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(Disky) 15 Tracks - original Capitol/Liberty Masters 1969-1981 essential Billie Joe!***** more

Billie Jo Spears: Billie Jo Spears - Country Legends (CD)

(Disky) 15 Tracks - original Capitol/Liberty Masters 1969-1981 essential Billie Joe!*****

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  • Genre Country

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  • Artikelart CD

  • EAN: 0724348573629

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Spears, Billie Jo - Billie Jo Spears - Country Legends (CD) CD 1
01 Blanket On The Ground Billie Jo Spears
02 Mr. Walker, It´s All Over Billie Jo Spears
03 What I´ve Got In Mind Billie Jo Spears
04 Misty Blue Billie Jo Spears
05 If You Want Me Billie Jo Spears
06 Marty Gray Billie Jo Spears
07 Stay Away From The Apple Tree Billie Jo Spears
08 I´m Not Easy Billie Jo Spears
09 Lonely Hearts Club Billie Jo Spears
10 I´ve Got To Go Billie Jo Spears
11 57 Chevrolet Billie Jo Spears
12 Yesterday Billie Jo Spears
13 I Will Survive Billie Jo Spears
14 Rainy Days And Stormy Nights Billie Jo Spears
15 What The World Needs Now Is Love Billie Jo Spears
  Billie Jo Spears 1937 - 2011   Billie Jo Spears is best known for her... more
"Billie Jo Spears"

 

Billie Jo Spears

1937 - 2011

 

Billie Jo Spears is best known for her sexy 1975 #1 hit "Blanket on the Ground." Although she has not been on the U.S. country charts since 1984, she has enjoyed a con-siderable following in Great Britain since her first appear-ance at England's Wembley Festival in 1977.

Born Billie Jean Spears, she began her professional career at age thirteen in 1950, when she appeared at Houston's Keel Auditorium with a number of other country artists.

In 1953, as Billie Jean Moore, she made her first recording, "Too Old for Toys, Too Young for Boys," for Abbott Records (the flip side was cartoon voice-over master Mel Blanc's "I Dess I Dotta Doe"). She appeared on the Louisiana Hayride performing the song.

In 1964, at the urging of songwriter–talent scout Jack Rhodes, she moved to Nashville. Shortly afterward, A&R man Kelso Herston signed her to a recording contract with United Artists Records. In 1966 she followed Herston when he moved to head the Nashville office of Capitol Records.

During her stint with Capitol from 1966 to 1972, Spears scored her first Top Ten country hit, "Mr. Walker, It's Over," but felt typecast by uptempo, humorous material. Between 1972 and 1974 Spears recovered from prob-lems with her vocal cords and recorded for the small Brite Star and Cutlass labels.

She didn't begin to hit the Top Twenty regularly until after returning to United Artists in 1974. Though Kelso Herston re-signed her to the label, it was Larry Butler (who soon replaced Herston as label head) who produced her fairly successful string of United Artists hits that ran through 1980.

"Blanket on the Ground" — with backing vocals from the Jordanairs and steel from Pete Drake — became her trademark hit, and its success led to her being named the Academay Of Country Music's Most Promising Female Vocalist in 1976.

The following year she began making regular appearances in England, where her strongest following remains. — Don Rhodes

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Tracklist
Spears, Billie Jo - Billie Jo Spears - Country Legends (CD) CD 1
01 Blanket On The Ground
02 Mr. Walker, It´s All Over
03 What I´ve Got In Mind
04 Misty Blue
05 If You Want Me
06 Marty Gray
07 Stay Away From The Apple Tree
08 I´m Not Easy
09 Lonely Hearts Club
10 I´ve Got To Go
11 57 Chevrolet
12 Yesterday
13 I Will Survive
14 Rainy Days And Stormy Nights
15 What The World Needs Now Is Love