Webb Pierce King Of The Honky Tonk (CD)

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(MCA Records) 18 tracks Some of the best honky-tonk performances, all the great Decca recordings... more

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Webb Pierce: King Of The Honky Tonk (CD)

(MCA Records) 18 tracks

Some of the best honky-tonk performances, all the great Decca recordings Webb made in the '50s - they sound wonderful on CD! Produced in association with the Country Music Foundation, a brand that can be trusted to honor historic works. 18 works by a hillbilly genius: “Wondering”, 'Back Street Affair', 'There Stands The Glass', 'I'm Walking The Dog', 'Even 'Tho”, ‘I Don't Care’, ‘Why Baby Why’, ‘Honky Tonk Song’, ‘I'm Tired’, ‘Tupelo County Jail’ and more.

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Interpret: Webb Pierce
Album titlle: King Of The Honky Tonk (CD)
Genre Country
Label CMF
Artikelart CD
EAN: 0022111001929
weight in Kg 0.107

Pierce, Webb - King Of The Honky Tonk (CD) CD 1
01	Wondering	Webb Pierce
02	I Just Can't Be True	Webb Pierce
03	Back Street Affair	Webb Pierce
04	Broken Engagement	Webb Pierce
05	It's Been Too Long	Webb Pierce
06	There Stands The Glass	Webb Pierce
07	I'm Walking The Dog	Webb Pierce
08	Slowly	Webb Pierce
09	Even Tho'	Webb Pierce
10	Sparkling Brown Eyes	Webb Pierce
11	More And More	Webb Pierce
12	In The Jailhouse Now	Webb Pierce
13	I Don't Care	Webb Pierce
14	Why Baby Why	Webb Pierce
15	I'm Tired	Webb Pierce
16	Honky Tonk Song	Webb Pierce
17	Tupelo County Jail	Webb Pierce
18	I Ain't Never	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.