1974/75 Song Title/Songstress Search

Subject: Need Artist and Title
From: July4thbby
Date: 22 Apr 02 - 10:50 PM

Does anyone know the title of this song??

1975-ish...female singer...these are some of the lyrics:

Your collar is frayed and your Levis are dusty
My kinfolk all say you look mean
Your pickup is old and your trailer is rusty
But your riggin is ready and clean

Chorus
I tell you don't ask me for entrance fee money
That old rodeo has got my last dime
But you know that I know your mine for the asking
Cause you love me, when you're got time.

Thanks

Line Breaks <br> added.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Need Artist and Title
From: Sorcha
Date: 23 Apr 02 - 10:46 AM

You're coming up with some obscure stuff. No hits on Google or Cowpie...........sorry.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Need Artist and Title
From: July4thbby
Date: 23 Apr 02 - 09:26 PM

Yes, I get some weird request. I try to help people but can't win them all.

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-Joe Offer-

Subject: Country Ballad
From: GUEST,Cruiser
Date: 22 Jul 03 - 09:26 PM

I've posted this song search on many other boards. The songstress must have been a "One Hit Country Wonder or Less" because I've been looking for the song/artist for 25+ years. I heard this song when I lived in Yuma, AZ after being discharged from the Army in October 1974. The song was playing on a local country radio station during the fall of 1974 and the winter/spring of 1975. It was by a female singer and struck a "chord" with me because it was about a rodeo cowboy, something I did in high school and college. Here are the lyrics and the meter was in 3/4 time:
Your collar is frayed and your Levis are dusty, my kinfolks all say you look mean.

Your pickup is old and your trailer is rusty, but your riggin' is ready and clean.

Chorus/Refrain:

I tell you don't ask me for entrance fee money, that ol' rodeo's got my last dime

But I know that you know I'm yours for the askin', cause you love me when you've got time

This song may have been a regional "hit" song because I can't find it on internet searches or in my copy of Joel Whitburn's "Top Country Singles" 1944-1993 by Billboard or in his "Bubbling Under" book. The song was out at the same time as Jeannie Seely's hit "He Can Be Mine"

Thanks,
Cruiser

Subject: RE: 1974/75 Song Title/Songstress Search
From: katlaughing
Date: 23 Jul 03 - 12:08 AM

There are a few more of the words in this thread (above) from a while back. I'll email a couple of friends who were djs back then and see if they know.

kat

Subject: RE: 1974/75 Song Title/Songstress Search
From: Cruiser
Date: 27 Jul 03 - 03:27 AM

Thanks katlaughing.

This song has been a tough one. I would like to think I made it up but the lyrics are too good and I remember the melody and the singers voice.

I may have to change the lyrical lines and record it:

MY collar is frayed and MY...

YOU tell me don't ask YOU...

Then the copyright hounds would hear it and sue me, but at least I could finally find out the information about the song.

Cruiser

Subject: RE: 1974/75 Song Title/Songstress Search
From: Cruiser
Date: 27 Apr 04 - 10:11 PM

I'll try this search again since this is the 30th anniversary since I last heard the song.

Thanks,

Cruiser

Subject: RE: 1974/75 Song Title/Songstress Search
From: Cruiser
Date: 16 May 05 - 01:46 PM

It has been over a year since my last post about this song. I'll try at least annually for this song search here, even though it is a country-western type song.

Cruiser

Subject: RE: 1974/75 Song Title/Songstress Search
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 16 May 05 - 02:42 PM

well as its such a long time ago, the girl in the song has probably by now come to realise that her Mum was right and the guy in the jeans was a bit of a scuffler, and she was better off with the someone with decent life cover, gold credit card and a car thats not always breaking down.

all the best

al

Subject: RE: 1974/75 Song Title/Songstress Search
From: GUEST
Date: 18 May 05 - 02:12 AM

to bad you cant come up with a piece of the title or name of artist?

so many female singers thru the years

i finally found a song i had been looking for -
FOR OVER 50 YEARS .. just recently...

FERTILIZER by Leo Teel - tho it is not the version i remember,
i remember a more dignified recording and smoother rendition.

while walking down the street one day i met a little fellar
when i asked him what his name was, he began to bellar

my pappy's name is Ferdinand, my mammmy's name is Liza
and so between the two of them, they named me FERTILIZER.

FERTILIZER had so many other little brothers
he said they used up all the names while namin' all the others

ran across it here:

http://www.john-book.com/Rev94Three/lightsout03.htm

Gene

took several years to find OKIE JONES rendition of
SEND ME A PENNY POSTCARD [that goes way back)

Subject: RE: 1974/75 Song Title/Songstress Search
From: Joe Offer
Date: 19 May 05 - 01:10 AM

frefresh

Subject: RE: 1974/75 Song Title/Songstress Search
From: Cruiser
Date: 09 Aug 06 - 12:52 PM

Here is my annual post of this thread. This is about the last song I have yet to find in my long search of songs from over the past 50 years or so. Mudcat, the Internet, and Joel Whitburn's books have made it possible to find the songs.

I found one song recently that I had been searching for over a 35-year period. It was an instrumental called "If I Only Had Time". I recently heard it on an internet radio stream and got the title. I then found a version with lyrics by Earl Grant. His song did not chart, not even on the Bubbling Under charts, but it is one of my favorites. My musical tastes often include obscure, uncharted music. I am glad some artists think the same way and take a chance recording these songs.

"If I Only Had Time"
Nick DeCaro
1/11/69
Peaked at #95
Length 3:10
Rank: 626 out of 671 to make the top 100.
{Source: Joel Whitburn's POP ANNUAL 1955-1999 Billboard}

Subject: RE: 1974/75 Song Title/Songstress Search
From: Brakn
Date: 09 Aug 06 - 03:16 PM

"If I Only Had Time" was a hit in England in 1968 for a New Zealand singer called John Rowles. It got to #3.

Subject: RE: 1974/75 Song Title/Songstress Search
From: Cruiser
Date: 09 Aug 06 - 06:07 PM

Interesting Brakn. I've noticed that the English often have somewhat high chart hits of songs that the U.S. ignores. I think "Veil of White Lace" is another example.

I am mostly Irish so I don't know why I have an Englishman's predilection for music!

Thanks,
Cruiser

Subject: RE: 1974/75 Song Title/Songstress Search
From: Brakn
Date: 09 Aug 06 - 06:19 PM

"Veil of White Lace" was a hit Ireland but I think it's unknown in England.

Subject: RE: 1974/75 Song Title/Songstress Search
From: Cruiser
Date: 09 Aug 06 - 06:26 PM

Thanks for the correction. I had a reply to a thread on Mudcat about "Veil" awhile back and was told it was a hit in Ireland. My Irish, or my "Arsh" as my grandfather pronounced it, is showing. One should never get the English and Irish confused, correct?!

Thanks again Brakn,
Cruiser

Subject: RE: 1974/75 Song Title/Songstress Search
From: Cruiser
Date: 17 Feb 08 - 04:27 PM

I missed my annual (usually summertime) request for information for this song. Don't guess I will ever find this song out and I will grow old and die trying, I guess...33 years and counting since 1974/75...in another 33 years I 'might' be a spry 92.

Subject: RE: 1974/75 Song Title/Songstress Search
From: Melissa
Date: 17 Feb 08 - 04:59 PM

I hope you keep trying, Cruiser...the bit of lyrics perked a couple of my brain cells by seeming familiar and now I'm curious!

What area of the world?

Subject: RE: 1974/75 Song Title/Songstress Search
From: Cruiser
Date: 18 Feb 08 - 10:37 AM

The southwestern U.S. including Arizona. The song may have been just a 'regional hit' and perhaps never made it past the vinyl demo record stage of recording.