David Houston Hackin' Around (LP)

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(Demand) 19 tracks - David Houston's Rock'n'Roll and Rockabilly recordings before he became a... more

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David Houston: Hackin' Around (LP)

(Demand) 19 tracks - David Houston's Rock'n'Roll and Rockabilly recordings before he became a succesful country singer! White vinyl! Limited to 500 copies!

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Interpret: David Houston
Album titlle: Hackin' Around (LP)
Genre Rock'n'Roll
Label DEMAND
Geschwindigkeit 33 U/min
Vinyl record size LP (12 Inch)
Record Grading Mint (M)
Sleeve Grading Mint (M)
Artikelart LP
EAN: 4000127738189
weight in Kg 0.2

Houston, David - Hackin' Around (LP) LP 1
01	Miss Brown	David Houston
02	Sugar Sweet	David Houston
03	I'll Always Have It On My Mind	David Houston
04	The Teenage Frankie & Johnny	David Houston
05	So Young So Unknowing	David Houston
06	Always Out On The Mountain	David Houston
07	All I Do Is Dream Of You	David Houston
08	Ain't That Loving You Baby	David Houston
09	It's Been So Long	David Houston
10	One And Only	David Houston
11	Hackin'Around	David Houston
12	I Ain't Goin' There No More	David Houston
13	I Waited So Long	David Houston
14	Find Yourself Another Fool	David Houston
15	Blue Prelude	David Houston
16	Hasta Luego	David Houston
17	Someone Else's Arms	David Houston
18	The Key	David Houston
19	Kaula	David Houston

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"David Houston"

David Houston

My Elusive Dreams

David Houston and Tammy Wynette

My Elusive Dreams (C. Putman-B. Sherrill)

recorded June 6, 1967 (22:00-01:00) Columbia Recording Studio, 804 16th Avenue South, Nashville, Tennessee; Producer: Billy Sherrill

with David Houston and Tammy Wynette: vocal; other details unknown

Epic 5-10194 - master NCO 120 660

To hear Billy Sherrill, this was one of the songs he wrote immediately before or during the session. "I write out of panic," he said. "When I have an artist and a session and an acre of violins. I think 'My Elusive Dreams' took ten minutes." But it wasn't that simple. Curly Putman (whose biggest hit to that point was Green, Green Grass Of Home) wrote the song about his personal odyssey. Starting as a steel guitarist in Huntsville, Alabama, he'd gotten married and become a shoe salesman in Madison, Tennessee. "Then they made me assistant manager of a shoe store in Memphis," Putman said later, "and that moving from one place to another inspired me to write 'My Elusive Dreams.' But I got tired of the shoe business and went back to Huntsville. We moved to Chicago, but I didn't like it there too well, so I moved back to Alabama, working in the sawmill with my dad and going to trade school in Decatur. I tried to learn piano tuning…anything to stick to music in some way." Established in Nashville, Putman played My Elusive Dreams for Tammy Wynette soon after he'd written it. Sherrill helped with some of the lines, but Tammy didn't like it. "You know," she told him, "that would be good for Peter, Paul & Mary."

And so, on March 23, 1967, Putman recorded it himself for ABC-Paramount. Even before it was issued, Johnny Darrell recorded it, and his version was the first to hit the charts, but by then Sherrill had already persuaded his two biggest stars to record it, and their version was rushed out within days. Tammy, who'd pursued her own elusive dreams across the southeastern quadrant of the United States, squeezed every drop of pathos from the words. It became her first #1 hit and Houston's third. In 1970, when Sherrill was producing Bobby Vinton, he pitched My Elusive Dreams and Vinton took it to #27 on the country charts and #46 on the pop charts. In 1975, when Sherrill was producing Charlie Rich, he pitched My Elusive Dreams yet again, and it returned to the country charts, this time at #3, and the pop charts at #49. In between, Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood recorded it, but perhaps the best cover version of all was by Moses & Joshua Dillard, whose roaring Sam & Dave-style revival transfigured the song.

- Colin Escott -

Various Country & Western Hit Parade 1967

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