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{{Infobox album
This a list of songs known to have been written by award winning<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/08/arts/music/don-williams-dead-country-singer.html?mcubz=1/|title=Don Williams, Singer of Plain-Spoken Country Songs, Dies at 78|date=8 September 2017|newspaper=nytimes.com|access-date=9 September 2017}}</ref> [[United States|American]] [[Singer-songwriter|singer songwriter]] [[Don Williams]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/don-williams-mn0000196248/discography|title=Don Williams Discography|last=|first=|date=November 24, 2019|website=AllMusic|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=November 24, 2019}}</ref>
| name = Country Boy
[[File:Donwilliams.jpg|thumb|Don Williams wrote several top 20 hot country hits]]
| type = studio
| artist = [[Don Williams]]
| cover =
| alt =
| released = September 13, 1977
| studio =
| genre = [[country music|Country]]
| length =
| label = ABC-Dot
| producer = [[Don Williams]]
| prev_title = [[Visions_(Don_Williams_album)|Visions]]
| prev_year = 1977
| next_title = Expressions
| next_year = 1978
| misc = {{Singles
| name = Country Boy
| type = Studio
| single1 = [[I'm Just a Country Boy]]
| single1date = 1977
| single2 = [[I%27ve_Got_a_Winner_in_You|I've Got a Winner In You]]
| single2date = 1978
| single3 = [[Rake_and_Ramblin%27_Man|Rake and Ramblin' Man]]
| single3date = 1978
}}
}}
'''''Country Boy''''' is the seventh [[LP record|LP]] by [[United States|American]] [[Country music|country]] [[Singer-songwriter|singer and songwriter]] [[Don Williams]]. Released on September 13, [[1977 in country music|1977]] on the [[ABC Records|ABC]]-[[Dot Records|Dot]] label<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=2022-02-26 |title=Country Boy: Don Williams |url=https://archive.org/details/lp_country-boy_don-williams/page/n3/mode/1up |access-date=2024-12-24 |website=Internet Archive}}</ref>, the album reached number nine on the [[Billboard Country Albums|US Country Albums chart]].<ref name="US">{{cite magazine|title=Artist Chart History – Don Williams|url=http://www.billboard.com/|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]|accessdate=2010-12-02}}</ref> ''Country Boy'' was the second of two Don Williams albums released in 1977, along with ''[[Visions (Don Williams album)|Visions]]'', which was released first, in January.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Stambler|first=Irwin|title=Country Music: The Encyclopedia|publisher=St. Martins|year=2000|isbn=0312151217|location=New York|pages=539}}</ref> Three singles were released from the album, and all three were top ten country chart hits: "[[I'm Just a Country Boy]]" was released first in 1977<ref name=":1">{{Cite magazine |date=1977-08-20 |title=Billboard's Top Single Picks |url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Billboard/70s/1977/Billboard%201977-08-20.pdf |magazine=Billboard}}</ref>, and was Williams' second consecutive number one hit (following "[[Some Broken Hearts Never Mend]]"). The following two singles released in 1978 were "[[I've Got a Winner in You|I've Got a Winner In You]]," which reached number seven, and "[[Rake and Ramblin' Man]]," which reached number three.<ref name="whitburn">{{cite book|last=Whitburn|first=Joel|title=Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008|publisher=Record Research, Inc|year=2008|isbn=978-0-89820-177-2|pages=463–464}}</ref>


== Songs ==
== Background ==
{{inc-musong}}
{| class="wikitable"
|+'''Songs written by Williams, with original, co-writers and originating album, showing year released (sortable)<ref name=":0" />'''
!Title
!Co-writer(s)
!Release
!Year
!US Country<ref name="whitburn2">{{cite book|title=Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008|last=Whitburn|first=Joel|publisher=Record Research, Inc|year=2008|isbn=0-89820-177-2|pages=463–464}}</ref>
|-
|"Too Late To Turn Back Now"
|Allen Reynolds
|Don Williams Volume One
|1973
|
|-
|"[[The Shelter of Your Eyes]]"
|
|Don Williams Volume One
|1973
|14
|-
|"[[I Recall a Gypsy Woman]]"
|Reynolds, Bob McDill
|Don Williams Volume One
|1973
|13
|-
|"How Much Time Does It Take"
|
|Don Williams Volume One
|1973
|
|-
|"My Woman's Love"
|
|Don Williams Volume One
|1973
|
|-
|"Don't You Believe"
|
|Don Williams Volume One
|1973
|
|-
|"Your Sweet Love"
|
|Don Williams Volume Two
|1974
|
|-
|"[[Atta Way to Go|Atta Way To Go]]"
|
|Don Williams Volume Two
|1974
|13
|-
|"Oh Misery"
|
|Don Williams Volume Two
|1974
|
|-
|"Down The Road I Go"
|
|Don Williams Volume Two
|1974
|
|-
|"Fly Away"
|
|Don Williams Vol. III
|1974
|
|-
|"Goodbye Really Isn't Good at All"
|
|Don Williams Vol. III
|1974
|
|-
|"Such a Lovely Lady"
|
|Don Williams Vol. III
|1974
|
|-
|"Why Lord Goodbye"
|
|Don Williams Vol. III
|1974
|
|-
|"Where Are You"
|
|"You're My Best Friend"
|1975
|
|-
|"You're the Only One"
|
|"You're My Best Friend"
|1975
|
|-
|"Reason To Be"
|Kerry Livgren
|"You're My Best Friend"
|1975
|
|-
|"'[['Til the Rivers All Run Dry|Til the Rivers All Run Dry]]"
|Wayland Holyfield
|"Harmony"
|1976
|1
|-
|"You Keep Coming 'Round"
|
|"Harmony"
|1976
|
|-
|"Don't You Think It's Time"
|
|"Harmony"
|1976
|
|-
|"I Don't Want the Money"
|
|"Harmony"
|1976
|
|-
|"Maybe I Just Don't Know"
|
|"Harmony"
|1976
|
|-
|"Ramblin' (instrumental)"
|
|"Harmony"
|1976
|
|-
|"I'll Never Forget"
|
|"Visions"
|1977
|
|-
|"In the Mornin'"
|
|"Visions"
|1977
|
|-
|"Missing You, Missing Me"
|Allen Reynolds
|"Visions"
|1977
|
|-
|"We Can Sing"
|
|"Visions"
|1977
|
|-
|"Overlookin' and Underthinkin'"
|Joe Allen, Deoin Elijah Lay
|"Country Boy"
|1977
|
|-
|"[[I've Got a Winner in You|I've Got a Winner In You]]"
|Wayland Holyfield
|"Country Boy"
|1977
|7
|-
|"It's Gotta Be Magic"
|
|"Country Boy"
|1977
|
|-
|"[[Lay Down Beside Me]]"
|
|"Expressions"
|1978
|3
|-
|"We're All the Way"
|
|"Portrait"
|1979
|
|-
|"You Get To Me"
|
|"Portrait"
|1979
|
|-
|"Love Me Over Again"
|
|"Portrait"
|1979
|1
|-
|"If She Just Helps Me Get Me Get Over You"
|Allen Reynolds
|"Listen To the Radio"
|1982
|
|-
|"Leaving"
|
|"Cafe Carolina"
|1984
|
|-
|"True Blue Hearts"
|
|"Cafe Carolina"
|1984
|
|}


Don Williams spent the summer of 1977 touring in road shows with [[Jerry Jeff Walker]], [[Waylon Jennings]] and [[Emmylou Harris]], and splitting his time recording in the studio.<ref name=":2">{{Cite magazine |last=Wood |first=Gerry |date=1977-09-03 |title=Finalists Tabbed for CMA Awards |url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Billboard/70s/1977/Billboard%201977-09-03.pdf |magazine=Billboard |pages=82–83}}</ref> Willams produced the album himself, and contributed writing on some of the songs.<ref>{{Cite magazine |date=1977-10-01 |title=Billboard's Top Album Picks |url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Billboard/70s/1977/Billboard%201977-10-01.pdf |magazine=Billboard}}</ref>
#

#
The single "[[I'm Just a Country Boy]]" was released in August 1977 in advance of the album, and in the ''Billboard'' review for the single it was described as:<blockquote>
#
Beautiful, soft arrangement of the old evergreen should take Williams back to No. 1 on the Hot Country Singles chart and perhaps establish him on the Hot 100 pop chart...instrumentation kept mainly in the background, focusing attention on the flawless Williams delivery.<ref name=":1" /></blockquote>The prediction was correct, and by the week before the release of the album, the single went from #51 to #2 on the Billboard hot country singles chart.<ref>{{Cite magazine |date=1977-09-10 |title=Billboard Hot Country Singles |url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Billboard/70s/1977/Billboard%201977-09-10.pdf |magazine=Billboard}}</ref> Williams' record label, ABC/Dot developed a strategy to cross market Williams to the US Pop market, and "I'm Just a Country Boy" was released to pop stations that played both country and rock music.<ref name=":3">{{Cite magazine |date=1977-09-24 |title=Crossover? ABC/Dot Devises Campaign to Popularize Don Williams |url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Billboard/70s/1977/Billboard%201977-09-24.pdf |magazine=Billboard}}</ref>
#

#
Shortly before the release of the ''Country Boy'' album, it was announced that Don Williams was a finalist for best male vocalist by the [[Country Music Association Awards|CMA Awards]].<ref name=":2" /> In October it was announced that Williams would also perform on the 11th annual CMA Awards, hosted by Johnny Cash.<ref>{{Cite magazine |date=1977-10-08 |title=Cash Heads CMA Talent |url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Billboard/70s/1977/Billboard%201977-10-08.pdf |magazine=Billboard |pages=74}}</ref>

Upon release of the album in September, he embarked on a short tour of England before returning to the US to play Las Vegas in November.<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Nelson |first=Pat |date=1977-08-27 |title=Nashville Scene |url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Billboard/70s/1977/Billboard%201977-08-27.pdf |magazine=Billboard |pages=66}}</ref> Williams was especially popular in England and Europe in 1977, where he collected a gold and silver album awards for ''Visions'', ''Harmony'' and ''You're My Best Friend.''<ref>{{Cite magazine |date=1977-09-17 |title=Williams Clicks |url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Billboard/70s/1977/Billboard%201977-09-17.pdf |magazine=Billboard |via=World Radio History}}</ref> The decision to market him to a mainstream American audience was in large part driven by his unexpected success in Europe.<ref name=":3" />

== Track listing ==
from the original [[Phonograph record|vinyl]]<ref name=":0" />

'''Side A'''

# "[[I'm Just a Country Boy]]" ([[Fred Hellerman]], [[Marshall Barer]]) - 3:01
# "[[Louisiana Saturday Night]]" ([[Bob McDill]]) - 2:20
# "Overlookin' and Underthinkin'" (D. Lay, Don Williams, Joe Allen) - 3:26
# "Sneakin' Around" (Bob McDill) - 2:40
# "Look Around You" (Bill Joor, Buck Lindsey) - 2:55

'''Side B'''

# "I've Got a Winner In You" (Don Williams, Wayland Holyfield) - 2:34
# "Rake and Ramblin' Man" (Bob McDill) - 2:50
# "Too Many Tears (To Make Love Strong)" (Jim Rushing) - 3:18
# "It's Gotta Be Magic" (Don Williams) - 2:48
# "Falling In Love" (Bob McDill, Wayland Holyfield) - 2:15

== Personnel<ref name=":0" /> ==

* Acoustic guitar – Bob McDill
* Acoustic guitar, electric guitar – Dave Kirby*, Jimmy Colvard
* String arranger, accordion, organ, piano, vibraphone – Charles Cochran
* Art direction – John Donegan
* Bass – Joe Allen
* Design – David Wright
* Drums, congas, percussion – Kenny Malone
* Electric piano, acoustic piano – Shane Keister
* Engineer, backing vocals – Garth Fundis
* Fiddle – Buddy Spicher
* Harp, electric guitar – Danny Flowers
* Illustration – Whole Hog Studios, LTD*
* Percussion [hand claps] – Jim Jerome
* Steel guitar, dobro – Lloyd Green
* Strings – Carl Gorodetzky, Gary Vanosdale, George Binkley, Lennie Haight, Marvin Chantry, Roy Christensen, Sheldon Kurland, Steven Maxwell Smith*, Wilfred Lehmann*
* Vocals, acoustic guitar, producer, backing vocals – Don Williams
* Recorded at Jack Clement Recording Studios


== References ==
== References ==
<references group="" responsive="1"></references>{{Don Williams}}
<references responsive="1"></references>{{Don Williams}}

[[:Category:1977 albums]]
[[:Category:Don Williams albums]]
[[:Category:ABC Records albums]]
[[:Category: Dot Records albums]]

Latest revision as of 20:20, 26 December 2024

Country Boy
Studio album by
Don Williams
ReleasedSeptember 13, 1977
GenreCountry
LabelABC-Dot
ProducerDon Williams
Don Williams chronology
Visions
(1977) 		Country Boy
(1977) 		Expressions
(1978)
Singles from Country Boy
  1. "I'm Just a Country Boy"
    Released: 1977
  2. "I've Got a Winner In You"
    Released: 1978
  3. "Rake and Ramblin' Man"
    Released: 1978

Country Boy is the seventh LP by American country singer and songwriter Don Williams. Released on September 13, 1977 on the ABC-Dot label[1], the album reached number nine on the US Country Albums chart.[2] Country Boy was the second of two Don Williams albums released in 1977, along with Visions, which was released first, in January.[3] Three singles were released from the album, and all three were top ten country chart hits: "I'm Just a Country Boy" was released first in 1977[4], and was Williams' second consecutive number one hit (following "Some Broken Hearts Never Mend"). The following two singles released in 1978 were "I've Got a Winner In You," which reached number seven, and "Rake and Ramblin' Man," which reached number three.[5]

Background

[edit]

Don Williams spent the summer of 1977 touring in road shows with Jerry Jeff Walker, Waylon Jennings and Emmylou Harris, and splitting his time recording in the studio.[6] Willams produced the album himself, and contributed writing on some of the songs.[7]

The single "I'm Just a Country Boy" was released in August 1977 in advance of the album, and in the Billboard review for the single it was described as:

Beautiful, soft arrangement of the old evergreen should take Williams back to No. 1 on the Hot Country Singles chart and perhaps establish him on the Hot 100 pop chart...instrumentation kept mainly in the background, focusing attention on the flawless Williams delivery.[4]

The prediction was correct, and by the week before the release of the album, the single went from #51 to #2 on the Billboard hot country singles chart.[8] Williams' record label, ABC/Dot developed a strategy to cross market Williams to the US Pop market, and "I'm Just a Country Boy" was released to pop stations that played both country and rock music.[9]

Shortly before the release of the Country Boy album, it was announced that Don Williams was a finalist for best male vocalist by the CMA Awards.[6] In October it was announced that Williams would also perform on the 11th annual CMA Awards, hosted by Johnny Cash.[10]

Upon release of the album in September, he embarked on a short tour of England before returning to the US to play Las Vegas in November.[11] Williams was especially popular in England and Europe in 1977, where he collected a gold and silver album awards for Visions, Harmony and You're My Best Friend.[12] The decision to market him to a mainstream American audience was in large part driven by his unexpected success in Europe.[9]

Track listing

[edit]

from the original vinyl[1]

Side A

  1. "I'm Just a Country Boy" (Fred Hellerman, Marshall Barer) - 3:01
  2. "Louisiana Saturday Night" (Bob McDill) - 2:20
  3. "Overlookin' and Underthinkin'" (D. Lay, Don Williams, Joe Allen) - 3:26
  4. "Sneakin' Around" (Bob McDill) - 2:40
  5. "Look Around You" (Bill Joor, Buck Lindsey) - 2:55

Side B

  1. "I've Got a Winner In You" (Don Williams, Wayland Holyfield) - 2:34
  2. "Rake and Ramblin' Man" (Bob McDill) - 2:50
  3. "Too Many Tears (To Make Love Strong)" (Jim Rushing) - 3:18
  4. "It's Gotta Be Magic" (Don Williams) - 2:48
  5. "Falling In Love" (Bob McDill, Wayland Holyfield) - 2:15

Personnel[1]

[edit]
  • Acoustic guitar – Bob McDill
  • Acoustic guitar, electric guitar – Dave Kirby*, Jimmy Colvard
  • String arranger, accordion, organ, piano, vibraphone – Charles Cochran
  • Art direction – John Donegan
  • Bass – Joe Allen
  • Design – David Wright
  • Drums, congas, percussion – Kenny Malone
  • Electric piano, acoustic piano – Shane Keister
  • Engineer, backing vocals – Garth Fundis
  • Fiddle – Buddy Spicher
  • Harp, electric guitar – Danny Flowers
  • Illustration – Whole Hog Studios, LTD*
  • Percussion [hand claps] – Jim Jerome
  • Steel guitar, dobro – Lloyd Green
  • Strings – Carl Gorodetzky, Gary Vanosdale, George Binkley, Lennie Haight, Marvin Chantry, Roy Christensen, Sheldon Kurland, Steven Maxwell Smith*, Wilfred Lehmann*
  • Vocals, acoustic guitar, producer, backing vocals – Don Williams
  • Recorded at Jack Clement Recording Studios

References

[edit]
  1. ^ a b c "Country Boy: Don Williams". Internet Archive. 2022-02-26. Retrieved 2024-12-24.
  2. ^ "Artist Chart History – Don Williams". Billboard. Retrieved 2010-12-02.
  3. ^ Stambler, Irwin (2000). Country Music: The Encyclopedia. New York: St. Martins. p. 539. ISBN 0312151217.
  4. ^ a b "Billboard's Top Single Picks" (PDF). Billboard. 1977-08-20.
  5. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2008). Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008. Record Research, Inc. pp. 463–464. ISBN 978-0-89820-177-2.
  6. ^ a b Wood, Gerry (1977-09-03). "Finalists Tabbed for CMA Awards" (PDF). Billboard. pp. 82–83.
  7. ^ "Billboard's Top Album Picks" (PDF). Billboard. 1977-10-01.
  8. ^ "Billboard Hot Country Singles" (PDF). Billboard. 1977-09-10.
  9. ^ a b "Crossover? ABC/Dot Devises Campaign to Popularize Don Williams" (PDF). Billboard. 1977-09-24.
  10. ^ "Cash Heads CMA Talent" (PDF). Billboard. 1977-10-08. p. 74.
  11. ^ Nelson, Pat (1977-08-27). "Nashville Scene" (PDF). Billboard. p. 66.
  12. ^ "Williams Clicks" (PDF). Billboard. 1977-09-17 – via World Radio History.

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