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23 Apr 02 - 10:46 AM (#696487) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Need Artist and Title From: Sorcha You're coming up with some obscure stuff. No hits on Google or Cowpie...........sorry. |
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23 Apr 02 - 09:26 PM (#697066) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Need Artist and Title From: July4thbby Yes, I get some weird request. I try to help people but can't win them all. Messages from multiple threads combined. Messages below are from a new thread. |
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22 Jul 03 - 09:26 PM (#988481) Subject: Country Ballad From: GUEST,Cruiser 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 |
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23 Jul 03 - 12:08 AM (#988566) Subject: RE: 1974/75 Song Title/Songstress Search From: katlaughing 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 |
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27 Jul 03 - 03:27 AM (#991366) Subject: RE: 1974/75 Song Title/Songstress Search From: Cruiser 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 |
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27 Apr 04 - 10:11 PM (#1172878) Subject: RE: 1974/75 Song Title/Songstress Search From: Cruiser I'll try this search again since this is the 30th anniversary since I last heard the song. Thanks, Cruiser |
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16 May 05 - 01:46 PM (#1486104) Subject: RE: 1974/75 Song Title/Songstress Search From: Cruiser 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 |
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16 May 05 - 02:42 PM (#1486135) Subject: RE: 1974/75 Song Title/Songstress Search From: Big Al Whittle 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 |
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18 May 05 - 02:12 AM (#1487043) Subject: RE: 1974/75 Song Title/Songstress Search From: GUEST 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) |
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19 May 05 - 01:10 AM (#1487816) Subject: RE: 1974/75 Song Title/Songstress Search From: Joe Offer frefresh |
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09 Aug 06 - 12:52 PM (#1805348) Subject: RE: 1974/75 Song Title/Songstress Search From: Cruiser 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} |
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09 Aug 06 - 03:16 PM (#1805494) Subject: RE: 1974/75 Song Title/Songstress Search From: Brakn "If I Only Had Time" was a hit in England in 1968 for a New Zealand singer called John Rowles. It got to #3. |
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09 Aug 06 - 06:07 PM (#1805633) Subject: RE: 1974/75 Song Title/Songstress Search From: Cruiser 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 |
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09 Aug 06 - 06:19 PM (#1805636) Subject: RE: 1974/75 Song Title/Songstress Search From: Brakn "Veil of White Lace" was a hit Ireland but I think it's unknown in England. |
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09 Aug 06 - 06:26 PM (#1805642) Subject: RE: 1974/75 Song Title/Songstress Search From: Cruiser 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 |
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17 Feb 08 - 04:27 PM (#2264804) Subject: RE: 1974/75 Song Title/Songstress Search From: Cruiser 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. |
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17 Feb 08 - 04:59 PM (#2264827) Subject: RE: 1974/75 Song Title/Songstress Search From: Melissa 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? |
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18 Feb 08 - 10:37 AM (#2265364) Subject: RE: 1974/75 Song Title/Songstress Search From: Cruiser 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. |