Claude Gray The Tall Texan 1960-62

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Claude Gray: The Tall Texan 1960-62

(2012/BACM) 28 tracks

Article properties: Claude Gray: The Tall Texan 1960-62

Interpret: Claude Gray
Album titlle: The Tall Texan 1960-62
Label BRITISH ARCHIVE
Genre Country
Artikelart CD
EAN: 0797734089073
weight in Kg 0.1

Gray, Claude - The Tall Texan 1960-62 CD 1
01	My Tears Are Inside	Claude Gray
02	When The Doorbell Rang	Claude Gray
03	Barricade Around My Heart	Claude Gray
04	Late Again	Claude Gray
05	I Just Want To Be Alone	Claude Gray
06	You Take The Table And I?Ll Take The Chairs	Claude Gray
07	Talk To Me Lonesome Heart	Claude Gray
08	Let's End It Before It Begins	Claude Gray
09	A World I Can't Live In	Claude Gray
11	Blackboard Of My Heart	Claude Gray
12	I've Been Known To Cry	Claude Gray
13	Treasure Of Love	Claude Gray
14	My Ears Should Burn When Fools Are Talked About	Claude Gray
15	Stone Heart	Claude Gray
16	Your Old Love Letters	Claude Gray
17	I Thought I Heard You Call My Name	Claude Gray
18	You Belong To Me	Claude Gray
19	Shrimp Boats	Claude Gray
20	Why Don't You Believe Me	Claude Gray
21	Goodnight Irene	Claude Gray
22	Cry	Claude Gray
23	I Really Don't Want To Know	Claude Gray
24	Till I Waltz Again With You	Claude Gray
25	Just Walking In The Rain	Claude Gray
26	My Happiness	Claude Gray
27	Too Young	Claude Gray
28	Call Of The Wild	Claude Gray

Claude Gray Family Bible Known as 'The Tall Texan', Claude Gray was from Henderson in... more

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"Claude Gray"

Claude Gray

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Known as 'The Tall Texan', Claude Gray was from Henderson in east Texas (where he was born on January 26, 1932). He left the Navy in 1954 with the idea of getting into the entertainment business. After a stint as a dee-jay in Kilgore, Texas, he moved to Meridian, Mississippi, and first recorded for Minor Records. He joined Pappy Daily's D Records in 1958, and finally hit paydirt with this song. As most people now know, the composer credit (Walt Breeland, Claude Gray, and Paul Buskirk) is somewhat misleading. The true composer was Willie Nelson, who mistakenly hung onto the composer credit of Gray's flip side but sold Family Bible in one of his many moments of need. The song was Willie's sweet and sentimental evocation of family gatherings back home in Abbott, Texas. Buskirk was Nelson's mentor and pal, and, as Willie himself remembered, "I called Paul one morning and offered to sell him 'Family Bible.' He paid me fifty dollars for it. Then I sold him 'Night Life' for $150. My name wasn't on 'Family Bible' when it became a hit but I was really glad to know I could write a Number One song. I never harboured any resentment toward Paul. I needed that money in a big way when I sold the songs. Up until then I didn't know if I could write a song that was commercial or even acceptable."

Paul Buskirk in turn sold shares to Pappy Daily's employee, Walt Breeland, and Gray himself. Buskirk led the band on Gray's record and brought a child's electric organ to Houston's Gold Star studio. Clyde Brewer switched from fiddle to organ for the song. If we're being picky, it wasn't a #1 song (it peaked at #10), but it encouraged Willie to head for Nashville and enabled Pappy Daily to peddle Gray's contract to Mercury. Willie loaded his then-wife, Martha, and their two kids into his 1950 Buick, dropped Martha and the kids with his in-laws and went on alone to Nashville. "That was where the store was," he wrote later. "If I had anything to sell, it must be taken to the store." He stayed with Opry star Billy Walker before moving into a trailer park sandwiched between a used car lot and a veterans' cemetery. Roger Miller had just moved out.

Various Country & Western Hit Parade 1960
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