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Howard Crockett: Out Of Bounds - The Johnny Horton Connection (CD)

1-CD-Album with 24-page booklet, 36 tracks, playing time 81:44 minutes.

  • The original 'Honky Tonk Man!'
  • The first-ever CD by a true legend of Texas beerhall music, and the writer of some of Johnny Horton’s biggest hits.
  • Fans of Johnny Horton and gritty Johnny Cash-styled singing will love this record. Just one of these ultra-rare singles costs more at auction than this entire CD. Plus there are 13 previously unissued songs!

He didn’t have many hits as a singer, but Howard Crockett wrote Honky Tonk Man, Ole Slew Foot, Whispering Pines, and All Grown Up. All Johnny Horton hits. On the strength of Honky Tonk Man, he signed a contract with Dot Records, and this CD includes all his Dot/Hamilton recordings together with the legendarily rare Manco singles, as well as the never-reissued-until-now Smash recordings.

Serious rockabilly collectors have long been aware of Howard Crockett. With this CD, everyone can now appreciate a true original talent in the same vein as Johnny Horton and Johnny Cash but with a style all his own.

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  • Interpret: Howard Crockett

  • Album titlle: Out Of Bounds - The Johnny Horton Connection (CD)

  • Genre Country

  • Label Bear Family Records

  • Preiscode AH
  • Artikelart CD

  • EAN: 4000127167941

  • weight in Kg 0.115
Crockett, Howard - Out Of Bounds - The Johnny Horton Connection (CD) CD 1
01Break Away Billy BoyHoward Crockett
02Deep Elm DaveHoward Crockett
03Trail Of TearsHoward Crockett
04Jessie And The Glendale TrainHoward Crockett
05If You'll Let MeHoward Crockett
06Tell Me WhyHoward Crockett
07I Love This GirlHoward Crockett
08Steamboat BillHoward Crockett
09The Ballad Of Thunder RoadHoward Crockett
10Please Answer The PhoneHoward Crockett
11Out Of Bounds AgainHoward Crockett
12The Great TitanicHoward Crockett
13Going Down To SoldierHoward Crockett
14You've Got Me Lyin'Howard Crockett
15I'm Gonna Try AgainHoward Crockett
16Where Did My Baby GoHoward Crockett
17BrandedHoward Crockett
18Night RiderHoward Crockett
19Honky Tonk ManHoward Crockett
20All Grown UpHoward Crockett
21Sleufoot The BearHoward Crockett
22Johnny RebHoward Crockett
23I Got StripesHoward Crockett
24That Old JukeboxHoward Crockett
25Just A Poor ManHoward Crockett
26I've Got You Worried TooHoward Crockett
27Seven Cards From NowHoward Crockett
28Polly AnnHoward Crockett
29Dunkerque (Dunkerk)Howard Crockett
30Jessie And The Glendale TrainHoward Crockett
31Sugar Coated BabyHoward Crockett
32You've Got Me Lyin'Howard Crockett
33Untamed HeartHoward Crockett
34If You'll Let MeHoward Crockett
35Truddy BrownHoward Crockett
36Seven Cards From NowHoward Crockett
Howard Crockett THE MAN OF MANY MOODS Classic lyrics known to every rockabilly fan and... more
"Howard Crockett"

Howard Crockett

THE MAN OF MANY MOODS

Classic lyrics known to every rockabilly fan and many country fans. They were written by Howard Hausey, also known as Howard Crockett, who became a cult favorite among hard country music fans in Europe after some Swedish record collectors discovered him in the mid-1960s. He didn't have a hit record in Europe as a singer, but, in addition to Honky Tonk Man,many fans knew him for Ole Slew Foot, Whispering Pines, and All Grown Up. All Johnny Horton songs and all Howard Crockett compositions. As a recording artist, Howard's only success came in 1973 when Last Will And Testimony (Of A Drinking Man) reached #52 on the American country charts. Around that time, Swedish record collector Claes Olofsson made contact with Howard, and did an interview in which Howard talked about his career to that point:

"My biggest break as a singer was 'Last Will And Testimony (Of A Drinking Man).' After five years of retirement I was convinced I could not sell records as an artist. I had been labeled as too close to Johnny Cash, or to Johnny Horton and I had begun to believe it after all the years. A friend and long associate, Jim Webb of Hawks Productions, came to me with a proposition and I signed with him in January of 1973 to produce some material on me. We cut a session which in our opinion was not hit material. We went right back into the studio, canned the first session, and cut the hit record on our first release. It was on America Records and we broke it locally. Then Jim leased it to Dot and that is where we are now. We have some great material lined up which we hope will have the same impact. If nothing else I think I have won a mental victory over my fears of not being able to sell records. As you know, it did real well in a number of markets. Some did not play it because it did not fit their programming.

I guess it was not sweet enough. But it was a gut-bucket hit in the areas where it was played, especially to jukeboxes. It was sold in areas to jukebox operators where we did not receive one airplay."

This collection cuts off before Howard's one and only hit as a singer, and we mention it only because, at the time of interview, he had been a recording artist for sixteen years. We're featuring the recordings from the first six years of his recording career, and we begin our story before that.

Howard Elton Hausey was born on December 25th, 1925 in the tiny north Louisiana settlement of Yellow Pine, a few miles from Minden. His parents made their living as farmers and sharecroppers. Besides Howard, the Hauseys had a daughter, Irene. Howard became a good baseball prospect, and was discovered by Larry Hunter who owned a Coca-Cola bottling plant in Minden and ran a baseball team. When Howard was twelve, Hunter hired an ex-professional baseball player to teach and train him. By 1942, when Howard was seventeen, talent scouts were coming to see him play, among them one from the Brooklyn Dodgers. Howard wound up playing for the Dodgers organization as a pitcher. He had – as he puts it – a good career in baseball when an arm injury forced him out.

After a short stint with the U.S. Navy, Howard turned to music and began writing songs in earnest. He had a talent for writing poems, some say it was as easy for him to compose as for someone else to read the morning paper. Howard said that How Far Is The Nearest Star was his first song. His friends encouraged him to place his songs with name stars. In late 1955 or early January 1956, he went to the Louisiana Hayride. Howard recalls:

"I had written three songs: 'Honky Tonk Man' and two ballads, one of them being 'How Far Is The Nearest Star,' and a guy came by and he kept trying to get me to go to the Louisiana Hayride. Finally I told him I'd go, so we went. The first person he introduced me to was George Jones who was in a hurry. He then introduced me to Billie Jean Horton, who was the wife of Johnny Horton. She introduced me to Johnny and we went backstage. I sang him two or three ballads but he was looking for something uptempo and I did him 'Honky Tonk Man,' and he liked it and called his manager Tillman Franks. Johnny learned the song right there, then he took it to Nashville and recorded it."

Howard gave one third of the song to Horton and another third to Franks in order to get it recorded, although Franks says that he earned his share by refashioning a melody that was originally too close to George Jones' Why, Baby Why. "Johnny came to my house with a copy," Howard recalled. "I had no record player so I couldn't play it. I took it to a lady who had a jukebox where we played it. The story got around that she had it and I really had trouble getting it back."He also claims to have written One Woman Manand given it to Horton and Franks on the condition that Horton continued to record songs by him. Franks claims that he and Horton wrote the song, although it's not especially original, as it features new lyrics to a dance tune, Schottische In Texas.

On the strength of Honky Tonk Man, Howard moved to Texas: "I had a chance to be on the Big D Jamboree," he said. "That was as big show back then in Dallas and that's how I came to Texas. I liked Fort Worth and moved there.

I believe the year was 1956 and at that time I was doing 'Honky Tonk Man' and 'One Woman Man,' and songs like that on  stage."On Horton's next session, they recorded another Howard Crockett composition, Sugar Coated Baby, but it wasn't released until later. Howard also tried to land a recording contract. "It started with a tape that I had sent to Acuff-Rose,"he said. "Mac Wiseman had just become the new A&R man for Dot Records. He heard me and he liked my voice because it was deep, and in fact he made a comment that it sounded like a young Ernest Tubb. He got in touch with me at the radio station here and they signed me to Dot Records."

Mac Wiseman remembered signing Howard. "I was living in California at that time producing for Dot Records," he said recently. "I can't remember if I met him in California or Nashville. Probably Nashville. I know I was instrumental in changing his name. Being from Texas, I thought 'Crockett' was more appropriate than Hausey. He was a big hunk of a man. Had to carry two clubs to keep the women off. I liked him, but he could be a tricky booger. After he left Dot, he came to Nashville pitching songs. He gave three publishers an exclusive on his songs, and got a deposit from each one. He never pulled any skullduggery on me that I know of."

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Tracklist
Crockett, Howard - Out Of Bounds - The Johnny Horton Connection (CD) CD 1
01 Break Away Billy Boy
02 Deep Elm Dave
03 Trail Of Tears
04 Jessie And The Glendale Train
05 If You'll Let Me
06 Tell Me Why
07 I Love This Girl
08 Steamboat Bill
09 The Ballad Of Thunder Road
10 Please Answer The Phone
11 Out Of Bounds Again
12 The Great Titanic
13 Going Down To Soldier
14 You've Got Me Lyin'
15 I'm Gonna Try Again
16 Where Did My Baby Go
17 Branded
18 Night Rider
19 Honky Tonk Man
20 All Grown Up
21 Sleufoot The Bear
22 Johnny Reb
23 I Got Stripes
24 That Old Jukebox
25 Just A Poor Man
26 I've Got You Worried Too
27 Seven Cards From Now
28 Polly Ann
29 Dunkerque (Dunkerk)
30 Jessie And The Glendale Train
31 Sugar Coated Baby
32 You've Got Me Lyin'
33 Untamed Heart
34 If You'll Let Me
35 Truddy Brown
36 Seven Cards From Now