- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dennis Lambert
Dennis Earle Lambert (born 1947 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American musician, songwriter and record producer. Career Lambert began his music career in 1960 when he signed to Capitol Records as a recording artist. By the mid-1960s, he was writing and producing for other artists. Among his earliest work with his first main collaborator Lou Courtney were songs for Freddie & the Dreamers, Lorraine Ellison, Jerry Butler and Jerry Lee Lewis. In 1965, Lambert joined the A&R staff of Mercury Records where he was mentored by Quincy Jones and Shelby Singleton, before joining Don Costa at DCP Records, where he ran the label's A&R department, producing and writing songs. After a spell in the US Army during the Vietnam War, he moved to Los Angeles in 1968 and the following year, forged a successful 11-year working collaboration with young British songwriter-musician Brian Potter after the two met while Lambert was in London in 1969. Lambert and Potter joined a new record label in Lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dream On (The Righteous Brothers Song)
"Dream On" is a song written by Dennis Lambert and Brian Potter. In 1974, The Righteous Brothers had a hit version, reaching No. 32 on the Billboard Hot 100, and No. 6 on the U.S. and Canadian Adult Contemporary charts. Bill Medley and Bobby Hatfield alternate lead vocals. Critical reception ''Billboard'' described it as "a powerful ballad" that is "reminiscent in parts of some of the Righteous Brothers earlier Phil Spector material" and praised the vocal performance. Chart performance The Oak Ridge Boys recording In 1979, the song was recorded by American country music group The Oak Ridge Boys. It was released as the third single from their album ''The Oak Ridge Boys Have Arrived''. This is the Oak Ridge Boys' only single to prominently feature bass singer Richard Sterban on lead vocals. The song spent thirteen weeks within the top 40 of the Hot Country Songs charts and peaked at number seven. In Canada, the song spent three weeks at the number one position on the ''RPM ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Curly Putman
Curly is a surname, given name, nickname or stage name. It may refer to: First name, nickname or stage name * Crazy Horse (1840–1877), Oglala Sioux war chief nicknamed "Curly" * Curly (scout), nickname of Ashishishe (c. 1856–1923), Crow Indian scout for General Custer * Paul Carlyle Curly Armstrong (1918-1983), American basketball player * Curly Bill Brocius, nickname of William Brocius (c. 1845-1882), American Old West gunman and outlaw * Charles Roy Curly Brown (1888-1968), American Major League Baseball pitcher * Harold Lee Curly Chalker (1931-1998), American country and jazz musician * Robert F. Curly Clement (1919 – 2006), American baseball umpire * Curly Ray Cline (1923-1997), American bluegrass fiddler * Curly, nickname of George Andrew Davis Jr. (1920-1952), American World War II and Korean War flying ace * Curly Joe DeRita, Three Stooges persona of Joseph Wardell, whose stage name was Joe DeRita (1909 – 1993), American actor and comedian * Clarence T. "Curly" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Musicor Records
Musicor Records was a New York City-based record label, active during the 1960s and 1970s. The label was founded by songwriter Aaron Schroeder and distributed by United Artists Records. In 1965, UA employee and A&R man Arthur Talmadge (a co-founder of Mercury Records years earlier) started his own Talmadge Productions company and, along with fellow UA employee/A&R man Harold "Pappy" Daily, bought the Musicor label from UA. The Musicor catalog is today owned by Gusto Records. Subsidiary and reissue labels After Art Talmadge bought the Musicor label, he formed two budget subsidiary labels (MusicVoice and Music Disc/MusicO) as well as two short-lived commercial subsidiaries, Ariel and Dynamo. Reissued singles were released under the Musicor Startime Series label. Best-selling artists Musicor's best-selling artists ran the gamut of genres. The label's most successful artist was pop star Gene Pitney, who gave Musicor its biggest hits with " It Hurts to Be in Love" and " Only ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Anderson (album)
''John Anderson'' is the debut studio album by American country music artist John Anderson. It was released in 1980 on the Warner Bros. Records label. The album produced the singles "The Girl at the End of the Bar", "Low Dog Blues", "1959", "She Just Started Liking Cheatin' Songs", "If There Were No Memories" and "Your Lying Blue Eyes". Track listing Personnel * Tommy Allsup - acoustic guitar * John Anderson - lead vocals, background vocals * Phil Baugh - electric guitar * Harold Bradley - six string bass guitar * David Briggs - piano * Tommy Cogbill Thomas Clark Cogbill (April 8, 1932 – December 7, 1982) was an American bassist, guitarist and record producer known for his work in R&B, soul and country music. Life and career Cogbill was born in Johnson Grove, Tennessee. He was a high ... - bass guitar * Pete Drake - steel guitar * Ray Edenton - electric guitar * Ralph Gallant (Larrie Londin) - drums * Tommy Jackson (musician), Tommy Jackson - fiddle * Terry McMilla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
