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1-CD with 32-page booklet, 34 tracks, playing time 78:25 minutes. "If you enjoyed 'Wooden...more

Joe Dowell: Wooden Heart (CD)

1-CD with 32-page booklet, 34 tracks, playing time 78:25 minutes.

"If you enjoyed 'Wooden Heart,' Joe Dowell's #1 hit record from the '60s, you'll really like his other, nostalgic-era songs now featured on Bear Family Records.” (Pat Boone)

This is absolutely quintessential early Sixties pop. Pop before the loss of innocence. Joe Dowell came to Nashville during a school break, and was signed by Mercury Records. He was whisked into the studio, and offered a chance to record a song that Elvis had out on an album … but not a single. That song was Wooden Heart, and it topped the US charts in 1961. His only hit has been anthologized plenty of times, but this is the first CD ever devoted to theJoe Dowellstory…and it’s an interesting one. 

Thousands of people who bought Bear Family’s '1000 Nadelstiche' series will find that this is an intriguing footnote to that series, and others who simply love early Sixties pop will finally get a chance to hear what else Joe Dowell could do (hint: there are many other German-themed songs). As a bonus, there are two answer songs:
Linda Hall’s You Don’t Have A Wooden Heart and Rhea Renee’s I Too Have No Wooden Heart.

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  • Interpret: Joe Dowell

  • Album titlle: Wooden Heart (CD)

  • Genre Rock'n'Roll

  • Label Bear Family Records

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  • EAN: 4000127166470

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Dowell, Joe - Wooden Heart (CD) CD 1
01Wooden Heart (english version)Joe Dowell
02The One I Left For YouJoe Dowell
03Little Bo BeepJoe Dowell
04Our School DaysJoe Dowell
05The Bridge Of LoveJoe Dowell
06Just Love MeJoe Dowell
07The Thorn And The RoseJoe Dowell
08The Sound Of SadnessJoe Dowell
09Bobby Blue Loves A Linda LouJoe Dowell
10My Darling Wears White TodayJoe Dowell
11Absent With A Broken HeartJoe Dowell
12Bringa-Branga BroughtJoe Dowell
13No SecretJoe Dowell
14Poor Little CupidJoe Dowell
15When You Fall In LoveJoe Dowell
16Dancing DollJoe Dowell
17The One I Left For YouJoe Dowell
18Little Red Rented RowboatJoe Dowell
19Lilli Marlene (Lady Of The Lamplight)Joe Dowell
20Auf Wiederseh'n, SweetheartJoe Dowell
21Underneath A Linden TreeJoe Dowell
22Nur einmal (Only Once)Joe Dowell
23MorgenJoe Dowell
24Wooden Heart (german version)Joe Dowell
25The Happy WandererJoe Dowell
26Wonderland By NightJoe Dowell
27Oh! My Papa (O mein Papa)Joe Dowell
28Gift Of LoveJoe Dowell
29Little DollyJoe Dowell
30FrauleinJoe Dowell
31A Kiss For Christmas (O Tannenbaum)Joe Dowell
32(I Wonder) Who's Spending Christmas With YouJoe Dowell
33I, Too Have No Wooden Heart (RHEA RENEE)Joe Dowell
34You Don't Have A Wooden Heart (LINDA HALL)Joe Dowell
  Joseph Harry “Joe” Dowell,  born January 23, 1940, best-known... more
"Joe Dowell"

 

Joseph Harry “Joe” Dowell, born January 23, 1940, best-known for his number one chart success, Wooden Heart, passed away February 4, 2016 in Bloomington, Illinois after suffering a heart attack in the prior weekend.

At his first recording session, he sang the tune Wooden Heart, which had been a hit for Elvis Presley in Europe, but which was never released as a single stateside. Wooden Heart became the first single released on Smash Records to shoot to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100in 1961. It sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc.

Bear Family Records released a CD on Joe Dowell's music, including the hits and unreleased recordings. 

 

 

"I'm not so proud of this, that I did a little bragging," Joe Dowell recalls. As a 21-year-old student from the University of Illinois in Champaign with a little time to spare during final exams, he and a friend, John Coleman, drove to Nashville, Tennessee in a borrowed Volkswagen. They visited every record label and publishing house on Music Row as Dowell tried to raise interest in his songs and singing ability. He told the music biz skeptics, "I know my first record is going to go to #1. I just feel it! I know it will!"  Dowell later heard from Red Sovine that he became the butt of jokes up and down Music Row, this unknown kid full of braggadocio. But when his debut single, Wooden Heart, sailed to the top of the charts a few months later, "All the backstabbing stopped on Music Row," Dowell says. "They didn't say anything more."

Wooden Heart  was one of the biggest hits of 1961 and the beginning of Dowell's two-year stint at Smash, a then-new subsidiary of Mercury Records. Dowell's Smash recordings encompassed a variety of styles—rock 'n' roll, teen idol pop, traditional pop—as Dowell struggled to assert himself as a serious vocalist and songwriter while his label made him cut a series of teen-oriented novelties. Dowell likened the artistic process at Smash to an assembly line, but his tenure with the label yielded several chart hits, two albums, and some fun novelty music he performed well even when it was not to his liking.

Joseph Harry Dowell was born January 23, 1940 in Bloomington, Indiana, a small college town an hour's drive south of Indianapolis. His father, Harry Francis Dowell, taught high school physics and French, led the high school orchestra, and coached basketball and swimming. While teaching in Terre Haute, Indiana, he married one of his former students, Ruth Reupke. Dissatisfied with his low pay, Harry became involved with the Boy Scouts and moved to Bloomington, Indiana to work as an assistant Scout executive. Joe was born there and his family—father, mother, and older sister Joann—lived in a tidy house on Union Street.

Harry was offered a position as head Scout executive in 1941 that required the Dowells to relocate to another Bloomington--Bloomington, Illinois, 130 miles southwest of Chicago. Ruth took a job at Haywood High School where she taught English and Latin and served as the school's librarian and play director, a job she held for 22 years.

Joe's older sister Joann died of encephalitis from a tick bite in 1943 at the age of 7, and in 1950 tragedy struck again when Joe's 47-year-old father died of a heart attack. His mother was left to support Joe and his younger sister Susie while trying to deal with the blow of losing half her family. At thirteen Joe picked up the guitar and began writing songs as a way of working through his feelings of loss.

"I wrote my first song, the lyrics of which are pretty telling," Joe remembers. "I felt as if I were being abandoned by the world. There was a lot of anguish. And the first song lyric I ever wrote with a guitar was 'Tell me why you don't love me anymore.' Obviously expressing a sense of sorrow and loneliness, because it was not written to a girl or to a broken boy-girl relationship. It was a statement of psychology to the world in general: Tell me why I'm unloved."

Within his family, Dowell says, "Mother was dealing with her own emotions and could not be expected to be phenomenal child psychologist, God, teacher, homemaker, cook, and all that. So she really did not know what I was going through."

 Joe Dowell Wooden Heart
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Eine sehr interessante CD

Die CD ist sehr interessant. Mir war vorher nicht viel bekannt von Joe Dowell, vor allem nicht, dass er viele Songs veröffentlichte, die ausländischen, insbesondere deutschen, Ursprung haben.

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Tracklist
Dowell, Joe - Wooden Heart (CD) CD 1
01 Wooden Heart (english version)
02 The One I Left For You
03 Little Bo Beep
04 Our School Days
05 The Bridge Of Love
06 Just Love Me
07 The Thorn And The Rose
08 The Sound Of Sadness
09 Bobby Blue Loves A Linda Lou
10 My Darling Wears White Today
11 Absent With A Broken Heart
12 Bringa-Branga Brought
13 No Secret
14 Poor Little Cupid
15 When You Fall In Love
16 Dancing Doll
17 The One I Left For You
18 Little Red Rented Rowboat
19 Lilli Marlene (Lady Of The Lamplight)
20 Auf Wiederseh'n, Sweetheart
21 Underneath A Linden Tree
22 Nur einmal (Only Once)
23 Morgen
24 Wooden Heart (german version)
25 The Happy Wanderer
26 Wonderland By Night
27 Oh! My Papa (O mein Papa)
28 Gift Of Love
29 Little Dolly
30 Fraulein
31 A Kiss For Christmas (O Tannenbaum)
32 (I Wonder) Who's Spending Christmas With You
33 I, Too Have No Wooden Heart (RHEA RENEE)
34 You Don't Have A Wooden Heart (LINDA HALL)