5. SONGS JOHN D LOUDERMILK COVERED

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This is part 5, Loudermilk singing traditionals and covering other songwriters

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Part 5: Loudermilk covering songs of other songwriters

songtitle:

John D Loudermilk recording:

original:

Susie's House
Columbia 41165, 1958.
Loudermilk first Columbia release.
This song also marks the end of John D. as a live performer. Performing the song for a teenage audience with the band unprepared for this music, Loudermilk forgot the words. The resulting debacle was his last public performance for 10 years.
Song written by Danny Wolfe, piano rock and roll songwriter. Also recorded in 1958 by Huelyn Duvall and Tooter Boatman, but these were released much later.
This Cold War With You
Columbia 41247, 1958
cover of the Floyd Tillman original of 1956
The Red Headed Stranger
Columbia 41507, 1959
An Edith Lindeman/ Carl Stutz song, later to become Willie Nelson's signature song. The original recording was probably by Arthur Smith in 1954 on MGM 11784.
The Happy Wanderer
(val-de-ri val-de-ra)
Columbia 41507, 1959
An old German 19th century (or older) song, Der fröhliche Wanderer, a scouting song. Registered as a Ridge/ Möller composition
Mary's Little Boy Child
1966 LP Sings a Bizarre Collection Of The Most Unusual Songs
Jester Hairston X-mas song, first done by Harry Belafonte on RCA in 1958
Talkin' Silver Cloud Blues
Silver Cloud II
A Silver Cloud II
1966 LP Sings a Bizarre Collection Of The Most Unusual Songs
A Gordon Lightfoot song. Gordon plays guitar on the session, he did not record this song for an album of his own. Ray Stevens plays organ.
The song tells about Ronnie Hawkins going into a Toronto Rolls dealer, buying a new car...
Great song, as far as I know JDL was the only one to record it
I Hear It Now
RCA 8973, 1966
A Chip Taylor song, used as b-side of 'You're The Guilty One'
May be JDL was the first to record this song. Later done by The Browns. No Chip Taylor recording as far as I could find.
Silver Cloud II Silver Cloud II
In 1968 an easy listening album by JDL was released. "Thirty minutes of uninterrupted mood music with orchestra conducted by Rick Powell", was the ominous text on the LP "Country Love Songs, Plain and Simply Sung by John D. Loudermilk".

The album contained only three JDL-composed songs. One new: We Wasted Our Time, two older, Oh How Sad and Everyone But You, that had been released on Loudermilk's 1962 LP (the second then titled Everybody Knows). The rest of the album contained rather superfluous covers of country standards. Not the kind of album that JDL-fans had been eagerly waiting for.
 
Am I That Easy To Forget
1968, LP Country Love Songs Plain And Simply Sung
This Carl Belew/ W.S. Stevenson/ Shelby Singleton evergreen was original done by Carl Belew in 1959 on Decca.
Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain
1968, LP Country Love Songs Plain And Simply Sung
This Fred Rose evergreen was original done by Roy Acuff & His Smokey Mountain Boys in 1946 on Columbia.
Here Comes My Baby Back Again
1968, LP Country Love Songs Plain And Simply Sung
Bill West/ Dottie West composition, a 1964 C&W smash
Honey
1968, LP Country Love Songs Plain And Simply Sung
composition by Bobby Russell, first done by Bob Shane on Decca and later giant hit by Bobby Golsboro in 1968
I Can't Stop Loving You
1968, LP Country Love Songs Plain And Simply Sung
the Don Gibson classic, original released by Gibson in 1958 on RCA as the b-side of Oh Lonesome Me
She Called Me Baby
1968, LP Country Love Songs Plain And Simply Sung
The Harlan Howard song, first done by the songwriter himself on his debut 1961 LP on Capitol
When Two Worlds Collide
1968, LP Country Love Songs Plain And Simply Sung
A Roger Miller song, originally done by Miller in 1961 on RCA
This World Is Not My Home
1978, LP Just Passing Through
an old hymn I used to hear my mother sing years ago, Loudermilk wrote in the liner notes, and added my instrument on this song is an Appalachian Mountain dulcimer

Last update Jun 2008