Webb Pierce The Unavailable Sides 1950-51 (CD)

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Webb Pierce: The Unavailable Sides 1950-51 (CD)

(1991/KRAZY KAT) 23 tracks

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Interpret: Webb Pierce
Album titlle: The Unavailable Sides 1950-51 (CD)
Genre Country
Label INTERSTATE
Year of publication 1994
Artikelart CD
EAN: 0008637601621
weight in Kg 0.1

Pierce, Webb - The Unavailable Sides 1950-51 (CD) CD 1
01	California Blues	Webb Pierce
02	Shuffle On Down (& CLIFF GRIMSLEY)	Webb Pierce
03	I Need You Like A Hole In The Head	Webb Pierce
04	I'm Watching The Stars	Webb Pierce
05	Steeling The Mood (& SHOT JACKSON)	Webb Pierce
06	I've Loved You Forever It Seems	Webb Pierce
07	Hawaiian Echoes	Webb Pierce
08	Have You Ever Had The Feeling?	Webb Pierce
09	Drifting Texas Sand	Webb Pierce
10	I Got Religion On A Saturday Night	Webb Pierce
11	The Last Waltz	Webb Pierce
12	In The Jailhouse	Webb Pierce
13	I Saw Your Face In The Moon	Webb Pierce
14	I'm Sitting On Top Of The World (& B.ATTAWAY)	Webb Pierce
15	Freight Train Blues (& B.ATTAWAY & W. PIERCE)	Webb Pierce
16	Poor Boy Rag (& HAL HARRIS)	Webb Pierce
17	I've Loved, I've Laughed, I've Cried(&HARRIS)	Webb Pierce
18	Beautiful Hawaiian Shores (& SHOT JACKSON)	Webb Pierce
19	I'll Forgive And Forget (& CLIFF GRIMSLEY)	Webb Pierce
20	A Million Years From Now (W.PIERCE&B.J.LEWIS)	Webb Pierce
21	I Heard Her Call My Name In Prayer	Webb Pierce
22	You Scared The Love Right Out Of Me	Webb Pierce
23	Hayride Boogie	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.