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1-CD with 36-page booklet, 30 tracks, total playing time 77:45 minutes. The blind Texan Leon... more

Leon Payne: I Love You Because

1-CD with 36-page booklet, 30 tracks, total playing time 77:45 minutes.

The blind Texan Leon Payne (1917-1969) is probably best remembered today as the songwriter who penned all-time classics like I Love You Because and You've Still Got A Place In My Heart, as well as two songs best known through Hank Williams’ recorded versions, They'll Never Take Her Love From Me and Lost Highway. He wrote hundreds of others, too, but he was also a vital and versatile performer who recorded prolifically from 1941 through the 1960s. He gained only mid-level stardom nationwide, though he remained a popular performer in his native Southwest until his death.

Leon Payne recorded for such labels as Bluebird, Bullet, Decca, Starday, 'D,' and TNT, but it was during his mid-career stint at Capitol from 1949-1953 that he reached his peak and produced his most enduring music, from his classic, chart-topping first release I Love You Because to minor hits like I'm A Lone Wolf, and underappreciated sides like I Miss That Gal, If I Could Live My Life Over, and Poke Salad Greens. Collected here are the best of his Capitol years, including all of the above, and other memorable tracks, like I Hate To Leave You, A Link In The Chain Of Broken Hearts, Mailman, and Weeping Willow, as well as several unissued sides -- 30 tracks in all.

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Payne, Leon - I Love You Because CD 1
01 I Love You Because Leon Payne
02 I Miss That Gal Leon Payne
03 Poke Salad Greens Leon Payne
04 A Link In The Chain Of Broken Hearts Leon Payne
05 I Hate To Leave You Leon Payne
06 Find Them, Fool Them, And Leave Them Leon Payne
07 You've Still Got A Place In My Heart Leon Payne
08 I'm A Lone Wolf Leon Payne
09 If I Could Only Live My Life Over Leon Payne
10 How Can I Help It Leon Payne
11 Mail Man Leon Payne
12 Lolita Leon Payne
13 Did I Forget To Tell You Leon Payne
14 Sister Sue Polka Leon Payne
15 I Just Said Goodbye To My Dreams Leon Payne
16 It's Many A Mile Back Home Leon Payne
17 I Don't Know Why Leon Payne
18 Weeping Willow Leon Payne
19 Lonely And Blue Over Someone Leon Payne
20 Restless Heart Leon Payne
21 Lyin' To My Heart Leon Payne
22 Fatal Letter Leon Payne
23 I Want You To Love Me Leon Payne
24 I Couldn't Do A Thing Without You Leon Payne
25 Farewell Waltz Leon Payne
26 Wouldn't It Be Wonderful Leon Payne
27 Teach Me To Forget Leon Payne
28 By Your Side Leon Payne
29 Empty Dreams Leon Payne
30 Golden Harvest Leon Payne
Leon Payne Summer 1949, Houston, Texas. Lee Gillette, head of Capitol Records' country music... more
"Leon Payne"

Leon Payne

Summer 1949, Houston, Texas. Lee Gillette, head of Capitol Records' country music division, arrives in Texas to cut a few field sessions with Texas-based artists. From Dallas, where he waxes sides by rising star Hank Thompson and by the cross-eyed harmonica-playing singer Aubrey Gass, he heads southeast to Houston to record hot new signee Leon Payne, late of the independent Bullet label. Gillette is joined in Houston by the veteran songwriter, producer and publisher Fred Rose of Nashville's burgeoning Acuff-Rose publishing company. Payne is a top songwriting prospect and Rose wants to be there to insure that his songs are cut right, not sacrificed to bad production or a flashy band. Neither he nor Gillette like what they hear, however.

Payne's recent records for Bullet had been straightforward hillbilly records, with simple, raw backings dominated by Billy Turner's Bashful Brother Oswald-inspired steel and Red Hayes' mournful fiddle. But for his first Capitol session, Payne has ambitiously augmented his usual four-piece backing group -- itself a far more sophisticated group than that heard on Bullet -- with two fiddlers, bringing the total to three, and a backing female vocal trio. It is not what Gillette nor Rose had in mind. Smooth western swing and swing-influenced country was still in vogue to a certain extent in Houston in 1949 and especially on the West Coast, but its popularity was fading fast nationally, on record if not yet in the dance halls. Gillette and Rose were looking for a more streamlined, hillbilly style, like another of Rose's rising stars Hank Williams, who'd recently scored with Payne's song Lost Highway on MGM

Gillette and Rose send the vocal trio and the extra fiddlers home and tell Payne and his band to keep it simple, to go with what brought Payne to this point in the first place: the sound he had on his Bullet hits like Lifetime To Regret. By the end of the year, Payne's love ballad to his wife Myrtie, I Love You Because, is atop the country charts on its way to becoming an all-time standard, and Leon Payne looks poised to become one of country music's top stars.

Although he had firmly established his reputation as one of the best songwriters working in country music, Leon Payne was unlikely star material when he inked his major label contract with Capitol. Blind from very early in life, with a quirky voice that had mellowed and matured considerably over the years -- it had once been almost femininely high-pitched and often unsure --Payne had been kicking around the music business since the middle 1930s and had first recorded in 1941, though only recently with any success.

He could write songs, however. By the dozens. And he had a knack both for straightforward but beautiful melodies and deeply affecting, often very witty lyrics. He had the musical background and sensibilities to write pop songs and could do exactly that when the mood struck him. Though he was something of a teller of tall tales in life, he had no pretensions when it came to music. For every jaunty pop song he wrote like Sister Sue Polka or Jitterbug Jive, there were rawly emotional and unashamedly simple country songs like Lost Highway or Lifetime To Regret. His best songs may be those that combined directness and sincerity with lyrical and musical sophistication, an approach epitomized by I Love You Because.

Unfortunately, in a purely commercial sense, at least, Payne never followed through on the promise of I Love You Because. He continued to write hundreds of songs, both excellent and indifferent, and recorded prolifically into the 1960s. He remained something of a star, too, albeit mostly on a regional level. His recordings were, with few exceptions, consistently strong to the end and he deserves a major reissue. This set is a start, and many of his early, important Bullet sides, including Lifetime To Regret, Lost Highway, and They'll Never Take Her Love From Me are available in Bear Family's box set devoted to various Nashville-based independent labels (BCD 15854). Bear Family here collects the cream of Payne's Capitol years (1949-53), including not only classic ballads like I Love You Because, but jaunty blues like I Miss That Gal and Mailman, and novelties like the jumping Poke Salad Greens or the leering and topical I'm A Lone Wolf, plus several previously unissued tracks. 

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Tracklist
Payne, Leon - I Love You Because CD 1
01 I Love You Because
02 I Miss That Gal
03 Poke Salad Greens
04 A Link In The Chain Of Broken Hearts
05 I Hate To Leave You
06 Find Them, Fool Them, And Leave Them
07 You've Still Got A Place In My Heart
08 I'm A Lone Wolf
09 If I Could Only Live My Life Over
10 How Can I Help It
11 Mail Man
12 Lolita
13 Did I Forget To Tell You
14 Sister Sue Polka
15 I Just Said Goodbye To My Dreams
16 It's Many A Mile Back Home
17 I Don't Know Why
18 Weeping Willow
19 Lonely And Blue Over Someone
20 Restless Heart
21 Lyin' To My Heart
22 Fatal Letter
23 I Want You To Love Me
24 I Couldn't Do A Thing Without You
25 Farewell Waltz
26 Wouldn't It Be Wonderful
27 Teach Me To Forget
28 By Your Side
29 Empty Dreams
30 Golden Harvest