Roy Clark Greatest Hits (CD)

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Roy Clark: Greatest Hits (CD)

(Craft Recordings) 18 tracks

The only Roy Clark hits album in print is being re-issued with a new cover and 4 additional tracks. This album includes the #1 hit "Come Live With Me" and the Top 10 crossover smash "Yesterday When I Was Young." As the host of Hee Haw, Clark enjoyed a 30-million viewership from 1969-1997. His instrumental skill had an enormous effect on generations of musicians. Clark was a member of the Grand Ole Opry and the Country Music Hall of Fame and an important and influential figure in country music.

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Interpret: Roy Clark
Album titlle: Greatest Hits (CD)
Genre Country
Artikelart CD
Label Craft Recordings
Year of publication 2020
EAN: 0888072181687
weight in Kg 0.08

Clark, Roy - Greatest Hits (CD) CD 1
01	Tips of My Fingers	Roy Clark
02	Yesterday When I Was Young	Roy Clark
03	Right or Left at Oak Street	Roy Clark
04	The She's A Lover	Roy Clark
05	I Never Picked Cotton	Roy Clark
06	Thank God and Greyhound	Roy Clark
07	Magnificent Sanctuary Band	Roy Clark
08	The Lawrence Welk Hee Haw Counter Revolution Polka	Roy Clark
09	Come Live with Me	Roy Clark
10	Riders in the Sky	Roy Clark
11	Somewhere Between Love and Tomorrow	Roy Clark
12	Honeymoon Feelin'	Roy Clark
13	The Great Divide	Roy Clark
14	Heart to Heart	Roy Clark
15	If I Had to Do It All Over Again	Roy Clark
16	Think Summer	Roy Clark
17	I Have A Dream, I Have A Dream	Roy Clark
18	Chain Gang Of Love	Roy Clark

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Roy Clark

Thank God And Greyhound

Roy Clark

Thank God And Greyhound

(Larry Kingston-Ed Nix)

recorded August 7, 1970; Producer: Joe Allison for Nereco Productions

with Roy Clark: vocal and guitar; others unknown.

Dot 17355 - MB 25227

We first heard Roy Clark playing guitar on Jimmy Dean's 1952 hit Bummin' Around. Later, he worked for Marvin Rainwater (who fired him for upstaging), Jimmy Dean again (who fired him for lateness), and Wanda Jackson. Wanda's manager, Jim Halsey, landed Clark a deal on Capitol where he scored a few small hits before being let go. Halsey’s Nereco Productions cut another deal, this time with Joe Allison who'd been a songwriter (He'll Have To Go), dee-jay, song-plugger, and head of Liberty Records' country division. As an independent producer, Allison licensed Clark's recordings to Dot. This was 1968, one year before Clark shot to national prominence on Hee-Haw. Allison understood that Clark thrived on novelty or semi-novelty songs, and found one published by steel guitarist Pete Drake and engineer Tommy Hill. Among those in Drake's orbit was guitarist Ed Nix, who’d seen “Thank God she's gone” on a Greyhound restroom wall, and got the idea for a song.

Drake placed Hix with another of his writers, Larry Kingston, who'd moved to Nashville in 1965 to work with Tommy Hill as a songwriter and recording artist at Starday. After Hill joined Drake at Stop Records, Kingston moved there too. Kingston's specialty was novelty songs like Pittsburgh Stealers for the Kendalls and Lovin' Machine for Johnny Paycheck. Kingston and Nix used the split tempo to great effect, and the post-departure segment allows Clark's natural ebullience to shine. Clark had been appearing on television since 1949 so he was well and truly ready when Hee Haw called. He became the first country musician to host The Tonight Show and almost singlehandedly popularized Branson as an elephants' graveyard for over-the-hill country singers. Now eighty, he still performs occasionally. Kingston died in 2009, still trying to write the next hit. Nix retired from music to work for Cobb County schools in his native Georgia, and died in 2004.

- Colin Escott -

Various Country & Western Hit Parade 1970

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