Webb Pierce Honky Tonk Song

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Webb Pierce: Honky Tonk Song

Pierce, Webb - Honky Tonk Song

Article properties: Webb Pierce: Honky Tonk Song

Interpret: Webb Pierce
Album titlle: Honky Tonk Song
Genre Country
Label MUSIC CLUB
Artikelart CD
EAN: 8712177016273
weight in Kg 0.107

Pierce, Webb - Honky Tonk Song CD 1
01	There Stand The Glass	Webb Pierce
02	Slowly	Webb Pierce
03	Sparkling Brown Eyes	Webb Pierce
04	In The Jailhouse Now	Webb Pierce
05	Why Baby Why	Webb Pierce
06	Honky Tonk Song	Webb Pierce
07	Missing You	Webb Pierce
08	Don't Do It Darlin'	Webb Pierce
09	I Ain't Never	Webb Pierce
10	Is It Wrong (For Loving You)	Webb Pierce
11	Cow Town	Webb Pierce
12	Fool Fool Fool	Webb Pierce
13	A New Love Affair	Webb Pierce
14	Don't Be The One	Webb Pierce
15	I Know (It Was You)	Webb Pierce
16	Just Imagination	Webb Pierce
17	I Love You Dear	Webb Pierce
18	Call Me Your Sweetheart	Webb Pierce
19	I Found A True Love	Webb Pierce
20	I'm Only Wishin'	Webb Pierce
21	Too Late To Worry Now	Webb Pierce
22	I'll Get By Somehow	Webb Pierce

Webb Pierce Although the original pressings credited Mel Tillis, this song was adapted from a... more

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Although the original pressings credited Mel Tillis, this song was adapted from a song of the same name by Tommy Collins, who'd written and performed You Better Not Do That and written Faron Young's hit If You Ain't Loving, You Ain't Living (see our 1954 volume for both). Collins was a troubled guy who never seemed able to make the one thousand percent commitment that success seemed to require. In 1959, when this was recorded, he was still on Capitol but hadn't seen a hit for four years. He was studying to become a preacher when Mel Tillis rewrote his 1955 single No Love Have I into one of the biggest hits of 1960. Collins' gentle waltz tempo was replaced by the same 4/4 rocking beat that Webb had perfected on Tillis' I Ain't Never (see 1959). In Tillis' hands, Collins' hillbilly lament became a country power ballad. The chorus was front-and-center and the growling six-string bass drove the performance. The original chorus, "I'd trade my life for a beggar if he had someone close by his side/Sometimes I can't keep from crying, crying 'cause no love have I," was more self-eviscerating than Tillis's pop-ish rewrite. In fact, there was little similarity between Collins' original and Pierce's record, but just enough for Collins' publisher, Capitol's Ken Nelson, to make a fuss. When Buck Owens recorded No Love Have I as part of his Collins tribute LP in 1963, he used the original words and original waltz time (Buck had been a session guitarist on Collins' earliest records), and when Collins re-recorded No Love Have I for Columbia one year later, he set his original lyrics set to a walking 4/4 rhythm. Later, of course, Collins became a songwriter in residence for Merle Haggard.