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To part 3, 1963-1969 RCA, Hickory, Nashville, country, bizarre and open minded singer-songwriter songs
To part 4, 1970 & later MIM, Europe, years of retirement
To part 5, Loudermilk singing traditionals and covering other songwriters
To part 6, unknown songs/covers - info wanted!
To a few sound samples of unreleased songs.
Would you believe it, European Champion body building 1982. Ritva 'Kike' Elomaa,
even recorded the song...!
Original version written by Loudermilk in 1959 and recorded by
(Cherokee Indian) Marvin Rainwater, entitled "Pale Faced Indian".
Loudermilk later reshuffled some lyrics and released it in the mid 1960s as "The Lament Of The Cherokee Reservation Indian",
which was shortened later to "Indian Reservation" by Don Fardon scoring a worldwide hit.
The Raiders (vocals Mark Lindsay) copied it for the US market
A well-known story is that when Loudermilk was asked by American Top 40 radio show about the story behind
the Raider's hit Indian Reservation,
he concocted a tale that he wrote the song after crashing his car in a blizzard and being kidnapped
by Cherokee Indians. He claimed that they tortured him for days and only let him go after he promised
to write a song about their plight. DJ Casey Kasem ran the story about four times and called it the
"one of the most incredible stories we've ever told on AT40"
The song has not only been used by American and Canadian Indians as a protest song.
In 1972 a Jamaican black reggae version was recorded (new lyrics and re-titled "African Blood")
and more recently Slovenian fascisto-rock band Laibach made an impressive and penetrating cover.
In their "National Reservation" they comment on how Eastern European Balkans nations are being Americanised and Japanised.
← picture sleeve of the early Japanese 45rpm Hickory release of the Roy Acuff Jr. version
→ Kiowarini (ps. for Francois Vincent de Betsiamites), a 'French-Canadian indian',
recorded it in French: Le Cri de la Nation (not on the depicted LP)
Marvin Rainwater (1960, MGM 12865 as "Pale Faced Indian")
John D Loudermilk (1966, LP Sings a Bizarre Collection)
Roy Acuff Jr (1967, Hickory 1456)
Lewis & Clarke Expedition (1967, LP Earth, Wind, Fire & Water, group with young Michael Murphey)
Don Fardon (1967, Pye 25437; 1971 reissued on Youngblood)
Santo & Johnny (1968, LP On The Road Again, instrumental version)
Living Brass (1969, LP The Horse/ Grazing in the Grass And Other Hits, instrumental)
The Nashville Teens (1969, Major Minor 599)
The Hotvill's (1969, LP Slow and Soul Beat Party, French budget dance covers LP)
Nokie Edwards (1970, LP Nokie!, instrumental by ex-Ventures guitarist)
Paul Revere & the Raiders (1971, Columbia 45332 US #1 hit)
John D Loudermilk (1971, LP Elloree, weird WB-version)
Marco Polo (1971, Vogue DV11157, Weiße Man hat uns belogen, German lyrics)
Björn Skifs (1971, LP Opopoppa, Sweden)
Hawkey Franzén (1971, "Vi te Vakna", version in Swedish)
Per Carsten (1971, Triola TD 515, "Den lille kommunes klagesang", version in Danish)
Piloto (1971, 45 rpm EMI, Spanish version "Reserva India")
The Riders (1971, Odeon 8671, another "Reserva India", from Argentina)
Daniel (1971, Fonit SPF-31289, "Fra lacrime e la terra", Italian cover)
Jarkko Antikainen & Laura Ruotsalosta (1971, Decca 5761 as "Cherokee Heimo", Finnish version)
Robert Last & seinem Orchester (1971, LP Happy Dancing 4)
Frank Valdor (2LP Dynamic Man, German instrumental orchestral party music)
Hugo Strasser (1971±, LP Yesterday (Vom Twist zum Beat), a popular Bavarian dancehall band)
Frederik (Ilkka Sysimetsä) (1972, LP Tulin Näin Ja Voitin, another Finnish "Cherokee Heimo")
Jackie Rowland (1972, Sioux 015, a reggae version)
Funky Brown (1972, Sioux 018, another reggae version, now titled "African People")
The Jay Boys (1972, HarryJ 6644, "African People" in a Harry J mix)
The Indians (1972, LP Indian Reservation, an Irish showband)
Kiowarini (1973, "Le Cri de la Nation", cover by a 'French-Canadian Indian')
Liz Howard (Stardust 301, a Cherokee-blooded lady recorded in Nashville but released on a Scottish label)
Martin Circus (1975, LP No.1 Hits USA, French lyrics "L'amie des esprits")
Jan Rohde & Grabbarna (1975, LP Jan Rohde & Grabbarna, Scandinavian rocker)
Billy Thunderkloud & the Chieftones (1976, Polydor 14321, as "Indian Nation", Canadian Indian band)
Mike Theodore Orchestra (1977, LP Cosmic Wind, disco version)
Cherokee People (1977/78, CBS 5976, French disco version)
999 (1981, Albion 1023, UK punk)
Orlando Riva Sound (1980, Salsoul 333, top 10 hit Germany)
Turkey Bones & Wild Dogs (1985, mini-LP No Way Before The Weekend, Scottish punk)
Bad Sign (1986, LP Sleep Walk, Finland)
Pure Mania (1991, cd A dance with a stranger, Swedish punk rock)
Long Tall Texans (1991, cd Singing To The Moon)
DeeMona (1990, Pearl 19906, an Austian disco 45)
Radiacs (1991, LP Going Strong, UK psychobilly)
Ed Kuepper (1991, cd Honey Steel's Gold, Australian ex-Saints punker)
Muldoon Brothers (1992, cd Back o' the Barn, Irish)
Tim McGraw (1994, as part of his hit "Indian Outlaw")
Laibach (1994, cd Nato, lyrics adapted "National Reservation")
Kike Elomaa (1995, cd Kike Elomaa, Finnish version "Lapin Noita")
Masi Luomi (1995, cd Haitari Soi Louisianasta Läyliäisiin, another Finnish "Lapin Noita")
Tony Ronald (1996, cd Síntesis Vol.2, a poor cover)
Wild Ones (1996, cd Wild Ones Album, Japan 1970s group)
Don Fardon (1997, now doing a 'dance mix' of his hit, cd The Next Chapter: All The Hits And More)
Mark Lindsay (1999, cd Legends Live)
Mark Barfoot (cd Moved By The Spirits, Indian native flute instrumental)
Madlib ft. Jay Boys (2002, cd Blunted in the Bomb Shelter, new mix of the old "African People" reggae version)
Barbara Clear (2004, cd Live in der Olympiahalle München)
Fang & the Gang (2005, cd Fang Reveres the Raiders)
The Sounds (2007, cd Ta Gie-Giedakia No 2, as "Poios Einai Autos Pou Agapas" in Greek)
Blackhawk Walters (2008, cd Cowboys and Indians, this Indian was before a successful professional kickboxer)
Pat Fritz (2009, cd Bluer Than Blue, deep dark version with a long poem in German preceding the song)
Michael Searching Bear (2009, cd Ceremony)
Don't Turn On The Light
Loudermilk / Bob Forshee
Margie Bowes, a North Carolina country singer,
was married to Doyle Wilburn of the Wilburn Brothers. Sang at the Opry in 1959 and 1963.
In 2004, Margie had a foot amputated. Her foot was seriously injured in a vehicle accident in 1995,
and required numerous surgeries prior to the amputation.
Her 1960 Loudermilk song, a good, up-tempo hillbilly ballad, was one of John D.'s first songs in the long list of recordings for
Acuff-Rose and Hickory records in Nashville.
Margie Bowes (1960, Hickory 1124)
Falling Again
A good up-tempo song!
Porter Wagoner (1960, RCA 7770)
Throwin' Kisses
Bob Luman's original features Roy Buchanan on guitar.
First recorded for his 1960 LP, it was also released as a 45 in 1967 (Hickory 1460)
Bob Luman (1960, LP Let's Think About Livin')
Sue Thompson (1961, Hickory 1144)
Sheila Southern (1961, HMV pop 917, UK)
Meet Mr Mud
Also features Roy Buchanan on gtr. In 1964 released as a 45 (Hickory 1564)
Lyrics
Bob Luman (1960, LP Let's Think About Livin')
I Gotta Go (Because I Love You)
Hyland's record reached as high as #102, Billboard bubbling under.
←The song was covered by Brazilian Ronnie Cord (Ronald Cordovil), a singer from Sao Paulo who had a smash hit
with Brian Hyland's Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie.... After having recorded pop covers in English,
he later joined the Jovem Guarda movement and scored hit records in Portugese.
Cord died in 1986 of cancer.
Brian Hyland (1960, Kapp 363X, London 9262, UK)
Ronnie Cord (1961, LP Tonight My Love Tonight, Brasil)
The original version of the song by RCA guitarist Floyd Robinson was a minor hit Down Under.
The song made it big in France. Clip of Sylvie Vartan and Frankie Jordan performing the French hit version:
(← Click image to play the clip)
It was Sylvie's first recording, a duet with the the ex-dentist rock singer Frankie Jordan. Though she
sang the better half of the song, Jordan's name was in capitals on the sleeve, and Sylvie's in small print.
Sylvie continued to make it big in France while Jordan returned to be a dentist.
She later recorded a re-make with Pierre Palmade, now singing the 'male'-part of the song, and Palmade
the female part that actually suited him well!
Another rather bizarre cover is by the group Au Bonheur des Dames. A risqué version:
now it is a homosexual story of two truckers who, on the excuse of being out of gas, are having a wild night
with a lot of double entendre humour in the lyrics.
Floyd Robinson (1960), RCA 7827)
Frankie Jordan & Sylvie Vartan (1961, Decca 70734, French cover: "Panne d'essence")
Au Bonheur Des Dames (1988, LP Jour de Fête, as "Une panne dans la nuit", French neo-rock-humour)
Sylvie Vartan (1998, cd Irresistiblement Sylvie! with Pierre Palmade)
Antoine (2002, cd Élucubre au Petit Journal, part of a live medley-duet with Frankie Jordan)
Star Academy 3 (2003, cd Fait Sa Bamba)
Frankie Jordan & Noémie (2004, cd Les pionniers du rock Français: Le retour, live à l'Olympia)
Sylvain Cormier & Monique Giroux (2007, cd Le Cabaret des Refrains, Vol. 2)
Freddy And His Go-cart
Great teen-novelty song. Lyrics On the other side of the 45 Duncan did the first recorded version of Hello Mary Lou, the Gene Pitney song
that later would be a huge hit for Ricky Nelson.
This Duncan is the US singer of later C&W-fame, not the UK skiffle-artist
Lyrics: Who's that sneaking down the fire escape
Who's that peeking through the garden gate
Who's on the loose, but can't be found
Big Daddy's Alabama bound
Big Daddy's Alabama bound (2x)
Police is searchin' but he can't be found
Big Daddy's Alabama bound
Somebody ran off with the mayor's wife
Somebody tried to take the police chief's life
Somebody stole the judge's ragged old gown
Big Daddy's Alabamy bound...
Highway patrol and the F.B.I.
Is out huntin' this criminal
They got their hound dogs sniffin' the ground
Big Daddy's Alabamy bound...
Boots Randolph (1961 RCA 7835; 1967 Monument 1038, bubbling under hot 100)
The Willis Brothers (1961, Starday 45-570)
John D Loudermilk (1962, 12 sides of John D Loudermilk)
Lita Marino (1962, WB 5302, a #41 local break out on KJR-radio, Seattle, Washington)
The Orlons (1963, LP South Street, fast rocking doo-wop)
Sue Thompson (1964, Hickory 1240, bubbling under Billboard Hot100)
Les Triplées (1964, EP JAG 730003, French lyrics: "Grand père est plus jeune que nous")
The King Brothers & Virginia Mountaineers (1965?, Dixie 958)
Del Wood (1966, LP Upright Low Down And Honky Tonk)
The Browns (1967, RCA 9364, small C&W hit)
Chet Atkins (1968, LP Hometown Guitar)
Wanda Jackson (1968, LP The Many Moods Of)
Ted Daigle (1968± LP Ruby Don't Take Your Love To Town, Canadian country singer, song credited to Laudermilk)
Al Tercek and his Orchestra (1968±, LP Polka Power, as "My Polka Poppa" (is Transylvania bound!))
Del Reeves (1970, LP Big Daddy Del)
Kossi Gardner (1971, RCA 47-9963, on Hammond organ)
Jerry Reed (1971, LP When You're Hot, You're Hot)
Kenny Price (1971, LP Sheriff Of Boone County)
Danny Davis & Nashville Brass (1971, LP Super Country)
Bobby Allison (1975, LP NASCAR Goes Country, famous auto-racer ventures to sing)
Chet, Floyd & Boots (1987, cd Chet, Floyd & Boots)
Marcel Dadi (1992, cd La Guitare à Dadi Vol 2)
Ebony Eyes
Everly's tear jerker reached #8 on Billboard.
Coupled with Walk Right Back, this double A-sided record was a top hit all over the world.
→Acuff-Rose sheet music publication
Everly Brothers (1961, WB 5199)
Die Ramonas (= Gus Backus) (1961, Polydor 24565, German translation 'Annemarie' by American born Schlagerkönig)
Dickey Lee (1963, LP Tale Of Patches)
Bobby Russell (45 rpm SI 1142, not sure about date and label origin)
Bob Harvey (Starlite 11772)
Brendan O'Brien & Dixies (Pye 17121, a #2 chart hit in Ireland)
Gluntan (1970, LP Gluntan i Studio, Norwegian cover "Sannhetens øyeblikk")
Fumble (1972, LP Fumble, UK 70s rock)
Frankie McBride (1974, LP Sad Songs - Country Style, Canada)
Roy Alton (1975, Tackle 009, UK reggae in a strange, instable rhythm)
De Wiko's (1978, Philips 6075 024, Dutch translation "Vlucht 1203")
Het Landgraaf-Duo (Limbo 5285, Dutch 'piraten' 45rpm)
Orion (1978, LP Reborn, 'the masked man', an Elvis imitator)
The Calhoun Twins (2005, cd Easy Come Easy Go)
Hepie & Hepie (2007, cd Hepie & Hepie, again "Vlucht 1203")
Gray Bartlett (2008, cd 50th Anniversary, guitar instrumental)
John Latimer Law & His Ebony Sound (2009, cd Celtic Favorites)
Brendan Duncan (2010, cd Celtic Favorites Vol 2)
Stayin' In
Song about a stupid jerk who loses his girl to the he-man
of the school. Some radio stations banned this innocent song, because of its 1st line:
"I punched my buddy in the nose" (lyrics).
Same type of story on Bully Of The Beach and The File
Everly Brothers (1977, LP The New Album, a prev. unreleased 1961 recording)
Top Forty, News, Weather and Sports
Great song! First release had a line in the lyrics
about Patrice "Lumumba doin' the rumba to the tune of The Blue Tango".
On later releases that line was cut out (Congo freedom fighter Lumumba was murdered in January 1961
with a little help of the Belgian government), bluntly amputating the verse by one line.
Other news & music references in the lyrics: Eisenhower, Fidel Castro, Rockefeller,
Lolita, Brenda Lee, Nehru, Krutchev.
"The Great Snowman" has become a classic in Sweden, land with the highest population density of Snowmen, it seems.
The song is a must for every amateur band to have in their repertoire.
The popular dansbands play the song in English or with Swedish lyrics. Over the years, the lyrics have been
translated more than once, so the song has been recorded with song titles like:
Min dröm skall bli sann (My dream will come true),
Le Lite Mer (Smile a little more),
Du gick din väg (You went your way),
Då kanske drömmen slår in (Dreams may come true).
All these lyrics seem to deal with another story than the original song about Jimmy Jones, the Great Snow Man,
see Lyrics
Bob Luman (1961, WB 5204)
John D Loudermilk (1961, LP Language of Love, in Germany on a 45 on the b-side of Language Of Love)
Björn Tidman (1961, Triola 110, as "Snemanden", Denmark)
Bill Carlisle (1964, Hickory 1280)
Hillbilly Five (1964, LP Another Christmas Guitar And Songs, Sweden)
Key Notes (1965, Europa SE 07, Swedish 45 rpm credits Luman as composer)
Jörgens Orkester (1967, HB record 100245, Swedish translation "Le Lite Mer")
Bobby Bare & Hillsiders (1967, LP The English Country Side, Nashville singer coupled with Liverpool beat group gone country)
Hillbilly Five (1967, 45 rpm with their Swedish translation "Den store snömannen")
The Geezinslaw Brothers (1968, LP Chubby)
The Mercey Brothers (1968, LP The Mercey Brothers, Canadian brothers)
Flamingo Kvintetten (1969, LP Chin Chin, in Swedish: "Min dröm skall bli sann")
Jimmy Snyder (45 rpm on Lee)
Jeannie Denver (1975, Westwood WRS 100, UK country)
Säwes (1976, LP Dansa På 3, Swedish dansband)
Carols (1976, LP Svängiga Danslåtar, more from Sweden)
The Spotnicks (1978, LP The Great Snowman)
Mia Wester (1978, LP Ge mej din hand, Sweden)
Ty Tender (45 rpm by Austrian Elvis-imitating rocker)
Lennes (1979, 45 rpm Artside label, Swedish dansband)
The Streaplers (1979, LP Jubileumsalbum, Sweden)
Bohusländers (1980, LP Bohusländers, Swedish, this time titled "Du gick din väg")
Mats Rådberg & Rankarna (1981, LP All Time Country Favorites, Sweden)
Paul McCloud (1998, cd The Early Years, Australian neo-rockabilly)
Albateros (1999, cd På Vingerle, Danish version "Linda og Snemanden")
Andy Lee Lang (1999, cd American Christmas, Austrian neo-rocker)
Ryno Rockers (2000, cd Still Rocking)
Mats Bergmans (2002, cd Min Egen Ängel)
Canders (cd Lite av din tid, another Swedish dance band)
Gary Blackmore Band (cd Reminiscing, UK Country)
Paddy O'Brien (2003, cd Footsteps, Irish)
Lost and Found (2004, cd Lost and Found II, Texas folk duo)
Arvingarna (2005, cd 8, another Swedish 'dansband', as "Då kanske drömmen slår in")
The Pig Latin Song
I-ya ovla ooya, Pig Latin for I love you see lyrics Leadbelly also recorded (another) Pig Latin Song
Bob Luman (1961, WB 5204)
The Magic Strangers (1964, CNR 9697, Netherlands, Luman credited as composer)
Schurli und die Motorbienen (±1986, Plattewurm KM3, Austrian fun cover: "Ausgehen Heute Ausgehen")
If I Had The Right To Do You Wrong
Kitty Wells (1961, LP Seasons Of My Heart)
(You're) Too Late
Loudermilk/ Bill C Phillips
Phillips a composer and recording artist for Columbia
who also worked with Kitty Wells. This 1961 co-written song emerged first on Bill's 1977
LP on the Guinness label, looks like a compilation/ discount label
Bill Phillips (1977, LP The Bill Phillips Project)
Duo DD (1962, EP 50190, good Serbian cover "Jezik Ljubavi" by 2 girls, singing at high speed tempo)
Claude François (1963, EP Fontana 460863, French version "Langage d'Amour (Ou-bi-dou-bi-dou)")
Claude François (1964, Philips 373285, Italian version "Dubi Dubi")
Earl Sinks (1965, Hickory 1315)
Drafi (1965, Decca Y7299 (OZ), Decca F22353 (NL), German singer Drafi Deutscher on the b-side English version of his hit "Marble Breaks and Iron Bends")
Birgit & Iris (Electrola 23435, cover in German: "Shoo-Be-Doo-Be-Doo")
Teddy Robin & the Playboys (Diamond 256, top Hong Kong pop group)
Sue Thompson (1966, Hickory 1431)
Os Centauros (1967, LP Os Centauros, an instrumental swinging organ version by band from Rio de Janeiro)
Streaplers (1969, LP Bugga, Sweden)
Flamingo Kvintetten (1968, LP Jag Går Ut Med Hunden, Swedish version "Kärlekens Språk")
Leif Hultgrens (1976, LP Spå två, another Swedish "Kärlekens Språk")
Timo Panell (1976, M&T 1007, Finland as "Sinä Vain")
Jade Hurley (1979, LP 20 Golden Oldens Festival, by tv personality and Australia's King of Country-Rock 'n' Roll)
Peter Vesth (1988, tape cassette Bænkevarmer, Danish as "Kærlighedens sprog" in a live version)
Grönwalls (1994, cd En plats i solen)
Danilo (2001, cd Country Love, on a Norwegian various artists collection)
Lunch In A Bucket
A good, fast catchy teen song,
lyrics
Jimmy Bell, (← in the studio with Boudleaux Bryant and Floyd Cramer).
Jimmy was in fact Jimmy Sweeney, a black Nashville R&B singer/ songwriter who sang in the 1940s with the Five Bars
and later worked for Hickory Records. As 'Jimmy Bell' he had a big hit in Canada, doing
the original "She Wears My Ring", a song later to be covered by Elvis. It was the Boudleaux/Bryant adaptation
of the old Italian "La Golondrina". "Lunch in a Bucket" was intended to be the follow-up.
John Hore (1966, LP Country Gentleman, New Zealand)
Mister Jones
Loudermilk says he sang Mr Jones with his father-in-law (who was a rich store-owner) in mind.
In many other songs Loudermilk used the family name Jones.
There is a mother-in law "Miss Jones" figuring in He Can Be Your Baby,
and beside Angela Jones there is a Jimmy Jones (it was the Great Snow Man's name).
Then there is his The Jones' song, criticising the tv and journalism,
and finally Ben Jones who left widder Jones 25 acres of land.
Lyrics of Mr Jones
Scott Engel (1961, Liberty 55312), probably 1st release of the song; Engel
later as "Scott Walker" part of the Walker Brothers
John D Loudermilk (1961, LP Language of Love, 1962 RCA 7993)
Otto Brandenburg (1963, Odeon DK-1613, Denmark)
Conway Twitty (1964, LP Hit The Road)
The (Count) Bishops (1979, EP Chiswick 111, good UK boogie rock)
The record was released in the US in a picture sleeve.
Roberto Carlos, covering in Portugese as "O Calhambeque" (top: Brasil EP release, down: on a French EP)
Song is registered as being co-written by Gwen Loudermilk, JDL's first wife.
Gwen's contribution has been the remark "Good idea" when JDL told her about the idea to write a song about the
Nashville traffic Police.
The song is based on the old banjo traditional "Ground Hog". First recorded in 1924 by Land Norris on Okeh,
and covered by Pete Seeger, Guy Carawan, Doc Watson, etc etc. In 1959 folk group The Windjammers recorded a version,
produced by Chet Atkins and JDL.
Loudermilk added to the basic verses of Ground Hog his own catchy chorus "road-a-hog, beep beep! do-do-de-do-do".
It was that part that really turned it into a hit.
The song has been a big hit in South America. It hit the #1-spot in Brasil (November 1964) and
one year later #1 in Uruguay, Chile and #2 in Argentina.
It was one of the important songs of the Brazilian Jovem Guarda movement (=Young guards),
a very popular musical movement in the years of 1964-1970 with Roberto Carlos as its virtual leader.
It was a simple and naive type of music and jovem guarda was very underated by critics and so-called
serious Brazilian musicians (like the bossa nova people). But it always kept its fans among singers and composers
of other kinds of popular music, specially from "tropicália", another fine and rich musical movement
that happened in Brazil in the years 1967-1971 and had Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil as leaders. Today guys like David Byrne,
Beck and Sean Lennon are some of their fans.
The song gained at least three Spanish versions, variously called "Mi Cacharrito", "Mi Cochecito" and "Mi Cachivache"
(also substitute "El" for "Mi" where applicable).
Roberto Carlos (1964, EP CBS 5956, "O Calhambeque", Portuguese)
Roberto Carlos (1964, as "Mi Cacharrito" in Spanish)
Carlos Alberto (1964, another Brazilean "O Calhambeque" by a bolero singer who at the time sold more copies of the song than Roberto Carlos)
Los Iracundos (1964/65, as "El Cachivache" in Spanish by Argentinean group)
Ricardo y Los Holidays (1964, LP Los Holidays, "Mi Cacharrito", Venezuelan rock group)
Los Curramberos de Guyabal (LP Los Curramberos de Guyabal Vol II, "El Cacharrito", Columbia)
Piero y su Conjunto (1965, Philips 45rpm, Piero de Benedictis, born in Italy and moved to Argentina, hit the #1 spot in Chilean charts with this cover "El Cachivache")
Jorge Romero (1965, RCA 45rpm, Chilean cover "El Cachivache")
Helena Rocha (1965, EP Decca, "Calhambeque" by Portugese girl singer)
Joe Dassin (1965, CBS 2141, French cover, as "Bip Bip")
Os Velhinhos Transviados (1965, LP Embalados, Brazil, instrumental with some scat fun talk)
The Supersonics (1966, LP Mandando Brasa!, "O Calhambeque")
Santi Sans (1967, EP A la Cova del Drac, as "El meu Trastet", Comedian singing in Catalan language)
Topo Gigio (1968, EP Philips 441449, Brazilian "O Calhambeque" in children tv-series)
Os 3 Patinhos (1980, EP for children by the Brazilian version of Donald Duck's 3 little nephews, quacking "O Calhambeque")
Lulu Santos (1984, LP Todo Azul, Brazilian superstar doing another "O Calhambeque" style disco)
Angélica (1989, cd Angélica, Brazilian tv star doing "O Calhambeque")
Marcos Resende (1991, LP Tributo A Roberto Carlos, Brazilian instrumental, jazzy piano orchestral version)
El Compa Godo (1994, cd Compa Godo Y Su Banda La Ponderosa)
Caetano Veloso (1995, cd O Calhambeque, 30 Anos De Jovem Guarda Vol. 3)
Leonardo (1999, 2cd Ao Vivo, Brazilian country singer doing live "O Calhambeque")
Simba Musical (2002, cd Corazón de America, a Mexican "Cacharrito")
Silvana Cruz (2001, cd Ao Som dos Ventos, Brazilian "O Calhambeque", excellent jazzy interpretation)
Bebeto & Grupo Gamação (2002, cd Os Melhores do Ano 3, "O Calhambeque")
Renato Vargas (2002, cd , As Canções Que O Rei Cantou Vol II, "O Calhambeque")
The Breastfeeders (2006, cd Salut Joe!, French-Canadien "Bip-Bip" on a Joe Dassin tribute album)
Introvertido (2008, cd Tu Figura En La Pared, swinging version "Mi Cacharrito")
Road Hog was a giant hit in Brasil. Roberto Carlos' version "O Calhambeque" was covered by many Brasilian singers.
It also was an inspiration to a comic story by Brasilian artist Eugênio Colonnese, who made comics
about O Morto Do Pântano (= Swamp Zombie). Colonnese was ahead of his time. His Zombie
character was made long before American "Swamp Thing" was on the scene. He also conceived an original character Mirza, which later
seems to have been the inspiration for "Vampirella".
In Colonnese's 9-page story "O Calhambeque Vermelho" (1968), two shady scoundrels drive to the swamp
in their old red vehicle ("Calhambeque Vermilho") to dump a body. Each man has the plan to finish his rival afterwards.
But Swamp Zombie has noticed them enter his territory and in the end he gets hold of the old vehicle and the story
ends with him riding the Calhambeque and singing the lyrics of the song!
Left: "O Morto" doesn't like the surviving scoundrel to make fun of him,
center: and uses his weapon,
right: and drives off singing the chorus of "O Calhambeque"!
LP released 1963 in South Africa, pictures the original South African Blue Train
Song was released as a surprise hit in South Africa, where the songtitle had extra impact thanks to Suid Afrika's famous railroad line
between Johannesburg and Kaapstad (Capetown), die Blou Trein (Blue Train).
The song was recently revived by Doyle Lawson, who did a sparkling blue grass version
that got rewarded with the 2003 IBMA Award Song Of The Year.
John D Loudermilk (1961, LP Language of Love, 1964 C&W hit)
Betty McQuade (1962, Astor 7017, Australia)
Chris Baldo (1962, Decca 19614, Radio Luxembourg deejay sang it with German lyrics, but songtitle not changed)
Johnny Clark (1964, LP Sings The Big Ones, Canada)
Roy Acuff Jr (1968, Hickory 1515)
Frank Necessary & Stone Mountain Boys (1972, Jalyn 45-352)
Pat Boone (1973, LP I Love You More And More Every Day)
Ladislav Vodička (1973, Czech translation, text Michal Bukovič)
George Hamilton IV (1972/73, RCA 0854)
The Gap (LP Comanche Gap, UK Country)
Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver (2002, cd Hard Game Of Love)
Bjøro Håland (2007, cd Diamonds Are Forever, Norwegian country artist)
Billy Forrest (2008, cd The Long Black Train, South Africa)
Darling Jane
← Dorsey Burnette's release in a 1962 Dutch picture sleeve release.
The song was inspired by Loudermilk's interest in meteorology and especially hurricanes.
He would predict where a storm would land and drive to the location and stay with the people at the shelter.
Lyrics.
Sammy ("Oh Julie!") Salvo was a one hit-wonder artist.
But he sure deserved more: he recorded a lot of catchy, good rocking songs.
His Italian roots must have given him his great voice.
Lyrics
Sammy Salvo (1961, Hickory 1150)
John D Loudermilk (1962, 12 sides of John D Loudermilk)
Leon Schuster (1988, LP Dasiefoutie!! version in Afrikaans: "Boelie van die Strand")
Loudermilk's inspiration for "Bully Of The Beach" came from the advertisements for the "Charles Atlas System",
a body buidling course. In every 1930 and 1940 magazine a comic beach story illustrated how it worked:
'Are you tired of getting sand kicked in your face, I promise you new muscles in days!'.
Loudermilk isn't the only one to have made a parody on this.
Bernard "Willem"
Holtrop, the best cartoonist of the 20th century (at least that's how he will be judged
in 100 years), made his version in the 1970s, a short story "Monsieur Muscle":
Seems to come straight from the
lyrics of Bully Of The Beach:
Left: A great big bully kicked sand in my baby's face...
Center: She left with him arm in arm...
Right: So I went home and I ordered me a book on how to get to be big and strong!
Clip of John D performing Windy & Warm, in 2007, Ford Theater, Nashville TN, in the Series Poets And Prophets organised
by the Country Music Hall Of Fame And Museum:
(← Click image to play the clip)
John tells how he played the song for Chet Atkins, and Chet picked up a guitar and
finished the song before John could finish it, though John had written the song!
There's a load of pickers practising "Windy and Warm" on YouTube. Just enter the song title in the
YouTube search box and watch
the song being done by dozens of amateurs and professionals.
Loudermilk has shown an interest in weather phenomenons.
It was an inspiration to songtitles of some of his songs (Windy and Warm, Cloudy and Cool, Long Dry Spell),
also figures in "Darling Jane".
I've been told that a guy did the song in the 1960s who added lyrics to it. True? Who?
Chuck Kruger did a "Windy & Warm" in 1978, but it is another tune
Chet Atkins performing Windy and Warm in a Johnny Cash Show:
←EP by popular Swedish guitar band The Spotnicks
Chet Atkins (1961, RCA 7891)
Boots Randolph (1963, Monument 821, London 9798 (UK), sax-version)
The Ventures (1963, LP Surfing)
The Travelers (1963, Yellow Sand 72763, a #39 local chart entry in Tucson AZ)
The Spotnicks (1963, Hit in Europe: EP Polydor 50024 (France), alt. titled "Tormenta Calurosa" on Spanish (?) release)
Ken Levy & Phantoms (1964, LP Ken Levy & Phantoms, UK group successful in Sweden)
Johnny Kongos & G-Men (1964, LP It Is All Happening, 'South African Mersey Beat')
The Angels (1964, LP Happy Week-end with the Angels, Brasil jovem guarda beat)
The Strangers (±1964, unreleased acetate by Chicago guitar group)
Roy Penney (LP Twistin' The Pick, Canada)
Bill Kimber & Couriers (1965, LP Shaking Up A Storm, another South African guitar band)
Doc Watson (1965, LP Southbound)
Doc Watson (1979, LP Doc Watson Guitar Album, a 1968 live version with son Merle Watson)
F Troop Groop (1967, LP Everybody's Makin' It Big But U.S, Australia)
Arkay IV (1968±, surf/garage on compilation cd When We Was Younger Than Yesterday, 1996)
Dick McClish Quintet (Canada)
The Evans Sisters and Carl (LP Sing and Play 14 of your Requests, Canadian bluegrass)
The Humblebums (1969, LP First collection of Melodies, with Billy Conolly, but Gerry Rafferty not yet part of the group)
Ray Tate (1970, LP This Way Again)
Drifters Caravan (1970±, LP Run To The West, German band)
Country Gentlemen (1973, LP Yesterday and Today. Vol 2)
Tony Rice (1974, LP Guitar)
Ronnie Prophet (1975, LP Ronnie Prophet)
Marcel Dadi (1975±, recorded the song many times, live, with Chet Atkins, etc.)
Peter Bursch & Broselmachine (1978, LP I Feel Fine, German band of weirdos)
Peter Lang (1978, LP Back to the Wall)
Greg Harris (1979, LP Acoustic II)
Helmuth Franke & Friends (1979, LP Guitarland 3)
Yannick Huet (1981, LP Banjo express)
Dennis and Lori Cox (1981±, LP The Welcome Table)
Eric Schoenberg (1982, LP Steel Strings, titled: Warm and Windy!)
Paul Banks & Musikorkestret (1984, LP Twostep)
Andrew Pendelbury (1988, LP Tigerland)
The Saddle City Band (1989, cd The Tucson Album)
Counterpoint (cd Now & Then, Anthology 1986-94, UK surf)
Carl Perkins & Scotty Moore (1992, cd 706 ReUnion)
Buffalo Gil's (1992, cd Dédicaces)
Ticky Show (1992, cd Revival, band from Sweden, doin' it in a medley)
The Moody Brothers (1994, cd Guitar Boogie, JDL guest appearance)
Dan Kirchner & Ted Bailey (1994, cd Two Guitars)
Banjo Express Ensemble (1995, cd Best of USA - Banjo Furioso)
Los Coronas (1995, cd Los Coronas, Spanish 'surf guitar rock')
Jim Henry (1995, cd Jacksonville)
Phil Volan (1995, cd Favorite Colors)
Chet O'Connell (1995, cd Strat-A-Various)
Ben Stull (1995, cd Fine China)
Bill Bridges (cd Dreaming Of You)
Greenwood Tree (1996, cd Windy And Warm)
Ben Stull (1997, cd Fine China)
Richard Koechli (1997, cd Envoie-toi, Swiss guitar player)
Klaus-Jürgen Spannhoff (cd Mixed Emotions)
Michael O'Dorn (1998, cd Hand Picked)
Steve Howe (1999, cd Pulling Strings, live by former Yes-member)
Lester Peabody (1999, cd Goofin' Around, Finland)
Eric Lugosch (1999, cd Kind Heroes)
Búfalos d'Agua (1999, cd Ocean, neo surf rock from Brasil)
The Ragabillys (cd The Ragabillys, Australia)
Acoustic Guitar Summit (2000, cd Acoustic Guitar Summit)
Martin Stephenson (2000, cd The Disciples of Merle & Doc)
Nick Charles (2000, cd My Place)
Joe Lipman (2000, cd RMMGA CD Vol2, an acoustic guitarist newsgroup project)
Charley Simmons (2001, cd Full Circle)
Brian Gladstone (2001, cd Psychedelic Pholk Psongs)
Mike Hatch (2001, cd Pentimento)
The Goldfingers (2001, cd Destination Moon, Swedish neo guitar rock)
The Neon Spores (2001, cd The Last Live Show, US surf-rock)
Clyde Walker (cd Here And Now)
The Black Albino's (2001, cd Guitar Mania Vol 15, live by Dutch reunited 1960s beat group)
White Water (2002, cd Family Album)
Sam Pacetti (2002, cd Live at the Mill Top Tavern)
Chet Atkins & Jerry Reed (2002, DVD In Concert At The Bottom Line, 1992, an extra long live version)
Ben Prestage (2002, cd Instrumental Instability)
The Mariners (2002, cd Wrong Planet)
Jacek Spruch & the Old Time Band (2002, cd Live Satyrblues 2002, Poland)
Mark Newman (2002, cd Stories, old folk guitarist)
Richard Wiegel (2003, cd Out Of The Blue)
John Estes (2003, cd Dancin' Around the Banana Tree)
Adrian and Travis Hughes (2003, cd Just Pickin')
Double Take (2003, cd One Voice, Six Strings, Twelve Moods, bonus cd, Singapore jazz)
Tommy Emmanuel (2004, cd Endless Road, famous Australian guitar-player)
David Berchtold (2004, cd Things I've Seen)
David Bell (2004, cd I've Got Friends in COLD Places, steel guitar version)
Dick Scholten (2004, cd Waldini-Winterweelde, Dick introduces the song as "Tochtig & Vochtig", a very appropriate translation!)
Ed Peekeekoot (2005, cd Front Porch, Canadiasn guitarist)
Derek Coombs (2005, cd Apple Juice)
Meadowlark (2006, cd Windy and Warm)
Ed Matzenik (2006, cd The Big Guitar Party)
Richard Hudson (2007, cd Thinkin' of Chet)
Max Milligan (2007, cd Homage)
Kevin Wright (2007, cd Kevin Wright)
Steve Howell (2008, cd My Mind Gets to Ramblin')
Zane Charron (2008, cd Neither Here Nor There)
Brenda Power & P.T. Gazell (2008, cd Back To Back)
Adam Traum (2008, cd Meant To Be)
The Wright Kids (2008, cd Playing on the Job)
Richard Kiser (2009, cd Guitar Classics)
You Reap Just What You Sow
Song title another biblical inspiration,
Song was released for JDL on a 45 in South Africa (RCA 41659).
The Jan Sanders US-version, can anybody tell me more about this artist?
lyrics
John D Loudermilk (1961, LP Language of Love)
Jan Sanders (1962, Todd 1075)
Carmel Quinn (1965, LP Wonderful World of my Dreams)
Rhythm & Blues
Instrumental.
Original version features a very young Charlie McCoy on harmonica, probably his first recording session.
John D Loudermilk (1962, 12 sides of John D Loudermilk
What's The Use (To Take My Lovin')?
Good song, written in 1961, but first (?) released on a 1965 album
Sue Thompson (1965, LP Paper Tiger)
Your Girl
←the original 45 rpm on ACME, a small but interesting Kentucky label
Sylvie Vartan on an EP with the French "Quand le filme est triste".
A big hit in France. Also used in the soundtrack of Jean-Luc Godard's 1964 movie Une femme mariée.
Start of the career of Sue Thompson as a teenage idol.
Though Sue was already a 35 years old country music veteran at the time, mother of a teenage kid
and in her 3d marriage by then, her voice still sounded like an innocent teenager.
Sue's record hit #5 in the Billboard pop charts.
Lyrics:
He said he had to work so I went to the show alone
They turned down the lights and turned the projector on
And just as the news of the world started to begin
I saw my darling and my best friend walk in
Though I was sitting there, they didn't see
And so they sat right down in front of me
And when he kissed her lips, I almost died
And in the middle of the colored cartoon, I started to cry
Oh, sad movies always make me cry (2x)
So I got up and slowly walked on home
And mama saw the tears and said, "what's wrong?"
And so to keep from telling her a lie
I just said sad movies make me cry
Oh, sad movies always make me cry...
The song was a big seller in the Latin world. As "Filme Triste" in Brazil and
"Quand le film est triste" in France. Sylvie Vartan's French version was a big hit in France, the #26 hit of the year 1962
and it started off Sylvies career as one of the most important yéyé-singers of the 1960s.
A French-Canadian cover by by Michèle Richard, singer and tv-star.
The Chinese-Kantonese cover by Sakura Teng & the Quests, a popular 1960s group from Singapore. It was Sakura's
debut record.
Indo-rocking girl Greetje Mona, born Greetje Bozelie in Tiel, Netherlands, covered the song for the Dutch and Belgian market
on the Palette label. A good version, with an exotic touch of steel guitar. She also recorded as Gitte Mona a German version.
A later 1972 cover by Bob Smit (another indo singer) & Duke City Sextet, 'n Trieste Film, bears the mark of a Pierre 'Smurfing Father Abraham' Kartner production.
Sue Thompson (1961, Hickory 1153)
Lennon Sisters (1961, Dot 16255)
Carol Deene (1961, HMV POP 922 UK)
Sylvie Vartan (1961, RCA EP 76531, French version: "Quand le film est triste")
Pierrette Bruno (1961, EP Pathe 572, another "Quand le film est triste")
Dany Fischer (1961, EP Polydor 21793, again a French "Quand le film est triste", now in a 'male' version)
Towa Carson (1961, RCA 644, Swedish version "Trist story")
Dorthe (1961, Triola TD 45-150, Danish version "En sørgelig film")
Lil Malmkvist (1961-62, EP Säterjäntans Lördag, another Swedish "Trist story")
Sherry Blake (Budget cover EP JukeBox 4516)
Greetje Mona (1961, Palette 40094, good Dutch version "Ik moet altijd huilen om een trieste film")
Gitte Mona (=Greetje Mona) (1962, Palette 40118, version in German "Ich muß im Kino weinen")
Michèle Richard (1962, Meteor 318, "Quand le film est triste", Québécoise)
France Roger (another Québécoise "Quand le film est triste", weird musical arrangement)
Queta Garay (1962, EP, hit in Mexico: "Las Caricaturas me hacen Llorar")
The Peanuts (1962?, LP The Hit Parade Vol 2, Japanese version by popular twins Emi & Yumi Ito)
Sakura Teng (Columbia-EMI 557, Chinese version by Singapore pop singer)
Homer & Jethro (1962, LP At The Convention, parody "Bad Movies (Always Fracture Me)")
Floyd Cramer (Orchestral muzak version)
Trio Esperança (1962, Odeon 14811, "Filme Triste" giant hit in Brazil)
Demétrius (1963, Continental 78.212, another "Filme Triste")
Zé Fidelis (1963, Continental label, a Brazilian parody "Filme Besta" by famous comedian Fidelis)
Yeda Maria (1963, RCA, another Brazilian "Filme Triste")
Gloria Benavides (hit in Chile: "Las Películas Triste me Hacen Llorar")
Les 4 Cadillacs (1964, LP Les 4 Cadillacs, Brazilian first class studio musicians doing an instrumental version of the song, titled "Make Me Cry")
Franco's OK Jazz (±1964, BomaBango 2, French version by Africa's #1 musician Franco, sorcerer of the Congo guitar, vocals by Vicky Longomba and Michel Boyibanda)
Gloria Crawford (1966, Doctor Bird 1057, a great Duke Reid rock steady production)
Cyndy Starr & Mopeds (ska, 1960s)
Yes Indeed (1967, Triola TD347, Denmark)
Lisa & the Stylers (LP Top Hits by Lisa & John, Singapore)
Vilma Santos (1971, LP Sweet Sweet Vilma, Philippine version, by child movie star)
Eva Vivar (1970s, Alpha 189, Philippine girl doing a swinging version)
Bob Smit en Duke City Sextet (1972, 11 Provinciën 83/6.666, tearjerking Dutch version "'n Trieste Film")
Barbara Jones (1972, Double B 6920, good Jamaican reggae version)
Sir Harry (1972, Double B 6920, dub version "Movies Version" on the B-side of Barbera Jones' release)
Shawn (1974, MGM South 7033)
Lenore Somerset (1975, LP For Billy Joe)
Sueli (1976, another "Filme Triste" from Brazil on the Beverly label)
Cecilia Hong (1977, LP Carry On Till Tomorrow, Paloma Blanca, Asiatic album)
Rupert & Rolling Coins (LP At the Sonesta Beach Hotel and Golf Club, Carribean band)
Anne Kirkpatrick (1979, LP Shoot The Moon, version by Slim Dusty's daughter)
Nathalie Simard (1980, LP Je n'aurais jamais dû partir, "Quand le film est triste")
Boney M (1981, LP Boonoonoonoos)
Renate Jayne (cassette Music Music Music, Victoria, Australia)
Cynthia Schloss (1982, ONIKA 12" disco single, coupled with Hugh Brown rapping "Yu Better Go")
Anita Sarawak (1982, LP Cinta Kilat, version in Malay "Lagak Orang Kaya")
2 Belgen (1982, Antler 004, their debut 7", "Quand le film est triste").
A weird cover, Loudermilk's tune hard to make out, if present at all. One of these two Belgians, Rembert De Smet,
registered the song as his own composition, though in fact he shamelessly used the French lyrics
Georges Aber had written 20 years before for Sylvie Vartan's hit cover, and sticked them to a typical 1980s mechanised disco dance beat.
Priscilla Rollins (LP Volume 1, reggae from the Bahamas)
Audley Edden (1984, LP Sponger Moo, another one from the Bahamas)
Paul McCloud (1984, LP by Australian country neo-rocker)
Baby Jail (1987, translated the song in Swiss German dialect and had a minor radio hit)
Ledward Kaapana & Ikona (1989, cd Still Pressin', Hawaiian version)
Wawa (1990, cd Wonderful Tonight, Japan)
Sandy & Junior (1994, "Filme Triste", another Brazilian cover)
Pam Hall (1998, cd Bet You Don't Know)
Terry Gajraj (1999, cd Sweet Love Songs 2, Guyana's (male) sweetheart)
Coral Chavez (2000, cd Lo Siento, "Las Caricaturas", tex-mex version)
Jolina Magdangal (2000, cd On Memory Lane, Phillipine popular actress/singer)
Mark Atuaia (2000, cd M.A. Versatile from the Isles, Hawaiian Reggae)
Joy Adams (cd Covers)
Amelia Lomu Likiliki (version from Tonga)
Dennis Marsh (New Zealand, modern country)
Maneenuch (cd Golden Memories 2, Maneenuch Smerasut, Thailand's top singer and dancer)
Chico César (2001, cd Um Barzinho, Um violao, this cd attributes the song to "D. Laudermilk")
2A2 (2001, cd 2A2, Filme Triste by Brazilian group)
Solanna (2002, cd Solanna, Hawaiian version)
Alan O'Day (2003 WBCB Ronnie Allen Show, alternative lyrics "Sue Thompson
(Always Make Me Smile)", song about the career of Sue)
RZO (2004, Brazilian hip-hop used 1 line of the song in their rap Filme Triste)
Laurelyn Carter (2004, cd In This Life, US Country)
La Chilindrina (2004, 3cd 60Éxitos, Mexico, "Las Caricaturas me Hacen Llorar")
Susi & Fireballs (2005, cd Männer Gibt's Wie Sand Am Meer, German neo-rock)
Ray Knighton & Wanelle Collins (2005, cd Ray and Wanelle in Nashville)
Sula Miranda (2006, cd 30 Anos, Brazilian Filme Triste)
Ray (Knighton) & Wanelle (Collins) (2006, cd In Nashville, US Country)
Richard Clayderman (Forever Golden Collection Volume 3)
Lynne Toner (2007, 3-cd Kiwi Country Girls, New Zealand)
Twin Piano (2007, cd Twin Piano Instrumental Vol 6, cheap Malaysian muzak)
Original version by Dinning is a boring belcanto ballad. Nellie Rutherford
turned it into a soulful ballad. This was done again by Nina Simone, great laid-back version, later copied by Norah Jones.
Nina had changed the original lyrics quite a lot, see lyrics
Also exists some Scandinavian cover of the song: Gör Mig Het
Mark Dinning (1961, MGM 13024)
Nellie Rutherford (1962, Hickory 1172)
Nina Simone (1967, LP Silk & Soul)
Norah Jones (2000, cd Come Away With Me)
Robinella (2001, cd No Saint, No Prize)
Jan Preston (cd The Piano Has The Blues, New Zealand's 'Queen of Boogie Piano')
Rhythm & Blue (2003, cd Adios Kansas, a Duke Univ NC a-cappella group)
Janelle Lauer (2003, cd Live at Liars)
David Hughes, Tom Tally, Richard Dodd, Ruth Bruegger, Jean Sudbury, Chad Wright (2003, cd The String Quartet Tribute to Norah Jones, terrible instrumental muzak version)
Ruthie Foster (2004, cd Stages, good Texas blues version)
Eugenia Méndez (2004, cd Embrase-moi, as Tu m'embrases
(I would think correct French should be 'embrasses'), French lyrics sung by jazzy Venezuelan lady)
Joe Camilleri, The Relevators (2004, cd I Believe to my Soul: The Best of 1977-2003)
Patreece DeArmond (2005, Pete Verbois home made recording)
Connie Rouse (2005, cd A Love Like This)
Chili Chicks (2007, cd Chili Chicks, C&W by 3 Austrian girls)
Bossa Norah (2007, cd The Bossa Nova Tribute to Norah Jones)
Deni Hines & James Morrison (2007, cd The Other Woman, Australia)
Lorna Reid (2008, cd Gypsy In My Soul)
Christian Pschorr (2008, cd Smile)
The Popettes (2009, cd Back to Back: Norah Jones & Katie Melua)
Jaziel Vaugh'hann (2010, cd Heaven Only Knows)
(He's My) Dreamboat
US #14 pophit; Connie also recorded a song Traumboot (=German for Dreamboat),
but that song is no Loudermilk cover but an original German Charly Niessen composition.
Peter Niemann (1961, Telefunken 55395, German version)
Ma Baker's Little Acre
First version by Norris Wilson was released as "Ma Baker's Island".
Lyrics
Norris Wilson (1961, Monument 453)
John D Loudermilk (1966, LP Sings a Bizarre Collection)
John D Loudermilk (1971, LP Elloree, WB version)
Rocks of Reno
Lyrics Song was released on a 45 in Germany as the b-side of Google Eye (RCA 47-8530)
John D Loudermilk (1961, LP Language of Love)
Bob Luman (1962, WB 5255)
In A Matter Of Moments
Good cover by Louise Cordet, an ex-convent schoolgirl and
related to Prince Philip. Louise toured with the Beatles in 1962. Her version was the B-side of
her hit I'm Just A Baby that charted #13 in the UK.
Mark Dinning (1961, MGM 13048)
Louise Cordet (1962, Decca F11476 UK)
Jimmy's Song
(Jimmie's Song)
The original lyrics spell it Jimmy's song,
the LP release Jimmie's song
John D Loudermilk (1961, LP Language of Love)
Tommy Sands (1961, Capitol 4660)
Love Is A Dangerous Thing
Fast, swinging song (lyrics)
with a lot of doo-woppin' pa-pa-depa-pa-pom by Melson
who is best known as co-writer for Roy Orbison
Joe Melson (1962, Hickory 1175)
Madam Rosy
Song about a fortune teller: Madam Rosy with the crystal ball,
I saw your sign outside, it said you knew it all... etc
Sue Thompson was told by Phil Everly that he did it originally as "Norma" but it never got off the ground.
Sue: "I first did not want to record it, my delivery was real slow at that time, and I thought, I can't sing that fast song.
But they talked me into it and I loved it afterwards of course."
It was Sue's biggest hit, follow up to Sad Movies, and peaked #3 in Billboard's Hot 100..
In 2002 a 'male' version of the song was recorded by rock cult band NRBQ.
The boys knew the song from the Sue Thompson version and changed the title into 'Norma',
singing 'Only girl I love to kiss, is my baby Norma' where Sue sang
'There's a dress that I've got to sew and wear for Norman', etc.
The band was amazed to hear they unconscious used the song title JDL original had had in mind.
The song inspired a number of fun versions. In 1966 Australian Donna Gaye recorded it as "Normie",
an ode to Normie Rowe, Aussie's teen favourite at the time. Lyrics changed a little here and there
with references to Tony (Worsley), Peter (Doyle) and Mike (Furber), other competing Australian singers.
The first released batch misprinted a "Mills/Loudermilk" co-authorship on the label.
In Spanish a comic version "Tomas" was a hit record and recently there was a Danish disco parody by Diskofil and
a Dutch version about "Normen & waarden", ridiculising the christian-conservative political theme of Fortuyn and Balkenende.
Three European sixties covers: Sweden (as "Charlie"), France (as "Gontran") and Germany (just "Norman").
Sue Thompson (1961, Hickory 1159)
Carol Deene (1962, HMV POP 973, UK #24 hit)
Ginette Sage (1962, Apex 13245, French (Canadian) cover "Normand")
France Roger (another Québécoise "Normand")
Arielle (EP Barclay 70449, another French cover "Gontran")
Dany Mann (1962, Electrola 22082, German version, big hit in Germany)
Wenche Myhre (1962, Triola 281, as "Normann", cover in Norway)
Willeke Alberti (1962, PF 318692, Dutch cover top 10 hit; she also sang it in German)
Gonnie Baars (1962, Artone 25131, another Dutch cover)
Helen Reeves (1962, Discofoon 3510, budget label cover, Holland)
The 3 Jacksons (1962, Philips 318 799, part of their "Accordeon Potpourri No 50")
Anita Lindblom (1962, Fontana 271204, Swedish version "Charlie")
Bente Merete (1962, RCA 45-1075, in Danish as "Charlie" covered)
Gloria Benavides (Chilean cover, she sings it in English)
Wander Lee (1962, Musidisc label, Brazilian cover, "Norman" in Portuguese by girl singer Wanderly Regina, backed up by the Ed Lincoln combo)
Poly (1962, Continental label, instrumental cover by successful Brazilian steel guitarist/ band leader)
Tuulevi Mattila (1962, Philips 340579, cover in Finnish)
Rauni Pekkala (1962, Broadway 122, Finnish)
Jolly Land (±1962, Argentina)
Quique Roca Su Conjunto Müsico Vocal Y Claudia (Hispavox HH 17-218, Spanish "El Gran Tomás")
Mayté Gaos (1962, LP on RCA, Mexico, another "El Gran Tomas")
Donna Gaye (1966, Kommotion 1314, hit in Australia, titled "Norman-Normie")
Del Wood (1966, LP Upright Low Down And Honky Tonk)
Danny Davis & Nashville Brass (1971, LP Super Country, instrumental version)
Maureen Elkner (1975, M7 111, as "Normie", B-side of Australian hit "Rack Off Normie!")
Barbara Lee (45 rpm on Emerald 3309, a Nashville label)
Bjørn & Okay (1979, LP Live i Aften, in Danish now entitled "Susan")
Song written and recorded in 1962, but it took 4 years to be released
Sonny James (1966, LP Young Love & Other Songs Of Love)
Belonging To You
Bob Luman (1962, WB 5272)
I Can't Hold Your Letters (In My Arms)
Good up-tempo country song.
Tommy Zang (his real name) was a charming singer from Kansas City,
with an incredible voice. Tommy had some minor successes but failed to get the big break he deserved. He died a few years ago.
One of Loudermilk most interpreted and performed songs.
The song was written in January 1962.
Loudermilk remembers about first recording the song on dub with Don Gant and Norro Wilson:
"Now it was Don Gant who suggested: John, you need to repeat that line 'then it don't work out, then it don't work out...'.
And that was a good idea, it sounded good, it was a little hook, you know."
←First release was in the fall of 1962 by Don Cherry on the Verve label, a subsidiary label of MGM. The 45 did not sell.
This Don Cherry is not the famous jazz performer, but a crooner who had a 1956 million seller with "Band of Gold"
(not the Freda Payne song) and became a professional golf player in 1962. He golfed his way into the top 10 US open and had a career of 30 holes-in-one.
Nowadays, at the age of 80, Don still plays golf and performs as a singer.
Loudermilk's first release of the song was on a South African 45 (RCA-657),
where it was intended to be a follow-up to JDL's local chart success Blue Train.
This version was with strings orchestration and Anita Kerr chorus backing. In the US the version
with Kerr and strings was released in 1965 as B-side of That Ain't All (RCA 47-8579) .
Later a superb version was recorded by Loudermilk for his 1967 Suburban Attitudes' album. A strong and simple version,
strings, orchestration and chorus singers omitted, just John D. in a relaxed, acoustic version.
←Second American release is the cover by Johnny Tillotson on his 1964 album, recorded as a country song.
Johnny Nash picked it up for his 45 release on Argo.
→Sheet music for the early Australian and UK-release in 1965 by Australian Patsy Ann Noble. She came from a
musical family: father a well known comedian/ singer, mother a choreographer. Patsy delivered a tasty version, with soulful organ and chorus.
The song finally was made a US-hit in 1967 by the Casinos, who had heard the version of Johnny Nash on the radio.
Their version was a sugar-sweet castrate belcanto of lead-singer Hughes drowning in a pool of orchestral arrangements.
And it was this recording that finally appealed to American taste and made it big on the charts.
Afterwards even worse versions were cut by all sorts of crooners.
→Cover of the 1967 Casinos LP on the Fraternity label.
Picture cover release by Toby Beau (Cashbox #68 hit in 1979) and a Mexican release from 1968 by Los Blue Angels, who sang it as
Despues me dices adios.
Lyrics:
Kiss me each morning for a million years
Hold me each evening by your side
Tell me you love me for a million years
Then if it don't work out
Then if it don't work out
Then you can tell me goodbye
Sweeten my coffee with a morning kiss
Soften my dreams with your sigh
After you've loved me for a million years
Then if it don't work out
Then if it don't work out
Then you can tell me goodbye
If you must go I won't grieve
If you just wait a life-time before you leave
If you must go I won't say "no"
Just so we can say that we tried
Tell me you love me for a million years
Then if it don't work out
Then if it don't work out
Then you can tell me goodbye
John D Loudermilk (1963 RCA 41657 (South Africa), 1965 RCA 8579 (US))
Johnny Tillotson (1964, LP Tillotson Touch)
Johnny Nash (1964, Argo 5479)
Patsy Ann Noble (1965, Columbia 4560 Australia, Col 7472 UK)
Sandy Mason (1965, MGM 13393)
Al Martino (1965, LP We Could)
The Staccatos (1966, PYE PY69, South African group with Steve Lonsdale)
The Casinos (1967, Fraternity 977, #6 pophit)
Jalopy Five (1967, Hit Records 283, in fact Bobby Russell recording for Nashville budget label!)
Frank Ifield (1967, Hickory 1486)
William Bell (1967, LP Stax SRAX719)
Lawrence Welk (1967, Dot 17001)
Lou Rawls (1967, LP Too Much!)
Andy Williams (1967, LP Born Free)
The Spiffys (1967, LP US Naval Academy)
David Garrick (1967, LP Don't Go Out Into The Rain)
The Generation Combo (1967, LP Meet The Generation Combo)
Paco Cañedo, (1967, LP on Eco 616, as "Escribe Pronto" Mexican cover)
Martha y Los Ventura (1968, CBS 577, another Mexican cover "Puedes decirme adiós")
Little Joe & the Latinaires (LP Unbeatable!, Tejano music from Texas)
Eddy Arnold (1968, RCA 9606)
Billy Vera (1968, LP With Pen In Hand)
Solomon Burke (1968, LP I Wish I Knew)
Anita Ortez (1968, LP Catch The Wind, Canada)
Pete Williams (1968, LP Songs You Wrote Requesting, Pete had a C&W show on WRGB-tv in NY)
Los Blue Angels (1968, EP RCA MKA-1028, Mexican version: "Despues Me Dices Adios")
Bettye Swann (1968, LP The Soul View Now!)
The Bye-Laws (1968, PYE 7N 1748, Ireland)
The Ray Charles Singers (1968, Command 4103)
The Red Dogs (1968, cd Live at The Red Dog Inn 1968, Kansas garage band)
The Coconuts (LP Palmares des vacances, French West-Indies)
Jack Greene (1969, LP Until My Dreams Come True)
Billy Vaughn Orchestra (1969, LP Nashville Saxophones)
The 5th Dimension (1960s, prev. unreleased, cd Ultimate Collection)
Stan Hitchcock (1969, LP Honey I'm Home)
Bobby Hutton (1969, Philips 40601, soul, not the Black Panther martyr;
don't know why, but this 45 is often being sold for ridiculous prices at eBay, $150 and more,
though it isn't rare -being offered a few times a year-, it seems to be a Northern-soul collectors item...)
Cornelia (1969, RCA 42103, South African cover)
Bil Medley (1969, LP Soft and Soulful)
James Brown (1969, LP Say It Loud I'm Black And I'm Proud,
in a medley with (appropriate!) "Don't play that song, don't play t no more")
Gene Rondo (1969, Down Town 431, good juicy reggae version)
Joe White & Fugitives (1969, GayFeet 7109, another Jamaican "If It Don't Work Out")
Pat Kelly (1969, GAS 125, reggae hit version, label title on the UK 45rpm "If It Dont Work Out" by "Pat Kelley" (sic!) )
Jeff Barnes (1970, Jackpot 758, as "Work Out" a funny talk over record over the Pat Kelly hit)
Arthur Prysock (1970, LP Fly My Love, warm dark-brown voiced crooner)
Dennis Alcapone (1971, LP Guns Don't Argue, good Bunny Striker Lee product, "If It Don't Work Out")
Jiří Vašíček (Czech crooner with Gustava Broma Orch., as "Ma s tatou kriz")
Ace Cannon (1975, LP The Very Best)
Glen Campbell (1970, Capitol 4245, C&W #4, medley coupled with Don't Pull Your Love)
Otis Waygood Band (1970, Decca F13760, Rhodesian band with a UK released 45 rpm)
The Buckinghams (cd Everlasting Love (Sessions))
Danny White (1970, Grand Prix 4 45 rpm)
Barbara Lynn (cd Crazy Cajun Recordings, early 1970s recording)
The Mohawks (1971, Pama 324, UK Reggae)
The Thirteenth Amendment (1971, Whit 6910)
Slim Smith (1972, GreenDoor 4058, another reggae "If It Dont Work Out", Slim used the same backing track as Pat Kelly did in 1969)
Mack Allen Smith (1972, LP Saturday Night With Mark Allen & Flames)
Hank Williams Jr & Lois Johnson (1972, LP Send Me Some Lovin')
Gene and Debbe (1972, Hickory 1643)
Maurice Ward (1973, Lashawn 009, by WRAP deejay a.k.a The East Coast Rapper)
Perry Como (1975, LP Just Out Of Reach)
Freddy Fender (1975, LP Before The Next Teardrop Falls), Freddy also sang it as "Entonces Me Dices Adios"
Nancy Tabb Marcantel (1975, LP Ma Louisiane, bayou-French version Et puis tu peux me dire adieu)
Wolfman Jack (1975, LP Fun & Romance, Wolfman Jack sings..., a duet with Merry Clayton)
Bobby Rydell (on div compilation cd's)
Dora Hall (LP The Country Hits Series 2)
Gene Hughes (1975, King 2002, former Casinos lead singer doing it again)
Johnny Clarke (1975, Micron 2408, another "If It Don.t Work Out" shufflin' reggae")
The Emery's (1977, Clifton 19, Doo-wop)
Merv George (1977, LP Recorded Live)
Roman Stewart (1978, Harrie J Records 809, as "If It Don't Work Out", Jamaican disco 12 inch)
Sammi Smith (1978, LP New Winds, All Quadrants)
Soft Thunder (LP Soft Thunder)
David Simmons (1978, LP Hear Me Out, soul)
The Manhattans (1978, LP There's No Good In Goodbye)
Toby Beau (1979, RCA 11670)
Sal Anthony & Du Wop Shop (1980, Sal-James Records 1)
Jim Ritchey (on a 45 rpm)
Taffy McElroy (1981, MCA 51160)
Victor Tavares (1981, Polydor 2095-386 (Belgium), former Tavares singer)
Mark Thomsen (1982, LP New Beginning)
The Blues Boys (1980s, LP Greatest Hits Vol 1, New Orleans all star band backing up mayor Aaron Broussard of Kenner, LA)
Oscar Perry (1983, Red Sun Records 10-113, cajun blues)
Mickey Gilley (1983, LP You've Really Got A Hold On Me)
Darlene Austin (1984, Myrtle Rec. 1003)
John Holt (1984, LP A Love I Can Feel)
Van Broussard (1960s?, cd Bayou Boogie Fever)
Tracy (Huang) (1986, LP Paradise In My Heart)
Johnny Mathis (1989 cd In The Still Of The Night)
Fern K. White (1990, Clouds CLS 017, 12" single)
Wes Homner (1992, cd New York Nights & Tennessee Dreams)
Maria McKee & Lone Justice (1993, cd A Collection of Rarities 1992-96)
Susan (Jacobsen) (1994, cd Timeless)
We B-50 (1995, cd WE-B 50)
Neal McCoy (1996, Atlantic 70535, top 10 hit)
Joe Bean Esposito (1996, cd Treated and Released)
Dean Chance K. (1996, cd Tonight)
Robbie Cumming (1997, cd Wild Geese, UK country)
David Hasselhoff (1997, cd Hooked On A Feeling)
Daniel O'Donnell (1998, cd Love Songs, Irish clean cut crooner)
Holiday Band (1999, cd Shotgun Boogie, tasty soulful version with Whiter-Shade-of-Pale organ)
The Fabulous Hupcaps (1999, cd Silver Anniversary)
Donny Gerrard (1999, cd The Romantic, ex-Skylark singer)
Streetside (1999, cd HAPP-E-2-C-U-A-GINN, US acapella doo-wop group)
Chicory Tip (2000, cd Chicory Tip in 2000, reunion of the 1970s UK teeny bopper band)
Bruce Caldwell (2000, cd Evening Songs, sax instrumental)
Dobie Gray (2000, cd Soul Days)
Ian Griffin (cd In the Penny Arcade, from Wales)
The Attractions (NC Showband)
Doc Scanlon's Rhythm Boys (2000, cd Rumble Seat)
The Wolf River Band (2001, cd From Pow Wows To Honky Tonks, native American country)
Rhodes Tavern Troubadours (2001, cd Americana Motel)
Phil Edwards (2001, cd Wild and Free, France retro rocker)
Bill McIntosh (2001, cd Solid Gold Sax)
Johnny Rivers (2001, cd Last Train To Memphis, with a parlando)
Joe Barbieri (2002, cd Times Revisited, Italy)
Buddy Jewell (2003, cd Nashville Star)
Dennis Caplinger (2003, cd Pickin' On Buddy Jewell, instrumental blue grass)
The Manfreds (2003, cd Uncovered, British 1960s beat veterans still recording after 40 years)
John D Loudermilk (1962, 12 sides of John D Loudermilk)
Jim Nabors (1965, LP Shazam! Gomer Pyle U.S.M.C.)
Bill Carlisle (1968, Hickory 1502)
Boyce Hawkins (1968/69, RCA 9700)
Commerce Street & 6th Avenue North
Though words and music are registered as Loudermilk's,
music is in fact the traditional standard Great Speckled Bird / Wild Side of Life;
lyrics refer to a location in downtown Nashville
←Covered in French by beat group Les Lionceaux. They tried to give Google Eye in French the meaning of a dance,
"c'est le vrai Google Eye, un serie de pas compliqués" so a girl asks
help with the dance but the singer refuses... Funny song, driven beat, more interesting than what the Nashville Teens made of the song.
John D Loudermilk (1962, 12 sides of John D Loudermilk)
Sheb Wooley (1962, LP That's My Pa And That's My Ma)
Big Pete Deuchar & His Country Blues (1963, Fontana 267278, UK banjo-man, released in the US as "Big Pete Duker")
Ramsey Kearney (1964, Hickory 1251)
Nashville Teens (1964, London 9712, Decca F12000 (UK), top 10 UK, US bubbling under)
The Jaybirds (1964, Embassy 663, UK band with 19 years old Alvin Lee before 10 Years After)
Dandy Swingers (1965, HMV X 8465, Danish beatgroup)
Les Lionceaux (1965, Mercury 154038, "Le vrai Google Eye" version in French)
Los Zignos (1965, RCA 76-2194, Mexican version "El escritor criminal")
Rangers (1969, cd 21x Plavci Potreti, Czech)
John D Loudermilk (1971, LP Elloree, WB version)
The Hillsiders (1975, LP To Please You, UK country)
Roger Whittaker (1975, MFP 10054)
Plavci (1980, LP On The Country Road)
Clint Miller (1993, mini-cd Spirit of the Flag, former rockabilly artist of "Bertha Lou" fame recording once more, at the time Clint was Judge and running for Governor of Virginia!)
The Little Lunch Box
This song could well be written end 1950s, is there an earlier recording?
George Hamilton IV (1963, LP Abilene)
Thou Shalt Not Steal
Another songtitle inspired by the Bible.
Lyrics On a Kitty Wells compilation on the Bulldog label her Thou Shalt Not Steal
was mistakenly attributed to JDL, but she sang another song: the same titled 1954 Don Everly composition.
←The hit version: by Dick (Richard St. John Gosting) and DeeDee (Mary Sperling), here on a cover of French EP.
Dick died in 2003 (after a fall from a ladder), DeeDee has made
a great web site
John D Loudermilk (1962, RCA 7993, Billboard #73)
The Newbeats (1964, LP Bread and Butter, Hickory 1539 in 1969 bubbling under)
Dick & Dee Dee (1964, WB 5482, took the song from the Newbeats 1964 LP; Billboard hit #13)
Glenda Collins (1965, HMV POP 1475 UK)
I Campioni (1965, CGD N9559, Italian group with their cover version "Vieni Al Mare")
The Staccatos (1966, PYE PY115, South African group)
Mack White (1976, Commercial 1315)
Kangaroo
First lines: "Way down in Australia they do a dance
that'll really slay ya, called the Kangaroo, Hop, hop!" Fast song, "twist tempo".
More information about singer Cynthia Muse in section below.
Cynthia Muse (1962, Dot 16335)
Who was Cynthia Muse, who recorded this hopping dance song, Kangaroo? I did some research, but all in vain,
until Cynthia herself found my site and mailed me! She sent a 1962 promotion picture of hers and wrote:
My aunt Olive "discovered" me when I lived in Florida in late 1961.
My favorite singer was Brenda Lee at the time and I would listen and sing every song that she recorded.
My aunt heard me singing. She was a friend of the President of DOT Record Co., Randy Wood, contacted him and said,
"you must listen to my niece Cynthia".
From there, it went very fast. The next thing I knew I was back in Tennessee and practicing in the studio of
Beasley Smith in Nashville. I can remember sitting with him at his piano and singing until I was hoarse.
We recorded in Nashville, TN and in the 60's, unlike today, when you met to record everyone was there at the same time in the studio.
Later, I found out that I had the best musicians and singers at the time in the studio. The Anita Kerr Singers were
the backup singers for 'High School Play' (B-side of 'Kangaroo'). If memory serves me correctly, on 'Kangaroo' several
Jordanaires were there; the 'Hop, hop' was done by
Ray Walker.
From there, when the 45 was released, my aunt Olive and I traveled the roads of Middle Tennessee
visiting every radio station that would let us in and I frequented the 'Eddie Hill Show' many times during the remainder of 1962.
I would cringe when he introduced me as 'the little darling of tv'. I also sang at many area events with local bands.
In my small hometown of Hartsville, TN, I was a celebrity and to this day when I revisit and see people they will say
they remember my tv appearances and my record.
Cynthia recorded just this one 45 rpm record. She was a young 13 year old back then. Cynthia now is an elementary school teacher in Tennessee.
She still enjoys singing and always asked why she didn't pursue that career: "I guess the timing wasn't right", Cynthia says.
Thank you, Cynthia Muse for sharing your memories!
Baby Don't Pout
Norris began as RCA-session man, worked a lot with JDL; later used the name "Norro Wilson",
famed as co-author of "The Most Beautiful Girl".
The catchy song Baby Don't Pout was a KDWB Top 40 hit in the Twin Cities region of Minnesota.
Bob Forshee, co-writer of this song, was a University of Missouri graduate and former school teacher,
who went into music business in the early 1960s. Forshee and Loudermilk wrote at least 4 songs together,
of which 2 were recorded and released.
Original title was The Little Bird, later to become the more natural This Little Bird.
Hit all over the world.
Lyrics
←1965 English sheet music to Marianne Faithfull's hit. In the UK it was a top 5 hit, in the US it reached the #32 position.
→EP with the French version Et s'en vient le temps by Richard Anthony.
John D Loudermilk (1962, 12 sides of John D Loudermilk)
Nashville Teens (1965, MGM 13357, Decca 12143 UK)
Marianne Faithfull (1965, London 9759, "This Little Bird")
Marianne Faithfull (Italian version: "Un Piccolo Cuore")
Barron Knights (1965, Columbia DB 7780, part of pop parody medley "Merry Gentle Pops part 1")
Richard Anthony (1965, EP Columbia 1687, French version: Et s'en vient le temps,
a 1996 cd lists composer: John Loudermilq !)
Anki (Lindqvist) (1965, Columbia 121 as Pieni Lintu, hit in Finland)
Marion Rung (1965, Philips 340717 Pieni Lintu)
Joe & Eddie (1965, LP Walkin' Down The Line, Joe Gilbert & Eddie Brown, popular black folk duo)
Johnny Kongos & The G-Men (1965, LP Oh Boy!)
The Lions (1965, Triola TDL 211, Danish beatgroup)
←The 1980 single release by French punk cult artist
Hermine Demoriane.
An interesting person, she married English poet Hugo Williams,
played in the punk movie Jubilee (1977), recorded a few records (like Nico, her inability to sing was a charming advantage),
studied and practiced tightrope walking and wrote a book "Tightrope Walker" about it, designed her own character font, etc.
Her debut 'Torture' originally was intended to be released by Virgin, but the deal went down.
The story goes that already 20,000 sleeves had been printed. Hermine crossed out 'Virgin',
stamped "Salome Disc" instead (dedicated to Lou Andreas Salome) and stamped the song titles on the blank record labels.
This way 2,000 copies were made as a private label release.
Hermine used the remaining 18,000 sleeves to decorate her house.
Kris Jensen (1962, Hickory 1173, #20 Billboard)
Tony Rocco (1962, Parlophone 4946 UK)
Petula Clark (1962/63, French: "Coeur Blessé", later she recorded it in Italian: "Pagherai" and Spanish "Tortura", see below)
Carmen Déziel (1963, Meteor 328, Canadian release "Coeur Blessé")
Sally Wills (1963, Ronnex 20323 as "Zo'n Verdriet", Belgium)
Alberto Cortez (1963, Hispavox EP HH17-232, as "Tortura" by Argentinian "Mr Sucu Sucu")
Margot Eskens (1963, Polydor 52095, German version "Coeur Blesssé, Armes Herz")
Petula Clark (1963/64, Vogue 45 rpm, her Italian version "Pagherai", an Italian #16 chart hit in 1964)
Cocky Mazzetti (1963, Primary 45 rpm, another Italian "Pagherai")
Betty Curtis (1964, another "Pagherai")
Everly Brothers (1964, WB 5478, good version)
Petula Clark (1965, EP Vogue HV 27-135, Petula's Spanish version "Tortura")
Gene Rockwell (1965, big #1 hit in South Africa)
Hi-Spots (Swedish beat group)
The Mark Two (1966, HMV EA4779, Australia)
Javier Vega (1968, Rex 150, Mexican version "Tortuta")
Robert Gordon (1980, LP Bad Boy)
Hermine (1980, Salome Disc, see story ←)
Butch Baker (1984, Mercury 818379)
Kim Salmon & Surrealists (1988, LP Hit Me With The Surreal Feel, Australian arty-alternative pop)
Tav Falco (1991, New Rose 155)
D.B. Harris & His Men Of Action (2004, cd Contagious Heartache, duet with Susanna Van Tassel)
Chile Nights
Instrumental.
The Minute Men (who were they actually?) brass orchestral, Jerry Byrd a steel guitar version
Minute Men (1963, MGM 13132)
Jerry Byrd (1966, LP Potpourri)
Linda With The Lonely Eyes
Belgian Sophie Pascal
covered it in French, "Les larmes aux yeux"; on the B-side also a Loudermilk song,
"La petite grive", cover of The Little Grave.
First lines: I guess I've got a good excuse for being special blue,
'cause it's not every day you lose someone as special as you etc.
probably unreleased
You're Cool
Rita Faye Wilson was a daughter of hillbilly artist Smiley Wilson.
In 1953, age 9, she had a hit with the popular "I Fell Out Of A Christmas Tree". In the sixties Rita recorded a few pop songs.
On "You're Cool" she sounds soulful and black. She also played autoharp on
Patsy Cline's and Grandpa Jones' recordings. Rita married songwriter Earl Sinks and they made pretty good money in music business.
Song about popular TV series Dr Ben Casey, see
lyrics The JDL single was a top 10 hit in Finland (#7, December 1962);
that makes it as far as I know the only place in the world where JDL as a singer himself had a national top 10 hit single!
The record also charted locally in Brisbane, Australia (10 weeks top 40, highest position 10, 1 week top 10).
John D Loudermilk (1962, RCA 8054, #83, Billboard)
Erkki Pohjanheimo (1963, Fontana 271557, "Kutsukaa Tri Casey" in Finland)
Gene Rockwell & the Falcons (1966, LP The Many Faces Of, South African rocker)
Ismo's (1999, cd Kiitos ja hyvää yötä, another "Kutsukaa Tri Casey")
←Cashbox add for Sue Thompson's 'fifth smash in a row, climbing on all charts'. Sue's record peaked #17 pop (Billboard).
Lyrics
→An Austrian release by Hanne Wieder, daughter of a general and singer, actress, comedienne.
Translated as James halt die Leiter grade, at the end of the song she falls down the ladder...
Sue Thompson (1962, Hickory 1183)
Carol Deene (1962, HMV POP 1086 UK,
Deene later sang "I'll tell you how I know I'm ready- I'd have gone if James held that ladder steady" in her song Growin' Up)
A. Starr (1962, Curio 10, US budget cover)
Kay Barry (1962, Embassy 534, UK budget cover)
Ria Valk (1962, Fontana, Dutch version)
Gitte Mona (=Greetje Mona) (1962, Palette 40147, version in German)
Helle Wilke (1962, Triola TD-162, German version: "James halt die Leiter gerade")
Helle Wilke (1962, Triola TD-167, Danish version: "James er du klar med stigen?")
Hanne Wieder (1962, Jupiter 178, German version "James, halt die Leiter grade")
Riverina Jazz Band (1963, LP Country Barn Dance Vol. 2, Australia)
Jose Luis (1963, Gamma 444, Mexican cover "Es Ella")
Carolyn Young (1960s?, Aussie girl pop)
Chantal May (1964, EP Joker RN 45-002, French version)
Anina (1968, CBS 6225, Spanish (Mexico) version: "Juan, Juan (Tengo mucho miedo)")
Ellis (1984, TipTop 101, another Dutch translated cover)
Susan Maughan (1997, cd Bobby's Girl, prev. unreleased 1960s by UK lady)
Barbara Lee (2007, cd Even Now, prob. rereleased ±1980 recording by country singer)
Bad news travels like wildfire
Good news travels slow
They all call me, "Ole Wildfire,"
'Cause everybody knows that I'm bad news
Ev'rywhere I go
Always gettin' in trouble
And leaving little girls who hate to see me go
I've picked peaches down in Georgia
Lumberjacked up in Maine
I've been hired and jailed
In every state you can name
'Cause I'm bad news...
From north to south, from east to west
The story is the same
From one state to the other
I have to change my name
'Cause I'm bad news...
Now, they tried to hang me down in Oakland
And they did in San-Frisco
But I wouldn't choke and I broke their rope
And they had to let me go
'Cause I'm bad news...
In 1975, Charlie Daniels had a hit with the song Long Haired Country Boy; a song that had C. Daniels as composer credits.
The music however, is nothing but an exact copy of Loudermilk's Bad News!
Acuff Rose charged Charlie Daniels copyright infringement in 1982. Daniels' weak defense was that both songs are similar
to others, like Proud Mary, Folsom Prison Blues, Honky Tonkin'.
I don't know what the judge's verdict eventually was, but listen to Charles Daniels' clip below and
how close it is to Bad News, and far off from Proud Mary or Honky Tonkin'.
John D Loudermilk (1963, RCA 8154)
Johnny Cash (1964, Columbia 43058)
Lonnie Donegan (1964, Hickory 1274)
Eddy Arnold (1965, LP Easy Way)
Bob Dylan (sang it 1965 in the Savoy Hotel, London, for Pennebaker's film Don't Look Back, but not released so far)
Al Turnage & the Turnpikes (1965, Jox 024, rough Texas garage rock)
Robert DeCormier Folk Singers (1967, LP Walking In The Sunshine)
The Fastest Group Alive (1967, Valiant V-759)
Roosevelt Grier (1969, AGP 107, soul 45 by football-actor-singer)
Clarence Carter (1969, Atlantic 8238)
Johnny Doe (1969, LP Sings More Big Country Hits Made Famous by Johnny Cash)
Pat Boone (1969, LP Departure)
Johnny Jenkins (1970, LP Ton-Ton Macoute!)
Johnny Winter (1970, Buddah 168)
Rock City Band (1971, Hickory 1617)
Tommy Tygart (45 rpm Voice of Country 131)
Stoneground (1971, LP Stoneground, 'super'group of some hippie left-overs, ex Starship, ex Beau Brummels)
Del Reeves (1973, LP Trucker's Paradise)
Isaac Guillory (1973, LP Isaac Guillory)
George Hamilton IV (1975, RCA 50063, LP Trendsetter)
'King' Jerry Lawler (1975, Barbarian Records 0101, 45 by professional Memphis wrestler)
Jim Ringer (1977, LP Tramps and Hawkers)
Doug Kershaw (1977, LP Flip, Flop & Fly)
Jerry Jeff Walker (1978, LP Jerry Jeff)
Bad News Reunion (1978, LP Live im Logo, German band)
Delta-Cross Band (1979, LP Rave On, a Danish album with good album cover art)
Jimmy Hall (1980, LP Touch You, fat 'n greasy funk)
Red Allen (1981, LP Red Allen and Friends)
Boxcar Willie (1982, Main Street 73001)
Jiri Brabeg & George Hamilton IV (1983, LP George Hamilton IV & Jiri Brabeg & Country Beat)
B J Thomas (1986, LP Night Life)
Falcon Country Band (1987, LP Falcon Country Band, NL)
Dr Hector & Groove Injectors (1991, cd Emergency)
Trailer Park Casanovas (1999, cd End Of An Era, rockabilly in a hurry)
Jussi Syren & Groundbreakers (1999, cd Factories and Fields)
Peter Dawson (2001, cd Do You Don't Or Do You Do)
Alejandro Escovedo & Jon Langford with Dave Alvin (2003, cd Executioners Last Songs vol 2)
Bob Wootton (2005, cd Bobby Wootton The Man Behind The Man In Black, excellent version by ex Johnny Cash bass player)
V.A.A.G. (2006, cd Hè hè...! by Dutch acoustic band)
Blink Away
A song with hit potential, that failed to make it
lyrics
Norro & The Nor-Folks (1963, Monument 813)
Carmel Quinn (1965, LP Wonderful World of my Dreams)
A great song! An inspiration to the song has been what his father (also a John D, died in 1960) told
him about thumbing to get work during the Depression.
Interstate 40 in fact is the road to travel from Durham, JDL's birthplace, to Nashville Tennessee.
Sue Thompson (1963, Hickory 1204, Billboard bubbling under)
Cut Me Down (From Your Whipping Post)
Kris Jensen once more tortured (see lyrics),
but failed to follow up his hit Torture,
Peter 'Kris' Jensen, remained a one-hit wonder. In the 1980s he worked as a tune-screener for a publisher in California and
later is reported being traveling around as a promotor of Buddhist religion in America.
Kris Jensen (1963, Hickory 1203)
The Guitar Player (a.k.a: Her And Him)
Lyrics
, song with a Ben E King/ Spanish Harlem sort of arrangement
John D Loudermilk (1963, RCA 8154)
Jimmy Justice (1963, PYE 7N15528 UK)
Conflicting Interests
Henley lead singer of The Newbeats,
later famous as composer of Bette Midler hit Wind Beneath My Wings
Larry Henley (1963, Hickory 1216)
Somebody Catch Me Kissin' Mary
Mark Dinning (1963, MGM 13150)
I Love You, Darling
(A 1000 Times)
Mark Dinning (1963, MGM 63-XY-427 unissued track)
Sparkling Burgundy
Catchy instrumental (not Julius Walkins' same titled song)
Brown / Gibson / Loudermilk
Sometimes the name of Albert Stanton, a fictitious songwriter which was abused
for claiming copyright of traditional folk songs, was added as 'composer'
An acetate
Dubious if this can be called a Loudermilk song.
There's been a discussion who really composed the song.
In the end it was officially registered as a Brown / Gibson / Loudermilk song in 1963.
In fact it probably was an older folk standard. First recording in 1957 by Bob Gibson
Josh Brown, son of Lester Brown, was very kind to mail me and tell me the story as his dad used to tell it:
My dad owned a nightclub in Chicago called "The Gate of Horn" with Albert Grossman.
Bob Gibson was a regular act at the club, at the time and he and my father became friends.
Dad took on managerial duties (of some form) with Bob's career for a short while and they ended up in New York City
for some business (or just a good time). One day while hanging around Washington Square Park,
they ran into an acquaintance who was strumming on a banjo and mumbling some lyrics
(either "Abilene, Abilene, prettiest girl I've ever seen" or "Abilene, Abilene, prettiest town I've ever seen").
My dad pulled Bob aside and told him to learn the chord progression, because he was going to write
the rest of the lyrics.
They ended up back in their hotel room and with the help of some cheap liquor,
my father wrote the lyrics to Abilene in the bathtub. He claims it took him ten minutes.
Bob Gibson made the first recording of the song and it did nothing.
Some years later, my father got a call from a friend exclaiming that Abilene was on the Billboard charts.
He called his publisher, Acuff-Rose, to verify and they replied that "Yes! it was on the charts at #13
and that they expected it to go to #1 which I believe it did.
My father had later found out that Mr. Loudermilks name was added as a writer, even though he had NOT had anything
to do with writing the song. My dad figure he played a more important role (He found the song and made it a HIT!)
and decided not to protest the writing split.
Anyway, that's the story according to Lester L. Brown.
I've heard it hundreds of times in my life (though it's changed slightly due to older age).
I was very pleased and honoured that John D also let me know of how he came to know the song.
I went with George Hamilton IV to a radio station in Franklin Tennessee,
and the disc jockey who was to interview him there played us this song
- Bob Gibson's version. George didn't show any interest in it, so I said
to him "If you don't cut this, I will". Well, he did decide to cut it,
of course, and though Chet Atkins was RCA's producer of record for the
session, I basically arranged and produced it - which was not unusual then.
See, Chet would often let artists and musicians have their heads
anyhow, and the session would be sort of a collaboration. It was his
way of drawing out the best of the music for the project and it was a
great part of his technique in sort of catalyzing what came to be known
as "the Nashville sound". But on this one, I remember him out in the
studio playing on the session (that's his riff on the intro) as I worked
the board from the control room.
Shortly after we finished with it,
maybe the very next day, I got a call from (my publisher) Wesley Rose to
come over to Acuff-Rose. When I got there he was in his office with Bob
Gibson and Lester Brown, Bob's manager, and I was informed that they had
made a deal whereby Wes would publish the song and my name would be
added as writer. I accepted their terms (though I shared my royalties
with George IV), but over the years I've realized that the fairest way I
could have been acknowledged and repaid for my efforts in helping the
song become the hit it was would have been for Wes to recognize that I
actually did the work of the publisher there (finding the song and
placing it with the right artist, for example). My royalties really
should have come from the publisher's share. I expect that the whole
deal was designed by Wesley, but by the time I arrived the three of them
had already agreed that Wesley would get all the publishing (half the
royalties) and that we three would divide the other half (the writer's
share). I agreed too, we all shook hands, and that was the end of it.
The song has been recorded many times, using different song titles on Folk albums around 1960.
After the Bob Gibson recording, it was Erik Darling (ex-member of The Tarriers and The Weavers)
who did a version in 1958 on his solo album. He called the song Aboline, and had
some of his own lyrics added. Erik was later part of The Rooftop Singers.
Sources say the Lonesome Travelers, group of Bob Johnson, Norman Blake and
Walter Forbes recorded for RCA in 1959, but no details are found on the RCA session sheets.
Forbes later recorded Abilene for a solo album.
Other folk versions in the early sixties include Barry (McGuire) & Barry (Kane) -they called it Lose The Blues In Abilene-,
Brothers Four, Charlotte Daniels & Pat Webb, Homesteaders, Johnny Mann Singers, Pernell Roberts,
Walter Forbes solo (called it Abilene Blues), etc.
before George Hamilton IV turned it in 1963 into a C&W hit.
Lyrics
Abilene, Abilene
Prettiest town I've ever seen
Women there don't treat you mean
in Abilene, my Abilene
I sit alone most ev'ry night
Watch those trains pull out of sight
Don't I wish they were carrying me
Back to Abilene, my Abilene
Crowded city, there ain't nothing free
Nothing in this town for me
Wish to the Lord that I could be
in Abilene, sweet Abilene
Ben Steneker covered it in Dutch as Ameland: "Ameland, wat is er met je aan de hand, boren ze maar in je zand.
Wie er nu komt, die kent het niet, allemaal mannen die je ziet",
singing about the oil and gas found on this North Sea island. On the picture sleeve
a map figures but the oil towers are drawn on the wrong island (Terschelling!).
Bob Gibson (1957±, LP I Come Fore To Sing)
Erik Darling (1958, LP Erik Darling Sings & Plays)
Brothers Four (1961, LP Roamin' With The Brothers)
Roy Berkeley (1961, Coral 62256, spelled it "Aboline")
Barry & Barry (1961, first released on the 1965 LP Star Folk Vol 3)
Charlotte Daniels & Patt Webb (1961/62, LP Charlotte Daniels and Patt Webb)
Johnny Mann Singers (1962, LP Golden Folk Song Hits Vol 3)
The Homesteaders (1962± LP Railroad Bill, group with young Judy Collins)
The Sapphires (1962, HMV 4459, group from Sydney, song was retitled "Aberdeen" and performed in a skiffle way)
Pernell Roberts (=Adam Cartwright in tv-show Bonanza, actor and folk singer) (1962, LP Bonanza Ponderosa Party Time)
Walter Forbes (1963, LP Folk Song Festival)
The Folk City Citizens (LP Hootenanny & Folk, budget album recorded live at Folk City)
Bobby Darin (1963, LP Golden Folk Hits)
Bobby Bare (1963, LP 500 Miles Away From Home)
Rod McKuen & Horizon Singers (1963, LP There's A Hoot Tonight)
The Highwaymen (1963, LP One More Time)
Bud & Travis (1963, LP Perspective on Bud & Travis)
George Hamilton IV (1963, RCA 8181, C&W #1)
Jack White (1963, Country & Western Hits 213, Nashville budget label cover)
Dusty King & His Country Cats (1963, LP Top 16 C&W Hits, Canada, budget cover)
The Four Preps (1963, LP Songs For A Campus Party)
Don Mercedes (1963, Philips JF327561, NL)
Fortunes (1963, Triola TD 213, in Denmark covered as "Rosmarin")
Rory and Alex McEwen (1963, EP Hootenannie, Waverley ELP 127, popular Scottish folk duo)
Thomas Fraser (Scottish fisherman, tape recording issued on cd You And My Old Guitar)
Les Missiles (1963, EP Ducretet Thomson 460V574, French version: "Marilyn" (not Monroe!))
Les Missiles (1964, Ducretet Thomson 500V600, rare Italian version: "Come Fai"))
Buck Owens (1964, LP I Don't Care)
Tom Tedesco (1964, LP The Electric 12 String Guitar)
Bill Anderson (1964, LP Sings)
Bobby Goldsboro (1964, LP I Can't Stop Loving You)
Roy Drusky (1964, LP Songs Of The Cities)
Walter Brennan (1964, LP Talkin' From The Heart, movie actor's interpretation)
Maxine Sellers (1964, LP Folk Songs)
Martin Denny (1964, LP A Taste Of Hits, instrumental, lazy piano)
All Night Singers (1964, LP The All Night Singers)
Saturday's Singers (1964, LP Sing For A Living)
Ben Steneker (1964, CNR 9672, Dutch version "Ameland")
Living Guitars (1964, LP Folk-Dixie Jamboree)
Waylon Jennings (1964, At JD's, not really live but 'rough' recorded)
Bee Gees (1964, in Johnny O Keefe's tv-show)
Talking John Berry (1964, EP The Talking Folksinger)
Pete Drake & his Talking Guitar (1965, Starday 751)
The Bingham Trio (LP The Bingham Trio)
The Faroe Boys (1965, Icelandic 45 rpm, as "Abelene")
David Wiffen (1965, LP Live at the Bunkhouse, Canadian folk)
Billy Liebert (LP Today's Sounds in Pop-Country Hits)
The Oceans (1966, Pla-Me 804B-1090, 45 rpm by Ohio garage band)
The Other Singers (1966, LP The Other Singers Sing Other Songs for Other People)
Stu Davis (1966, LP The Stu Davis Show, popular Canadian cowboy singer)
Rusty & His Rangers (1966, Decca/Ace 200.750/1)
Vic Dana (1966, LP Town & Country)
Bobby Bond (1966, LP Down That Lonesome Road, on budget label Somerset,
track is also used as by Earl Cupid on other budget compilations)
Guy Mitchell (1967, LP My Traveling Shoes, entitled 'My Abilene' and lists York as composer)
Tommy Garrett (1967, LP Six Flags over Texas, instrumental)
Frugal Sound (1967, RCA 1595, UK easy listening pop)
Flamingo Kvintetten (1968±, Platina 156, Swedish version "Fröken Rar")
Glenn Yarbrough (1968, LP Yarbrough Country)
Rusty York (1968, LP Sings Like Crazy)
Jimmy Dean (1968, LP Dean's List)
Dave & Susanne (1968/69, LP Walking In The Sunshine)
Johnny Farago (1968, LP T'aurais pas du mourir si jeune, French lyrics by a Canadian Elvis clone)
Slim Berry (LP Abilene & Other Hits)
Glenn Barber (1969, Hickory 1568)
John Pearse (1969, LP Hold Down A Chord, for a BBC TV guitar tuition series)
Tommy Lee (1969, LP Tommy Lee Sings The Country Greats)
The Terry Sisters (Carousel 1-02, 45 on Salt Lake City label)
Jack Jackson (LP The Singing Side, square dance music)
Hill Mellis & Co (1970, LP Hill Mellis & Co)
The London Philharmonic Orchestra (1970, LP Hits of 1970)
Johnny Doe (=Stan Farlow) (1970/71, LP Sings The Hits Of Johnny Cash)
John D Loudermilk (1971, LP Elloree)
Greenhorns (1971, LP Greenhorns '71, Czech version "Abiline")
Back to part 1, 1956-1960 The Colonial, Columbia, Universal-Cedarwood years
This was part 2, 1960-1963 RCA, Hickory, Nashville, teen, hillbilly and novelty songs
To part 3, 1963-1969 RCA, Hickory, Nashville, bizarre and open minded
To part 4, 1970 & later MIM, Europe, years of retirement
To part 5, Loudermilk singing traditionals and covering other songwriters
To part 6, unknown songs/covers - info wanted!
To Loudermilk bio & link page
←The song was covered by Brazilian Ronnie Cord (Ronald Cordovil), a singer from Sao Paulo who had a smash hit
with Brian Hyland's Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie.... After having recorded pop covers in English,
he later joined the Jovem Guarda movement and scored hit records in Portugese.
Everly's tear jerker reached #8 on Billboard.
Billboard add for Luman's 45 release
←Add in music magazine Billboard
Jimmy Bell, (← in the studio with Boudleaux Bryant and Floyd Cramer).
Jimmy was in fact Jimmy Sweeney, a black Nashville R&B singer/ songwriter who sang in the 1940s with the Five Bars
and later worked for Hickory Records. As 'Jimmy Bell' he had a big hit in Canada, doing
the original "She Wears My Ring", a song later to be covered by Elvis. It was the Boudleaux/Bryant adaptation
of the old Italian "La Golondrina". "Lunch in a Bucket" was intended to be the follow-up.
← Dorsey Burnette's release in a 1962 Dutch picture sleeve release.
←EP by popular Swedish guitar band The Spotnicks
←the original 45 rpm on ACME, a small but interesting Kentucky label
A French-Canadian cover by by Michèle Richard, singer and tv-star.
The Chinese-Kantonese cover by Sakura Teng & the Quests, a popular 1960s group from Singapore. It was Sakura's
debut record.
Indo-rocking girl Greetje Mona, born Greetje Bozelie in Tiel, Netherlands, covered the song for the Dutch and Belgian market
on the Palette label. A good version, with an exotic touch of steel guitar. She also recorded as Gitte Mona a German version.
A later 1972 cover by Bob Smit (another indo singer) & Duke City Sextet, 'n Trieste Film, bears the mark of a Pierre 'Smurfing Father Abraham' Kartner production.
Teen hit all over the world.
Three European sixties covers: Sweden (as "Charlie"), France (as "Gontran") and Germany (just "Norman").
←First release was in the fall of 1962 by Don Cherry on the Verve label, a subsidiary label of MGM. The 45 did not sell.
←Second American release is the cover by Johnny Tillotson on his 1964 album, recorded as a country song.
→Sheet music for the early Australian and UK-release in 1965 by Australian Patsy Ann Noble. She came from a
musical family: father a well known comedian/ singer, mother a choreographer. Patsy delivered a tasty version, with soulful organ and chorus.
And it was this recording that finally appealed to American taste and made it big on the charts.
Afterwards even worse versions were cut by all sorts of crooners.
←Covered in French by beat group Les Lionceaux. They tried to give Google Eye in French the meaning of a dance,
"c'est le vrai Google Eye, un serie de pas compliqués" so a girl asks
help with the dance but the singer refuses... Funny song, driven beat, more interesting than what the Nashville Teens made of the song.
My aunt Olive "discovered" me when I lived in Florida in late 1961.
My favorite singer was Brenda Lee at the time and I would listen and sing every song that she recorded.
My aunt heard me singing. She was a friend of the President of DOT Record Co., Randy Wood, contacted him and said,
"you must listen to my niece Cynthia".
Bob Forshee, co-writer of this song, was a University of Missouri graduate and former school teacher,
who went into music business in the early 1960s. Forshee and Loudermilk wrote at least 4 songs together,
of which 2 were recorded and released.
←The 1980 single release by French punk cult artist
Belgian 
←Cashbox add for Sue Thompson's 'fifth smash in a row, climbing on all charts'. Sue's record peaked #17 pop (Billboard).
→An Austrian release by Hanne Wieder, daughter of a general and singer, actress, comedienne.
Translated as James halt die Leiter grade, at the end of the song she falls down the ladder...
Kris Jensen once more tortured (see 
An acetate
Ben Steneker covered it in Dutch as Ameland: "Ameland, wat is er met je aan de hand, boren ze maar in je zand.
Wie er nu komt, die kent het niet, allemaal mannen die je ziet",
singing about the oil and gas found on this North Sea island. On the picture sleeve
a map figures but the oil towers are drawn on the wrong island (Terschelling!).