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.
Back to part 1, 1956-1960 The Colonial, Columbia, Universal-Cedarwood years
Back to part 2, 1960-1963 RCA, Hickory, Nashville, teen, hillbilly and novelty
Back to part 3, 1963-1969 Nashville, bizarre and open minded singer-songwriter
Back to part 4, 1970 & later MIM, Europe, years of retirement
This is part 5, Loudermilk singing traditionals and covering other songwriters
To part 6, unknown songs/covers - info wanted!
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Part 5: Loudermilk covering songs of other songwriters
songtitle: |
John D Loudermilk recording: |
original: |
Susie's House |
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. |
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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
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. |
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. |
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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.
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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.
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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
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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