''Roses for Mama'' is the fifth

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musician

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(pseudonym for the singer and songwriter Bill Fries), released on

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in 1977 (see

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). The album saw McCall singing several songs that were written by others, as opposed to his previous albums, which were written entirely by himself (credited as Bill Fries) and

Chip Davis Louis F. "Chip" Davis Jr. (born September 5, 1947 in Hamler, Ohio) is the founder and leader of the music group Mannheim Steamroller. Davis composed the music for several C. W. McCall albums, including the hit 1975 song "Convoy (song), Convoy". H ...

. In fact, only three songs were written by the McCall and Davis; these are "I Don't Know (and I Don't Care)", "The Gallopin' Goose" and "Old Glory". "

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's popular 1959 song.

Track listing

# " Roses for Mama" (Johnny Wilson, Gene Dobbins, Wayne Sharpe) – 3:24 # "The Only Light" (Walt Meskell, Tim Martin) – 2:30 # "Livin' Within My Means" (Ron Agnew) – 2:59 # "Watch the Wildwood Flowers" (Agnew) – 2:50 # "Take My Duds to the Junkman" (Agnew) – 2:00 # "The Battle of New Orleans" (

Jimmie Driftwood James Corbitt Morris (June 20, 1907 – July 12, 1998), known professionally as Jimmy Driftwood or Jimmie Driftwood, was an American folk music songwriter and musician, most famous for his songs "The Battle of New Orleans" and "Tennessee Stud" ...

) – 2:50 # "I Don't Know (and I Don't Care)" (Bill Fries, Chip Davis) – 2:50 # "The Gallopin' Goose" (Fries, Davis) – 3:20 # "Night Hawk" (Tom McKeaon, Ron Peterson) – 2:45 # "Old Glory" (Fries, Davis) – 3:47

Personnel

* C. W. McCall – Vocals, Design * Milt Bailey, Ruth Horn, Gary Morris, Sarah Westphalen – Vocals * Chip Davis – Vocals, Drums, Percussion, Producer, Arranger * Ron Agnew – Vocals, Electric Guitar, 6-String * Ron Cooley – Electric Guitar, 6-String, 12-String * Walt Meskell – Electric Guitar, 6-String, Banjo, Dobro * Mark Gorat, Jack Moss – 6-String * Jackson Berkey – Keyboards * Eric Hansen – Bass, Harmonica * Dorothy Brown, Hugh Brown, Miriam Dufflemeyer, Lucinda Gladics, James Hammond, Joe Landes, Beth McCollum, Merton Shatzkin, Alex Sokol – Strings

Additional personnel

* Don Sears – Producer, Engineer, Design * John Boyd, Ron Ubel, Jim Wheeler – Engineers * John Kircher – Photography * Dudycha, Schirck and Associates, Inc. – Art Direction and Production

Charts

Album –

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(North America) Singles – Billboard (North America)

External links

NarrowGauge.org album information for ''Roses for Mama''
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