John D. Loudermilk

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Visit my complete (uhmm.., as far as I could, but you could help me to make it more complete!) discography with "all" of the songs Loudermilk has written and "all" the covers, in 4 parts.

part 1: 1956-1960 The Colonial, Columbia, Universal-Cedarwood years

part 2: 1960-1963 RCA, Hickory, Nashville, teen, hillbilly and novelty

part 3: 1963-1969 RCA, Hickory, Nashville, bizarre and open minded, country and singer-songwriter songs

part 4: 1970 & later MIM, England, back in the US, years of retirement

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RECENT NEWS

Recently added ...

I have added a Discography of the JDL-releases, 45, LP and CD.

Last month many interesting covers came in. Thanks to all who contributed!
Listen to four of 'm:
Big Pete Deuchar - Google Eye, UK jazz-banjo man with an interesting April 1963 cover of the song. The record was also released in the US on the PeeBee label 1001, here artist was spelled Big Pete Duker.
The Jordanaires - Break My Mind, the Nashville super-backup guys, from their 1969 LP Monster Makers
Anita Kerr Singers, the Nashville super backup chorus, from their 1963 LP Tender Words.
The Sound - Poios einai autos pou agapas?, that's how Indian Reservation sounds in Greek; from a 2007 cd, but the recording may well be early 1970s.

A great new video on YouTube ...

Recently added to YouTube a great video of John D. performing in "Nashville Now" (1984).

JDL plays "Tobacco Road" and is being interviewed by Jimmy Buffett, and plays 'a new autobiographical song that has been written this morning': "things are getting brighter, and now this writer, is back to writing songs"!

Recent added tracks...

With the help of music fans all over the world, we keep on finding new JDL-covers.
Recently added interesting covers:
The Staccatos - Everybody Knows, South African beat group, from a 1966 LP and 1967 single release
Wander Lee - Norman, a 1962 single, by Wanderly Regina, on the Brazilean Musidisc label. Great back up by Ed Lincoln's combo.
Delta-Cross Band - Bad News, Denmark bluesy boogie version, 1979.

Richard Hawley ...

In Magnet Magazine interview with Sheffield musician Richard Hawley. A special note on JDL:

"John D. Loudermilk is one of my favorite songwriters of all time. He's a great American songwriter who has written through most of the second half of the 20th century. He wrote "Tobacco Road". Need I say more?"

Richard Hawley, a prominent singer songwriter, has played in Jarvis Cocker's Pulp, and has released 6 solo albums so far. With his unique, deep dark voice and the great songs, stories, ballads he writes, these albums are amongst the best releases of the last few years.

Interview about songwriting

Leigh Donaldson published an excellent interview with John D on americansongwriter.com, "Veteran Takes New Songwriters Under His Wing".
John talks about songwriting, the importance of lyrics, his career, some of his greatest somgs, and the important work for songwriters orginizations.

A must to read! See americansongwriter.com

Happy birthday !

March 31 2009: John D. reaches his 75th birthday.
Happy birthday to John and the family !

Loudermilk postage stamp issue


Since US Mail issued an Elvis stamp in 1993, many singers and artists have been featured on stamps.
Now a special John D. Loudermilk has been issued, November 2008 by TNT Post, the Royal Dutch Postal Union. In a special, limited edition of sheets of 10 of 44 cents for domestic mail.

New lyric to Abilene

Jim Jenkins, columnist for newsobserver.com, reports about George Hamilton IV singing new lyrics to the JDL-song Abilene:
Gasoline, gasoline, highest prices I've ever seen
What on Earth is going on with gasoline?
Gasoline, gasoline, oh, gasoline ...
Filled my tank just the other night
watched that meter just spin out of sight
Don't I wish they would lower the price of gasoline, oh, gasoline....
Read the complete story in Jim Jenkins' column.

I added two new video clips, of John D. performing songs he never recorded himself for one of his albums: Windy and Warm and Break My Mind. Performed on June 23, 2007, Ford Theatre in Nashville TN, in the Poets and Prophets Series organised by the Country Hall Of Fame And Museum.

Click images to see the video-clip.

John D. being interviewed by William Friday in the recent UNC TV Show "North Carolina People". In this section, John tells about the origin of "A Rose and a Baby Ruth".

Click image to see the video-clip. (sorry, I've got the sound volume recorded too low on this uploaded clip)

Sue Thompson interview

In the recent radio show of Ronnie Allen, Sue Thompson. In an 1 hour show, Sue talks about her recordings and of course her Loudermilk penned hits like Sad Movies, Norman, James and Paper Tiger.
Ronnie's interview was recorded especially for the website Jersey Girls Sing!, a site created by Denise Ferri and Bernadette Carroll to celebrate the fabulous music of the 50s and the 60s.
To hear the show, click.

Pic left: Sue in the early 1950s, at the start of her career.

JDL visited Chapel Hill, Feb 27+28th - performing with George Hamilton IV
On Tuesday, February 27th, John and George Hamilton IV were guests of a UNC class on the "History of Country Music" They presented some of their memorabilia such as notes, letters etc. to the University.
February 28th, John D, his son, Mike and George IV and his son, George V performed in concert at the University Baptist Church in Chapel Hill.

Picture by Mike Spicer.

Picture: John D. and George Hamilton IV performing last year in Chapel Hill, NC, June 17th 2006. To commemorate that they recorded their first hit, A Rose and a Baby Ruth 50 years ago.

Picture by Mike Spicer. Higher resolution format to be found at Flickr.

Canetoad cd release of Loudermilk songs!
Now released: cd Volume 1 with covers of Loudermilk songs.
Australian Canetoad Records has released a cd containing 31 tracks of covers of JDL-songs. This first cd focuses on rockabilly, country and folk artists. A volume 2 of probably will follow later this year.
The cd contains all original fifties and sixties recordings by artists like The Browns, The Chordettes, Bob Luman, Roy Acuff Jr., The Everly Brothers, Norro Wilson, Jimmy Newman, Skeeter Davis, Arnie Derksen and many more. Some obscure songs and hard to find vinyl now for the first time on cd.
Great cd with 28 page full color booklet, including a recent interview with John D. about the songs and artists on this cd!
The cd can be ordered from Australia for 29 OZ$ (equals circa 20 US$, 15 Euro or 10 GBP) at rockin rooster or NL online NL Store, etc etc.

Track listing:

A LITTLE BIO

As published by JDL, telling about the start of his career, source the Acuff Rose Song Folio Book, publ. ca. 1964

Back in 1934 on the last day of March... I was born.
It all happened in Durham - a small half university, half industrial town in central North Carolina. I grew up around cigarette factories and hosiery mills and played roller-bat in the street like everyone else. Dad was 50 and mother was 40 when I was born so my two sisters were already grown and away from home by the time I came along.
Dad could neither read nor write so I used to go with him to the grocery store on Saturday afternoon and sign his pay check for him... (I always did believe that's why he gave me the same name as his). He was a carpenter all his life and never changed occupations. Mother was a housewife and a sweet and wonderful mother but, bless her heart, she liked to move a lot. She seemed happiest when the big moving van was backing up to the porch and the pasteboard boxes started to move. From the time I can first remember to the time I left home we had moved 19 times and never got out of the same school district.
Sending off for a Lone Ranger Mask, a scooter made out of an old rusty roller skate, Batman comic books, Mother teaching me to play her old guitar, and my own private tree house are all fond memories of my childhood.

My early religious influences were mostly along the gospel or holiness line. Singing to the accompaniment of "Stringed Instruments", Horns, Tamborines, Hand Clapping and the Big Bass Drum was my first conception of music... and a lasting one. Shouting at prayer meetings and giving one's own personal testimony was The Rule Of The Day.
Aside from the religious music, I also liked folk music (back then they called it "Hillbilly Music"). Sunday school came awfully early after staying up all night listening to The Grand Ole Opry on the radio.

My folks had always wanted me to become a preacher, but when I became a teenager instead, they became aware that I had become aware of a certain thing called social pressure. So I turned in my Christmas bell and uniform and started singing and playing more "Pop" type stuff on the guitar... the guitar that mother and the Salvation Army had taught me how to play.
Yea, Ivory Joe Hunter, Fats Domino and Lloyd Price were what was happening.
I later got hung up on concert guitar and all through high school I was playing and singing a combination of Jimmy Reed, Eddy Arnold and Andres Segovia.

On graduation from high school I went to work at my hometown television station painting sets and doing commercial art work. I was also on the air an hour a day playing bass fiddle in the Studio Combo and doing an occasional tune with my guitar on camera. It was during this time that I discovered the works of Kahlil Gibran, the Far Eastern poet and philosopher, who inspired me to try my hand at writing.
One night after work I wrote a poem about A Rose And A Baby Ruth candy bar. It sounded pretty good, so I put a tune to it with my guitar. I sang it on the show the next day and the phones started ringing... people wanting to hear it again.
George Hamilton IV (who was a student close by at UNC) was one of the ones who called. Before I knew it, he had recorded the thing and bam!... overnight the record was a hit.
George was a star and I was a songwriter!!

I had always wanted to go to college so off I went -down to a little junior college in the eastern part of the state. It was here that I wrote "Sittin' In The Balcony" (which was later to become Eddie Cochrans first hit record.)
I began to get offers from publishers in New York and Nashville, so before long I went home to pack. I had a whole bunch of songs by then and a little bit of royalties left so I headed on out to NashviIle, Tennessee.

John's saturday night's band in the early 1950s: the Carolina Pinetoppers. Young John D in the center with fiddle.

"The popular orchestra is shown here during a rendition of one of their tricky hillbilly numbers". Other group members Burton Spicer, Eddie Hill, Donald Boswell and Philip Forest.

Picture from a local NC newspaper (picture courtesy Mike Spicer).

SONGS

John D. only had 2 hit songs in the US:
Sittin' in the Balcony as "Johnny Dee", peaked at #38 Billboard in 1957,
Language of Love #32 in 1961.
Internationally, Loudermilk had his highest chart position in Finland, where Callin' Dr. Casey was a #7 hit. John D. was very successful in Canada (two #10 records and two #11 hits!), in England (one #13) and he reached top 30 positions in Germany and South Africa (with Blue Train) and Queensland, Australia (Midnight Bus).

His own chart results seem nothing though, compared to what other artists made out of his compositions, covering the songs.

Million sellers like Norman, Indian Reservation, "A Rose & a Baby Ruth", Sad Movies, Waterloo, This Little Bird, and evergreens like Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye, rock classics like Tobacco Road, country favourites like Break My Mind, the guitar standard Windy and Warm and recently Norah Jones' Turn Me On

Other successes include Paper Tiger, Torture, Sunglasses, Bad News, Google Eye, It's My Time, Big Daddy, Angela Jones, I Wanna Live, Talk Back Tremblin' Lips, Road Hog (big seller in the Latin world) and The Great Snow Man (hit in Sweden).

DISCOGRAPHY

Discography based on PrageFrank's overview, with a few additions.
Dates indicate the month/ year of release.

US 45 rpm SINGLES

1956-57 as by Johnny Dee, for Colonial Records out of Chapel Hill, NC
Colonial 45-CR-430 - Sittin' in The Balcony / A-Plus In Love, Jan 1957, as Johnny Dee feat, Joe Tanner on Guitar
Colonial 45-CR-433 - Teenage Queen / It's Gotta Be You, Apr 1957, as Johnny Dee with the Bluenotes
Colonial 45-CR-435 - 1000 Concrete Blocks / In My Simple Way, Jul 1957, as Johnny Dee and Chorus
Colonial 45-CR-436 - Asiatic Flu / That's All I've Got, Oct 1957, as Ebe Sneezer and His Epidemics
Colonial 45-CR-722 - Somebody Sweet / They Were Right, Jan 1958

1958-1959 for Columbia, recorded in Nashville, as John D. Loudermilk
Columbia 4-41165 - Susie's House / Yearbook, Apr 1958
Columbia 4-41209 - Yo-Yo / Lover's Lane, Jul. 1958
Columbia 4-41247 - This Cold War With You / Goin' Away To School, Sep 1958
Columbia 4-41507 - The Happy Wanderer (Val-de Ri-Val-de Ra) / Red Headed Stranger, Oct 1959
Columbia 4-41562 - Tobacco Road / Midnight Bus, Jan 1960

1961-68 for RCA-Victor, recorded in Nashville
RCA 47-7938 - Language Of Love / Darling Jane, Oct 1961
RCA 47-7993 - Thou Shalt Not Steal / Mister Jones, Feb 1962
RCA 47-8054 - Calling Doctor Casey / Oh, How Sad, Jun 1962
RCA 47-8101 - Road Hog / Angela Jones, Oct 1962
RCA 47-8154 - Bad News / The Guitar Player (Her and Him), Mar 1963
RCA 47-8308 - Blue Train (Of The Heartbreak Line) / Rhythm And Blues, Feb 1964
RCA 47-8389 - Th' Wife / Nothing To Gain, Jul 1964
RCA 47-8579 - That Ain't All / Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye, May 1965
RCA 47-8826 - Silver Cloud Talkin' Blues / Run On Home, Baby Brother, Apr 1966
RCA 47-8973 - You're The Guilty One / I Hear It Now, Oct 1966
RCA 47-9189 - It's My Time / Bahama Mama, May 1967
RCA 47-9592 - The Odd Folks Of Okracoke / Sidewalks, Aug 1968
RCA 74-0121 - Brown Girl / The Jones', Feb 1969

1971 on Warner Brothers
WB 7489 - Lord Have Mercy / When I Was Nine, May 1971

1978 on Music Is Medicine
MIM 002 - Every Day I Learn A Little More About Love / What Would It Take, 1979

Many of the US-releases are identically released in Canada, Britain, Australia, Europe, using other release label or number.
Below I only mention a few other, not corrresponding international releases, where other songs were coupled on 45.
RCA 41.502 - Language of Love - The Great Snowman (South Africa, 1962)
RCA 41.606 - Blue Train / Jimmie's Song (South Africa, 1963, also Philipines on a 78 rpm)
RCA 41.657 - Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye (South Africa, 1963, original version with strings)
RCA 47-8154 - The Great Snowman / Jimmy's Song (New Zealand)
RCA 47-8530 - Google Eye / The Rocks of Reno (Germany)
RCA 47-9550 - Blue Train / Mr Jones (Germany, 1963)
RCA 751020 - Silver Cloud Talkin' Blues / To Hell With Love (Canada)

Albums (vinyl LP)

In red font the essential albums (US releases with new material),

others (sampler, compilation) in blue font

Side 1:

Side 2:

Language Of Love

Oct 1961
RCA Victor LPM/LSP-2434

Darling Jane
Song Of The Lonely Teen
Language Of Love
The Rocks Of Reno
You Reap Just What You Sow
Two Strangers In Love

Mister Jones
Jimmie's Song
Blue Train (Of The Heartbreak Line)
What Would You Take For Me?
Mary's No Longer Mine
The Great Snowman

12 Sides Of John D. Loudermilk

Sep 1962
RCA Victor LPM/LSP-2539

* new recording, different from the Columbia-45 version

All Of This For Sally
Angela Jones
Big Daddy
The Bully Of The Beach
He's Just A Scientist (That's All)
Rhythm And Bluesy

Road Hog
The Little Bird
Tobacco Road *
Everybody Knows
Google Eye
Oh How Sad

Blue Train

Early/ mid 1963
RCA Victor 31,766 (South Africa release only)

Blue Train (Of The Heartbreak Line)
Guitar Player (Her and Him)
Road Hog
Mister Jones
Big Daddy
Mary's No Longer Mine

Bad News
The Bully Of The Beach
Song of the Lonely Teen
Angela Jones
The Little Bird
Two Strangers in Love

Presenting John D. Loudermilk

Dec 1963
RCA Victor 31,806 (South Africa release only)

* with strings, different from the 1967 US-version

Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye *
Everybody Knows
Run On Home Baby Brother
La La Mop Away
You Reap What You Sow
Oh How Sad

Nothing To Gain
No Playing in the Snow Today
That Ain't All
The Wife
The Little Grave
Calling Dr. Casey

John D. Loudermilk Sings A Bizarre Collection Of The Most Unusual Songs

Dec 1966
RCA Victor LPM/LSP-2539

To Hell With Love
Mary's Little Boy Child
Ma Baker's Little Acre
No Playing In The Snow Today
Bad News
The Little Grave

Talkin' Silver Cloud Blues
I'm Looking For A World
The Lament Of The Cherokee Reservation Indian
Interstate 40
You're Lookin'
Where Have They Gone

Suburban Attitudes In Country Verse

May 1967
RCA Victor LPM/LSP-3807

Bahama Mama
What Is It
Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye
Bubble, Please Break
The Wind Knows The Truth
Joey Stays With Me

You're Up To Your Same Old Tricks Again
You're Taking My Bag
It's My Time
They're Tearing Away The Old Place
Do You
I Chose You

Country Love Songs Plain And Simply Sung

Aug 1968
RCA Victor LSP-4040

Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain
Am I That Easy To Forget
We Wasted Our Time
She Called Me Baby
Everyone But You
Here Comes My Baby

I Can't Stop Loving You
When Two Worlds Collide
Oh How Sad
Welcome To My World
Honey

The Open Mind Of John D. Loudermilk

Feb 1969
RCA Victor LSP-4097

More Than He'll Have To Give
Poor Little Pretty Girl
Nassau Town
Geraldine
Laura
Brown Girl

Goin' To Hell On A Sled
The Jones'
War Babies
Peace Of Heart
Sidewalks
To Ann

The Best Of John D. Loudermilk

1970
RCA Victor LSA-3159 (UK-release)

Blue Train
The Little Bird
Angela Jones
Big Daddy
The Lament Of The Cherokee Reservation Indian
The Great Snowman
Road Hog

The Language Of Love
Interstate 40
Mr. Jones
Two Strangers In Love
The Bully Of The Beach
No Playing In The Snow Today
Tobacco Road

Volume 1 - Elloree

May 1971
WB WS-1922

* new recordings, different from the RCA-versions

Ricky's Tune
When I Was Nine
Abilene
Ma Baker's Little Acre *
Google Eye *
Tobacco Road *

The Lament Of The Cherokee Reservation Indian *
The Wind Knows The Truth *
The Jones' *
Lord Have Mercy
The Habit
I Wanna Live

Encores

1975
RCA Victor LSA-3220 (UK)

More Than He'll Have To Give
Ma Baker's Little Acre
Everybody Knows
Google Eye
She Called Me Baby
Geraldine
Brown Girl

Talkin' Silver Cloud Blues
Nassau Town
Bad News
I'm Looking For A World
All Of This For Sally
The Jones'
Where Have They Gone

The Rockin' Styles Of John D. Loudermilk, Vol.1

1975
CCL-1111 (Dutch release)

Sittin' In The Balcony", It's Gotta Be You, Somebody Sweet, They Were Right, A-Plus In Love, In My Simple Way, That's All I've Got, Asiatic Flu, Thousand Conrete Blocks, Teenage Queen, Red Headed Stranger, This Cold War With You, Yo-Yo, Lover's Lane, Yearbook, Midnight Bus, Goin' Away To School, Happy Wanderer, Susie's House, Tobacco Road

The Rockin' Styles Of John D. Loudermilk, Vol.2

1975
CCL-1112 (Dutch release)

Jimmy's Song, Darling Jane, Rocks Of Reno, You Reap Just What You Sow, What Would You Take For Me, Mary's No Longer Mine, It's My Time, He's Just A Scientist, Rhythm And Blues, Th' Wife, Nothing To Gain, Guitar Player, Run On Home Baby Brother, Song Of The Lonely Teen, Thou Shalt Not Steal, Oh How Sad, What Is It, Callin' Dr Casey

Volume 2 - Just Passing Through

Feb 1979
Music Is Medicine MIM-9009

I'll Never Be The Same
Classical Country String Ensemble
Flying Fish
Please Jack
What Would It Take?
The Kitchen Song

Every Day I Learn A Little More About Love
Why Can't I Believe In You?
Hatteras Jack
Vision Of Goodbye
Genesis
This World Is Not My Home

That's All I've Got

±1996
Demand LP-215 (yellow vinyl, France, bootleg)

* spelling error in song title

That's All I've Got
I'ts * Gotta Be You
Asiatic Flu
Callin Dr. Casey
Yo-Yo
Lovers Lane
Midnight Bus
In My Simple Way

Susie's House
Sittin'In The Balcony
Somebody's * Sweet
A-Plus In Love
They * Shall Not Steal
Year Book
The Guitar Player
The Happy Wanderer

Compact Discs

Blue Train
Bear Family BCD 15421 (Germany), 1989

* previously unissued track

Blue Train (Of The Heartbreak Line), Mister Jones, Language Of Love, Jimmie's Song, Angela Jones, The Bully Of The Beach, Rhythm And Blues, What Would You Take For Me?, The Great Snowman, Everybody Knows, Google Eye, Darling Jane, Song Of The Lonely Teen, All Of This For Sally, Road Hog, He's Just A Scientist (That's All), The Rocks Of Reno, Big Daddy, Callin' Dr Casey, You Reap Just What You Sow, The Little Wind Up Doll *, Two Strangers In Love, Th' Wife, Bad News, Run On Home Baby Brother, Oh How Sad

It's My Time
Bear Family BCD 15422 (Germany), 1989

* previously unissued track

It's My Time, No Playing In The Snow Today, The Little Grave, I'm Looking For A World, What Is It?, Bubble Please Break, Ma Baker's Little Acre, Mary's No Longer Mine, To Hell With Love, Talkin' Silver Cloud Blues, Joey Stays With Me, The Lament Of The Cherokee Reservation Indian, The Jones', You're The Guilty One, Where Have They Gone, The Little Bird, Brown Girl, Givin' You All My Love *, I Chose You, Honey, That Ain't All, Interstate 40, Do You, Tobacco Road

Sittin' In The Balcony
Bear Family BCD 15875 (Germany), 1995

* previously unissued track

Sittin' In The Balcony, A-Plus In Love, It's Gotta Be You, Teenage Queen, 1000 Conrete Blocks, In My Simple Way, That's All I've Got, Asiatic Flu, Somebody Sweet, They Were Right, Yearbook, Susie's House, Yo-Yo, Lover's Lane, Goin' Away To School, This Cold War With You, Please Don't Play No Nine *, The Angel Of Flight 509 *, Midnight Bus, The Red Headed Stranger, Tobacco Road, The Happy Wanderer (Val-De-Ri, Val-De-Ra), March Of The Minute Men *

Language Of Love
Collectables COL-CD-6296, 2000

Tracks same as the 1961 LP plus bonus tracks: Thou Shalt Not Steal, Callin' Doctor Casey, Road Hog

The Open Mind of John D Loudermilk
Omni Recording Corporation Omni 105 (Australia), 2006

Tracks same as the 1979 LP plus bonus tracks: To Hell With Love, Ma Baker's Little Acre, No Playing In The Snow Today, Bad News, The Little Grave, Talkin' Silver Cloud Blues, I'm Looking For a World, The Lament Of The Cherokee Reservation Indian, Interstate 40, Where have They Gone, The Little Bird, Tobacco Road, Bubble Please Break, It's My Time, That Ain't All

Some statistics...

Most covered songs...

as far as I found covers, updated Dec 2007:
1. Tobacco Road (196 covers)
2. Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye (117)
3. Abilene (113)
4. Break My Mind (88)
5. Windy & Warm (79)
6. Sad Movies (62)
6. Talk Back Tremblin' Lips (62)
8. Indian Reservation (52)
9. Norman (38)
10. Bad News (34)
11. I Wanna Live (28)
12. The Great SnowMan (26)
12. This Little Bird (26)

Most covering artists...

1. Sue Thompson (26 covers, an idea to release a cd with those songs?!)
2. George Hamilton IV (23)
3. Bob Luman (13)
4. Chet Atkins (12)
4. Jana Louise (12)
6. The Browns (10)
7. Kris Jensen (7)
8. Everly Brothers (6)
8. Mark Dinning (6)
8. Carmel Quinn (6)
8. Kitty Wells (6)
8. Clarence Gatemouth Brown (6)
11. Jimmy C Newman (5)

Some links:

BMI database contains all the songs registered by BMI. Don't trust each song claimed to be John D Loudermilk's to be a real JDL song though, some songs of other Johnnie Dee's (there are at least two more singers by that name) are mixed up with JDL-products!
The Library of Congress on-line copyright database has been another great source to me for songs written by JDL
PrageFrank's JDL sessions discography.
The impressive and extensive Rockin' Country Rockabilly discography's, by Terry Gordon.
The fabulous discographies of rockin' and blues artists compiled by Pete Hoppula,
A fantastic discography project of record labels by Global Dog,
A great overview of many US soulful labels and artists,
The site of Arnold Rijpens, that gathers all the original versions of tophits and popmusic. Through his radio program on BRT-Belgium in the 1980s I got hooked on the original music of singer-songwriters like Loudermilk.
Great site of Lyn Nuttall: originals of Australian pop hits.

Similar pages on the net "Songographies", great songwriters and all their covers:
Gordon Lightfoot,
P.F. Sloan,
Mickey Newbury,
Bobby Charles,
Ray 'Kinks' Davies

.

Many thanks for giving additional informations and corrections: Bill Aldred, Damien Avelange, Tommy Bengtsson, John W Beveridge, Chris Bishop, Jens Bohn, Mark Bridgland, Kees Brinkerink, Josh Brown, Jim Callahan, David Caudell, Art Chartrand, Vic Chinn, Glenn Dean, John DeAngelis, Phil Dirt, Enrique Dufau, Hans Evers, Record Exchanger, Stuart Fraser, Rob Giesbertz, Marco Giunco, Henk Gorter, Rich Grunke, Bob Hayden, Dietrich Heitz, Paul Hennessey, Rainer Holzhauer, 'Butcher' Pete Hoppula, Richard Huet, Cathy Illman, Ruud de Jonker, Ben Joosten, Albert Keijser, Gene Kennedy, Klaus Kettner, Fedor Kiebert, Corey Kleinbauer, Kåre and Edvin Kristiansen, Alexander Kurochko, Andre Landgraf, Sven Libaek, Tertius Louw, Florent Lavoie, Bill Littleton, Sandy Mason, Hugh Moore, Ayrton Mugnaini, Cynthia 'Kangaroo Girl' Muse, Barry Nostradamus Sher, Julio Niño, Joe Novak, Zbigniew Nowara, Ulf Reissberg, Neil Packman, Fred Poet, Johannes Potgieter, Chris Quaedvlieg, Paul Robin, Peter Roberts, Åke Roos, Hans De Ruyck, Sandy Samples, Erwin Schapendonk, Gerd Scheffold, John Schelp, Siegfried Schneeweiß, Hartmut Schulla, Jan Sigurd, Henri Smeets, Joe Specht, Ed Steklasa, Helm Stone, Ad 'Big O' Swart, Luis Torres, Mike Turner, Henrik Uhlin, Paul Urbahns, Tapio Vaisanen, Jaroslav Vener, Jerry A. Veneskey, Jukka Voudinmäki, Wilfried Weiler, Klaas Vonk, Peter Vreeburg, Wolfgang Wittmann, Bob Wynne, Gustavo Zamora, Greg Zechman, Ben Zehnder
and special thanks for the big contributions of Nerissa Cassell, Philippe Edouard, René Ferri, Mike Spicer and Thieu van de Vorst.

And sure a lot of thanks for the kind help of John D, Susan C and Rick Loudermilk!

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