Classic Country Music Fans--So what does this tell you?!
Question: Have you all noticed that when we put up the questions there are so many different artists that have recorded the same song and sometimes even more than one had a hit with the same song. Don't you think the folks that say classic country is no good or boring should take a lesson from this. It must be good stuff or so many wouldn't be recording it multiple times. Besides if it wasn't great we wouldn't have anything to have fun with on here and to listen and enjoy. What are your thoughts on this?
Answers: Have you all noticed that when we put up the questions there are so many different artists that have recorded the same song and sometimes even more than one had a hit with the same song. Don't you think the folks that say classic country is no good or boring should take a lesson from this. It must be good stuff or so many wouldn't be recording it multiple times. Besides if it wasn't great we wouldn't have anything to have fun with on here and to listen and enjoy. What are your thoughts on this?
EVERYTHING HAS BEEN SAID THAT I WANTED TO SAY..THUMBS UP TO EVERYBODY AND A STAR FOR YOU TOMMY!
Personaly I like Marty Robbins
I've noticed...and you are right! It must have been great stuff if everyone wanted to record it!! I love it ALL!!
I ain`t bashful, I`m from Nashville!
Dolly Parton: I Will Always Love You.#1
Whitney Houston: I Will Always Love You,#1
I'll Be All Smiles Tonight, numerous artist,Recorded many times by many artist,Thanks for a great question,Some Act like they may be playing above their raisin
You are so right, some of the newer artists "'top hits" were from music that was"written by classic artists," they just changed the words. "Red Neck Bottle Leave Go My Hand" is a good example and the most blatent
perfect example is Mark Chesnutt.... He's remade and hit the charts with lots of remakes....
He's a classic country artist in a way in his own right (as he technically came out in 1990) but still charts today...
So here is his remake list:
"Woman, Sensuous Woman" (charted to 21) done originally by Ferlin Husky and I beleive Johnny Paycheck
"Down in Tennessee" original of John Anderson
and on the charts right this minute....
"Rollin' With the Flow" originally done by Charlie Rich
It was customary back then for artists to record other artists' songs as covers on their album cuts. One of the best versions of Don Cherry's Band Of Gold I've ever heard was an album cut of Eddy Arnold's, and Eddy also had a great album cut of Dave & Sugar's My World Begind And Ends With You some years later. I really like Tommy Overstreet's version of Johnny Duncan's Sweet Country Woman. Johnny Duncan turned around and made a sweet album cut out of David Houston's My Woman's Good To Me, and he also has one of the best versions of Cowboy And The Lady ever recorded. Then there's Ray Price's version of Turn Around, Look At Me, charted by The Vogues. Now that's a song I wish would appear on CD somewhere, but as an album cut that was never charted, I'm going to have to suffer until I can figure out how to get my vinyl put into the computer.
It's funny; I don't tend to like a charted cover all that much, but there are plenty of exceptions. Tompall and the Glaser Brothers did Don Gibson and Kris Kristofferson songs in the '80s very well, and Denise Williams turned up with a great version of the Royalette's It's Gonna Take A Miracle. But those song-trades the country artists did in the '60s and '70s, ones that never made the charts, can really be hidden gold sometimes.
This practice is just not followed any more. The artists aren't putting out good-enough songs to justify the practice of others borrowing them for album cuts.
I agree, you are right. I have always thought the same exact thing to be honest....I mean, don't go dissing classic country when the songs that you listen to TODAY are probably re-cut songs by new/young artists!
Agree totally. Good songs never get stale, different artists put their individual touch on a song, but if it wasn't good they wouldn't bother. Why not just go with all new otherwise. As I asked how many had recorded "Tennesse Waltz" the other day, no one really knew, but at least 12-15. That's a sign of a great song.
I think you hit the nail on the head tommy!! Them songs have been done like that 'cause they are the best!!
Star for you!!!
The "classic-true" country music laid the ground work for the fly-by-night singers that are calling them self country.
And to borrow from Barbara Mandrel "I Was Country When Country Wasn't Cool"
Keep it country-Keep it classic country.