Willie's Roadhouse Playlist

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Singer/guitarist/comedian Urel Albert (1928-1992) released two albums and 16 singles between 1969 and 1978 and never had a chart hit. On his first single, Saturday Night In Nashville, released in May 1969, he does impressions of Hank Snow, Bill Anderson, Roy Acuff, Tex Ritter, Bill Monroe, Marty Robbins and Ernest Tubb.

 

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Kelsey Weekman, a free-lance pop culture writer and former BuzzFeed News reporter, put together a list of what she claims are the 100 biggest country songs of all time. Leroy Van Dyke's Walk On By is #2. Weekman says it "spent 37 weeks on the country chart in 1961, with a record-breaking 19 in the #1 spot." Record-breaking? Really? Eddy Arnold's I'll Hold You In My Heart was number one for 21 weeks, Webb Pierce's In The Jailhouse Now was number one for 21 weeks. Hank Snow's I'm Movin' On was number one for 21 weeks. Hank Snow's I Don't Hurt Anymore was number one for 20 weeks. But the list doesn't include any songs from before 1959. Why not??? The song Weekman says is the all-time biggest was number one for only three weeks. Here is the list:

The biggest country song in music history. Plus, see if your favorite made the top 100.

www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/the-biggest-country-song-in-music-history-plus-see-if-your-favorite-made-the-top-100/ss-AA1hS9EP

 

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One of my obsessions is trying to identify uncredited background singers on recordings. Willie's Roadhouse just played Brenda Lee's Big Four Poster Bed, written by Shel Silverstein, who also wrote Johnny Cash's A Boy Named Sue, Loretta Lynn's One's On The Way, Tompall Glaser's Put Another Log On The Fire, the Irish Rovers' The Unicorn and many other hits.

Big Four Poster Bed reached #4 on Billboard's country chart in September 1974 and featured background vocals by the Nashville Sounds. The members were Karen Heflin, Louis Nunley, Jeanine Walker and William Guilford Wright Jr. In the years 1969 to 1981, they sang on hundreds of songs by Eddy Arnold, Perry Como, Johnny Cash, Conway Twitty, Roy Clark, Donna Fargo, Patti Page, Willie Nelson, Kenny Rogers, Loretta Lynn, George Beverly Shea, Tennessee Ernie Ford and others.