Webb Pierce Honky Tonk To Country Boogie

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Webb Pierce: Honky Tonk To Country Boogie

(2004/CANETOAD) 32 tracks 1951-59 (76:51) - 16 page booklet

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Album titlle: Honky Tonk To Country Boogie
Genre Country
Label CANETOAD
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Pierce, Webb - Honky Tonk To Country Boogie CD 1
01	California Blues (Blue Yodel #4)	Webb Pierce
02	You Scared The Love Right Out Of Me	Webb Pierce
03	I'm Gonna See My Baby	Webb Pierce
04	That Heart Belongs To Me	Webb Pierce
05	It's Been So Long	Webb Pierce
06	I'm Walkin' The Dog	Webb Pierce
07	Even Tho'	Webb Pierce
08	Sparkling Brown Eyes (& Wilburn Bros)	Webb Pierce
09	Leaning On The Everlasting Arms	Webb Pierce
10	You're Not Mine Anymore	Webb Pierce
11	In The Jailhouse Now	Webb Pierce
12	Sneakin' All Around	Webb Pierce
13	I Don't Care	Webb Pierce
14	Love Love Love	Webb Pierce
15	Why Baby Why (& Red Sovine)	Webb Pierce
16	Teenage Boogie	Webb Pierce
17	I'm Tired	Webb Pierce
18	Honky Tonk Song	Webb Pierce
19	Bye Bye Love	Webb Pierce
20	Missing You	Webb Pierce
21	Who Wouldn't Love You	Webb Pierce
22	I Found A True Love	Webb Pierce
23	New Panhandle Rag	Webb Pierce
24	The New Raunchy	Webb Pierce
25	You'll Come Back	Webb Pierce
26	I Ain't Never	Webb Pierce
27	I'll Never Have To Be Alone	Webb Pierce
28	No Love Have I	Webb Pierce
29	Is It Wrong (For Loving You)?	Webb Pierce
30	Public Enemy Number One	Webb Pierce
31	Sittin' Alone	Webb Pierce
32	After The Boy Gets The Girl	Webb Pierce

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

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Webb Pierce

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.