There are a lot of English fans who can remember more about what I’ve done than I can.This is a comprehensive list of songs written or performed by pop duo The Carpenters, featuring Karen and Richard Carpenter. “They know who wrote the song, where you recorded it, and who the musicians were, and all of that stuff.
Williams told Country Music International. “I’ve found that the English pay a lot of respect to your music,” Mr. In 1980 the readers of the London-based magazine Country Music People voted him the artist of the decade. He was enthusiastically received at the 1976 Wembley Festival and performed at the Royal Albert Hall in London. His most robust following outside the United States, however, was always in England (although he was popular elsewhere in Europe as well). In 1997 he released a DVD, “Into Africa,” recorded live in Harare, Zimbabwe. Williams cultivated strong fan support in India and Latin America and was one of the few country stars to tour in Africa. Williams announced his retirement last year, saying in a statement that it was “time to hang my hat up and enjoy some quiet time at home.” A tribute album, “Gentle Giants: The Songs of Don Williams,” including performances by Lady Antebellum and Garth Brooks, was released this year. His survivors include his wife of 57 years, the former Joy Bucher and their two sons, Gary and Timmy and four grandchildren. He was elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2010. and the Dixie Dancekings” (1975) and “Smokey and the Bandit II” (1980). Williams released more than 40 albums in his career, on MCA, Capitol, RCA and other labels. Williams held several jobs outside the music business before moving to Nashville in the early 1970s to sign a contract with Jack Music, the publishing company operated by the producer Cowboy Jack Clement. So, forget the title and concentrate on the music, which is a distillation of his decade-long stint at Curb.
is disingenuous, since three discs are hardly enough space to cover his complete recordings or even his complete recordings for Curb Records. The trio split up in 1969, after which Mr. To be fair, the title of The Complete Hank Williams, Jr. The group recorded several albums for Columbia Records, and two of its singles reached the pop Top 40. In 1964, after serving in the Army, he formed the Pozo-Seco Singers, a folk-pop trio, with Susan Taylor and Lofton Cline, in Corpus Christi. He first sang in public at age 3 and performed in country, rock and folk bands as a teenager. Williams graduated from high school in 1958. They eventually settled in Portland, Tex., near Corpus Christi on the Gulf Coast, where Mr. His father was a mechanic who moved the family often in search of a better life. He was born Don Williams on May 27, 1939, in the rural north Texas community of Floydada.
Williams also had a Top 10 country hit in 1974 with a cover of “The Ties That Bind,” which had been a Top 40 pop hit for the soul singer Brook Benton in 1960. Clapton’s version of the song reached the pop Top 40 in 1980. Williams’s facility with more rhythmically propulsive material. 1 on the country chart in 1978, was evidence of Mr. “Tulsa Time,” a line-dancing favorite that hit No. His recordings also benefited from the creative input of country-pop crossover producers like Allen Reynolds and Garth Fundis, who offered a seamless blend of country, pop, rock and R&B sensibilities. Then, when Bill Haley, Little Richard and all that started happening, I think a lot of us made a transition then without realizing it.” “At the same time, I’d also listen to Teresa Brewer, the Ink Spots and the Platters. Williams recalled in a 1995 interview with the British magazine Country Music International. “When I was growing up, I used to listen to Ray Price, Johnny Cash and Jim Reeves,” Mr. Williams’s success as an artist was likewise attributable to the accessibility and stylistic reach of his music. His unfussy aesthetic - at once simple and, in its elemental way, profound - would go on to influence, among others, the country singer-songwriters Alan Jackson, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Brad Paisley and Kathy Mattea.
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