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Michael Ballew: Daddy Don't Live In Heaven (CD)

1-CD with 16-page booklet, 11 tracks. Playing time approx. 33 mns.

In 1981, Austin Texas-based Bear Family recording star Michael Ballew was signed to Liberty Records. Two singles were released, Your Daddy Don't Live In Heaven and Pretending Fool. Both hit the country charts and an album was planned but never released. Now Bear Family is making all of Michael Ballew's Liberty recordings available...the two singles plus the unreleased album. 

It's hard rocking country music, but it should be because it features theKim Carnes band. Anyone who dug Michael Ballew's Bear Family CDs will go for this, and anyone who likes left-of-center country music with a tough urban drive should check it out. Fans of Austin country music need look no further!

Michael Ballew
In 1980 I took a trip to Los Angeles to show several of my songs to a friend of mine, John English. At the time John was working for Val Garay who owned a state of the art studio, Record One in Sherman Oaks, and was at the peak of his career after producing an
latest Kim Carnes 'Bette Davis Eyes' album.

John liked the song Bob Moulds and I wrote Daddy Don't Live In Heaven so much, he suggested we cut it along with several other songs I wrote to see if he could find a record deal for me. The sessions came out great and every major label we went to wanted to sign me on the power of this one song. We settled on Liberty Records, the newly revived label of the past, that was now under the EMI America umbrella.

Liberty was so sure they had a hit and potential star on their hands, they gave us a handsome budget to complete an album. Although six of my original compositions are on this album, the top dogs at the label thought it best for John to take a trip to Nashville to collect the remainder of the material. They wanted the emphasis on dance music instead of lyrical content so we proceeded with what we felt was the most danceable, commercial songs he could find.

Just about the time Liberty released Daddy Kenny Rogers sued Liberty Records and won 13 million dollars in back royalties. We fought with them tooth and nail, but it became clear they just
didn't have enough money or resources left to properly promote all the singles they were releasing. Of course they were concentrating on their established artists, but even without adequate promotion, Daddy Don't Live In Heaven advanced onto the charts. Liberty then quickly released a tune John and I wrote Pretending Fool and with no promotion at all, climbed faster and further on the charts than the first single.

Of interest is the fact that when John English was shopping for songs in Nashville, the publisher for Lionel Richie gave the song Oh No to him and told us we could record it because he didn't think Lionel was going to release it. Oh No was scheduled to be my third single. It later went on to be a huge pop hit for Lionel. Such is life!

Despite the warm reception my records received from disc jockeys and fans, Liberty released me from my contract along with almost all the Liberty roster at the time, about 25 total artists — so the album was never issued and started gathering dust in the tape graveyard.

I was never sure what I thought of the Nashville songs, or my vocal approach to this album. I was singing my heart out trying to drive the band along thinking "I'll get to sing these again for real after the band gets their parts", but John and Val thought the first takes were great, so all the vocals are the originals. Now, as I listen to the album after all these years, I like it. As a matter of fact, it sound somewhat '90s line dance. Very high energy!

So boys and girls — put on your dancing shoes!

The musicians backing me up on these songs basically consist of the then Kim Carnes Band. They had absolutely no concept of country music, but they could sure rock the hell out of it. A good rock band playing country music. Sound familiar!

I hope, you enjoy it. We sure had fun making it and I'm glad after all these years it has been digitally revived and found a new home with Bear Family Records.

MICHAEL BALLEW Austin, Texas, October 1999


Article properties:Michael Ballew: Daddy Don't Live In Heaven (CD)

  • Interpret: Michael Ballew

  • Album titlle: Daddy Don't Live In Heaven (CD)

  • Genre Country

  • Label Bear Family Records

  • Preiscode AH
  • Artikelart CD

  • EAN: 4000127164094

  • weight in Kg 0.115
Ballew, Michael - Daddy Don't Live In Heaven (CD) CD 1
01Daddy Don't Live In HeavenMichael Ballew
02Pretending FoolMichael Ballew
03Oh NoMichael Ballew
04Lonely HeartMichael Ballew
05Loving ArmsMichael Ballew
06Songs On The RadioMichael Ballew
07Seminole JailMichael Ballew
08Blue WaterMichael Ballew
09You're Out Of My SightMichael Ballew
10Here Comes The HeartacheMichael Ballew
11Ain't No FutureMichael Ballew
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MICHAEL BALLEW  

Daddy Don't Live In Heaven 


MICHAEL BALLEW

Daddy Don't Live In Heaven

 

1980 unternahm ich eine Reise nach Los Angeles, um einem Freund von mir, John English, einige meiner Songs zu zeigen. Zu dieser Zeit arbeitete John für Val Garay, der ein hochmodernes Studio besaß, Record One in Sherman Oaks, und war auf dem Höhepunkt seiner Karriere, nachdem er das neueste Album von Kim Carnes'Betty Davis Eyes' produziert und ausgezeichnet hatte. John mochte den Song Bob Moulds und ich schrieb Daddy Don't Live In Heaven so sehr, schlug er vor, es zusammen mit einigen anderen Songs, die ich geschrieben hatte, zu schneiden, um zu sehen, ob er einen Plattenvertrag für mich finden könnte. Die Sessions waren großartig und jedes Major-Label, zu dem wir gingen, wollte mich auf die Kraft dieses einen Songs hinweisen. Wir entschieden uns für Liberty Records, das neu belebte Label der Vergangenheit, das nun unter dem Dach von EMI America stand.

 

Liberty war sich so sicher, dass sie einen Hit und einen potentiellen Star hatten, dass sie uns ein hübsches Budget für ein Album gaben. Obwohl sechs meiner Originalkompositionen auf diesem Album sind, fanden es die Top-Hunde des Labels am besten, wenn John eine Reise nach Nashville macht, um den Rest des Materials zu sammeln. Sie wollten die Betonung auf Tanzmusik statt auf lyrischen Inhalt legen, also machten wir weiter mit dem, was wir für die tanzbarsten, kommerziellsten Songs hielten, die er finden konnte.

 

Gerade ungefähr zu der Zeit, als Liberty Daddy Kenny Rogers verklagt hat und 13 Millionen Dollar an Lizenzgebühren gewonnen hat. Wir kämpften mit ihnen mit Händen und Füßen, aber es wurde klar, dass sie einfach nicht mehr genug Geld oder Ressourcen hatten, um alle Singles, die sie veröffentlichten, richtig zu fördern. Natürlich konzentrierten sie sich auf ihre etablierten Künstler, aber auch ohne entsprechende Promotion stieg Daddy Don't Live In Heaven in die Charts ein. Liberty veröffentlichte dann schnell eine Melodie John und ich schrieb Pretending Fool und kletterte ohne jegliche Promotion schneller und weiter in die Charts als die erste Single.

 

Interessant ist die Tatsache, dass der Verleger von Lionel Richie, als John English in Nashville einkaufte, ihm den Song Oh No gab und uns sagte, wir könnten ihn aufnehmen, weil er nicht dachte, dass Lionel ihn veröffentlichen würde. Oh, nein, es war geplant, meine dritte Single zu werden. Später wurde es ein großer Pop-Hit für Lionel. So ist das Leben!

 

Trotz des warmen Empfangs, den meine Platten von Discjockeys und Fans erhielten, befreite mich Liberty von meinem Vertrag, zusammen mit fast allen damaligen Liberty-Künstlern - so wurde das Album nie veröffentlicht und fing an, Staub auf dem Bandfriedhof zu sammeln.

 

Ich war mir nie sicher, was ich von den Nashville-Songs oder meinem vokalen Ansatz zu diesem Album hielt. Ich sang mein Herz und versuchte, die Band mit dem Gedanken zu treiben: "Ich werde sie wieder richtig singen können, nachdem die Band ihre Rollen bekommen hat", aber John und Val fanden die ersten Takes toll, also sind alle Vocals die Originale. Jetzt, da ich das Album nach all den Jahren höre, gefällt es mir. In der Tat, es klingt etwas wie ein 90er Jahre Line Dance. Sehr hohe Energie!

 

Also Jungs und Mädchen - zieht eure Tanzschuhe an!

 

Die Musiker, die mich bei diesen Songs unterstützen, bestehen im Wesentlichen aus der damaligen Kim Carnes Band. Sie hatten absolut kein Konzept von Countrymusik, aber sie konnten sicher sein, dass sie die Hölle aus ihr heraus rocken konnten. Eine gute Rockband, die Country-Musik spielt. Klingt vertraut!

 

Ich hoffe, es gefällt Ihnen. Wir hatten viel Spaß dabei und ich bin froh, dass es nach all den Jahren digital wiederbelebt wurde und ein neues Zuhause bei Bear Family Records gefunden hat. MICHAEL BALLEW

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Tracklist
Ballew, Michael - Daddy Don't Live In Heaven (CD) CD 1
01 Daddy Don't Live In Heaven
02 Pretending Fool
03 Oh No
04 Lonely Heart
05 Loving Arms
06 Songs On The Radio
07 Seminole Jail
08 Blue Water
09 You're Out Of My Sight
10 Here Comes The Heartache
11 Ain't No Future