Glen Campbell

Posted on October 30, 2011 by Admin

Try a little kindness

One of my favourite love songs I had on a Glen Campbell record called: “Try a little kindness.” What a great song. What the world needs now is more love and kindness, and less hatred and criticism.

Daughter Ashley – Dueling banjos

It is so nice to see father and daughter playing together.

Hey little one

This seems to be about his wife. It is so lonely being alone in this world.

Rhinestone Cowboy

This was a big hit for Glen Campbell.

Galveston

I have often heard this song on the radio.

Green green grass of home

Oh lonesome me

Gentle on my mind

Don’t think twice, it’s all right – with Anne Murray

Southern nights

Jesus and me “live”

I sang a song on my LP with the same title, but this is a different song. It is interesting the things he says here about his children.

I also have a Gospel web site. If you want to check it out, go to:  http://countrygospelandbible.com/

 

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Favourite Love Songs by Connie Francis

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Everybody’s somebody’s fool – My favourite love song by Connie Francis

“Everybody’s somebody’s fool, everybody’s somebody’s baby, there are no exceptions to the rule, yes everybody’s somebody’s fool.” It feels like words of wisdom. I heard this song when I was a kid, and about ten years ago my wife bought me a three tape pack of Connie’s famous songs. I used to drive taxi on night shift, and always had her singing to me when I was coming in from a far away city. When I was alone in the car, I would turn up the volume, and it was as if I could feel the beating of her heart as she sang those heart rendering songs.

Jealous heart

One time in the taxi, I was driving a woman and her children to Niagara Falls, and I suspected she was leaving her husband. I was playing the tape of Connie singing this song, and she started crying, saying that the song was so true.

Heartaches by the number

I was very shocked when I read her book of how she was attacked in her motel room. It must have been a terrible ordeal. I used to think that the rich and famous people had it made, and lived such peaceful happy lives. I guess I was wrong. I was shocked when I read Debbie Reynold’s book of how she was robbed in her Hollywood home. She could have been killed, and the same with Connie Francis. So, none of us are immune to troubles.

I walk the line

When I was a kid hearing her sing this song, I had never even heard of Johnny Cash, who wrote the song and originally recorded it. In different parts of the world we hear and see things very differently from the people in America. I love the music backing on her recordings. When I read her book, it was her dad who arranged and paid for the band. When she wasn’t getting anywhere, she decided to quit, and arranged to get a steady job. Then she heard her song on the TV: “Who’s sorry now” and that changed everything. Even these now famous people have their times when they find it hard to be a success, and want to quit.

My Happiness

I found myself singing this song the other day while driving the car, and it is still one of my favourite love songs. Many singers have sung this song, but I love her harmony.

A LOT OF HER SONGS HAVE BEEN TAKEN OFF THE NET. I also have a Gospel web site. If you want to check it out, go to:  http://countrygospelandbible.com/

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Family Love Songs

Posted on October 30, 2011 by Admin

There are many family songs out there, and some are included in some of the other categories, like Bobby Bare “Singing in the kitchen,” but here are a few that are very dear to my heart.

I’ve lost my mummy

To me this song is so funny. I heard it on the radio in the 60’s when I lived in Bulawayo, and always associate it with the OK Bazaar store. Rolf Harris has so much personality and talent. I saw him once on TV in Vancouver where he painted a massive picture while he was singing.

Daddy sang bass

I loved this song that I heard by Johnny Cash, and have sung it many times. When we were kids, my parents took us to church quite often, and we would travel a lot in the car. My dad had a Morris van, and we would sit in the back and sing choruses all the time. The song was written by Carl Perkins, and when he was on the way to New York to promote his song “Blue Suede Shoes,” he had a car accident, and his brother died. I think of that in the song where he says: “Little brother has done gone on, but I’ll rejoin him in a song.”

Silver Haired Daddy of mine

I first heard that song by Jim Reeves. It is one of my favorite love songs about a dad. It was written by Gene Autry. I had a cowboy comic about Gene Autry when I was a kid. “If I could repay all the heartaches, dear old daddy I caused you to bear. If I could erase the lines from your face, and bring back the gold to your hair. If God would but grant me the power, to turn back the pages of time. I’d give all I own if I could but atone, to that silver haired daddy of mine.”

I. O. U.

I remember seeing Jimmy Dean sing this song on TV in Vancouver, about all the sacrifices a mother makes because of her love for her children. God bless the mothers.

Family song

I first heard this song: “The family who prays” on a Porter Wagoner record I had. When Pat Boone sang in South Africa, I noticed that he had an LP record of this song for sale. Here are the Louvin Brothers.

You’ve gotta have heart

I have heard a guy sing this song on the radio a couple of times recently, and it has a very positive message. Very different from a lot of the country songs, and I felt it was good for me. As I searched the net for it, I preferred these children’s version of the song, so here it is. Unfortunately there seem to be a few glitches in the song, but you will get the message.

To a sleeping beauty

I have a record of Jimmy Dean singing this song. There are some good words there.

Jambalaya by a 4 year old

I found this just now, and this guy Hunter Hayes at 4 years old is amazing.

These songs are on other areas, but I feel I must keep all the family songs together:

Dad song – Do what you do do well boy

Mom song – Walk tall

Kitchen song – Singing in the kitchen

I dreamed about mama last night

I heard this song on a record that Eldon King had in Arkansas. I really loved it. So many points are so true to life. Hank was a tremendous songwriter. I also have a Gospel web site. If you want to check it out, go to:  http://countrygospelandbible.com/

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Friend Songs

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A stranger’s just a friend

This is one of my favorite love songs. Jim Reeves sang it so beautifully. This clip is from the movie: “Kimberley Jim.” “A warm smile can bring you true love, a warm heart can make it grow.” He said that he had a slogan that “A stranger is just a friend you haven’t met yet.” So that is why he liked it.

Two little boys

I heard this song on the radio in Rhodesia back in the 60′s. Rolf Harris, from Australia, had some interesting songs. This one really touched my heart when I first heard it. The comradeship between two guys. In the heat of the battle, the one risks his life to help his buddy. In my mind I see Greendale, Salisbury, where I grew up, playing with a guy by the name of Richard Dady.

One guy across the street from us was the exact same age as me, both born on the exact same day. He became a pilot, and his plane was shot down. His name was Christopher Barry Weimann.

He ain’t heavy, he’s my brother

I have often thought of that line, and the love of an older brother towards a younger weaker one.

You’ve got a friend

I have heard this song on the radio, and managed to find it on the web. The words in this song are very good.

Let me be a little kinder

The correct title of this song is: “Less of me.”

Let me be there

As I was re-posting Olivia Newton-John’s page, I feel this song fits on this page too. The words go like this: “Whenever you feel, you need a friend to lean on, here I am.”

Be kind to each other.

That song helped me so much in my marriage. It taught me to be kind to my wife. “Be kind to each other, so many are sad. Be kind to each other and make the world glad. Be a friend, be a brother, with a smile all aglow. Be kind to each other, where ever you go.” I couldn’t find it on the you tube, but I found it was written by John W. Peterson, if you want to try and find it. I had a record of a girl group from America singing it. I also have a Gospel web site. If you want to check it out, go to:  http://countrygospelandbible.com/

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Favourite love songs by Guy and Ralna

Posted on October 30, 2011 by Admin

I saw Guy and Ralna singing favourite love songs on the Lawrence Welk show in Canada in the 90′s. They were probably on TV in Rhodesia in the 50′s, but we didn’t have TV back then, so I can’t remember seeing them there. The first time I saw them singing together I thought it was so beautiful. Some songs I have heard them sing I have not found on the you tube. Ralna English reminds me of someone I knew when I was young, so that is another reason I am so fond of them. I’ve heard Ralna on the TV say that she now travels around singing gospel, so maybe you can book her for your church.

1. Let me be there

This favourite love song is so beautiful.

2. I can’t stop loving you – one of my favourite love songs by Guy and Ralna 

3. True love

The way Ralna looks at Guy is so fantastic. Such a look of love. True love. I first heard this favourite love song on a movie with Bing Crosby and Grace Kelly.

4. Let it be me

I heard this song when I was young by the Everly Brothers, but these folks sing so nice.

5. Footprints in the sand

That poem means a lot to me. I read it in a Billy Graham book when I was going through a hard time in my life. In fact I wrote my own song based on that idea, and it has been a tremendous blessing to me when it feels like all hope is gone. I have also read the book by the lady who wrote the poem. Now as I look on the internet I see that three people claim to have written it. The book I read was by Margaret.

6. The Orange Blossom Special

I first heard this song by Johnny Cash, but they do it good too!

7. Dream a little dream of me

I went to bed last night singing: “Sweet dreams ’til sunbeams find you.”

8. When I’m 64

The family were laughing at me last night when I was singing this song. I think this is one of the Beatles’ favourite love songs.

9. I saw the light

I also have a Gospel web site. If you want to check it out, go to:  http://countrygospelandbible.com/

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Bobby Bare

Posted on October 30, 2011 by Admin

500 miles

This was a big hit for Bobby Bare. The first song I had listed was Detroit City, but it got taken off the net.

Bobby Bare on the Streets of Baltimore

Here is another love song that is very touching and true to life. When two people marry, each have their own ideas and plans for their lives, which don’t always work out in harmony with each other.

Chicken every Sunday

In the later 60′s I bought an LP called “This I believe” and it was a tremendous blessing to me. So many good songs. This is one of them, and when I went out Gospel singing in 1970 I sang this song a lot.

Less of me

This song was also on the LP, and I saw this song change some people’s lives.

Singing in the kitchen

When we were in Canada the first time we had an LP record of ‘Singing in the kitchen.’ It was such a nice family feeling. My wife used to love the song on the record about ‘The Giving Tree.’

God bless America again

Here is a patriotic song, with some pictures of the Twin Towers at 9-11.

Just a closer walk with Thee

This is the very first song I ever sang in front of people. I was so nervous that I forgot most of the words.

I also have a Gospel web site. If you want to check it out, go to:  http://countrygospelandbible.com/

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Sad Love Songs

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Oh Lonesome Me

It is a sad love song, but it has such a nice beat, and such a nice tune. “Ev’rybody’s goin’ out an’ havin’ fun. I’m just a fool for stayin’ home an’ havin’ none.” I loved singing that song and it was one of my favorite love songs when I was young. This version is June Carter and Don Gibson.

Heartaches by the number by Ray Price

One guy was in the military where everything was done by numbers, so he wrote a song called: “Heartaches by the number,” which was a hit when I was young. It is such a swinging song, even though it is sad.

Things

Bobby Darin had a song called “Things.” There was a time when that song would make me so sad when I sang it to myself, and had no girlfriend.

A sad love song by Jim Reeves

I mentioned earlier that I was into Jim Reeves’ songs when I was a teenager, and some of them would make me very sad and blue. One particular song wasn’t good for me. It was called: ”A letter to my Heart.” It is about a guy singing to his heart, to forget the girl who didn’t want him. “If you won’t stop beating for her, then dear heart stop beating for me.” If someone doesn’t want us, we have to leave the past behind and press on to the future. Like they say “there are plenty more fish in the ocean.” I keep thinking of a story in the Bible where God tells the prophet Samuel to stop mourning over King Saul, and go and anoint a new king. So many country songs are about mourning over lost love. It is not good to cry over the past, we need to look forward to the future.

I’ve enjoyed as much of this as I can stand

One time when I was at college in Salisbury, I was dating a girl, then she told me her boyfriend was coming into town the next day. That shocked me. I thought I was her boyfriend. I went back to the residence, and was singing to console myself, when the others guys were all laughing. It was a song I heard Jim Reeves sing. It starts off very nice, “You look lovelier tonight than I remember, I’m so glad I got to see you once again.” Then it ends with, “I’ve enjoyed as much of this as I can stand.” Sometimes songs can help console a person.

I can’t stop loving you

Another song that is so real to me is, “I can’t stop loving you, it’s useless to say, so I’ll just live my life in dreams of yesterday.” Lots of singers have sung that song, but Ray Charles does it real good. I love the ladies singing that high harmony with him. “Those happy hours, that we once knew, though long ago, still make me blue.”

Bye Bye Love

Another sad song I used to sing a lot when I was a teenager was “Bye, bye love, bye, bye happiness, hello emptiness.” I heard it on an Everly Brothers record. I loved their harmony and their music. Someone lent my brother an LP where they were on a motor bike, with the guy on the back having a guitar slung around his back. It looked like those guys were living such an exciting life. All these images were fixed in my mind as a teenager. The world of music and singing seemed so exciting.

I also have a Gospel web site. If you want to check it out, go to:  http://countrygospelandbible.com/

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Favourite love songs by Tom Jones

Posted on October 30, 2011 by Admin

A lot of the favourite love songs by Tom Jones that I had on this page have been deleted from the internet. So we are left with a “skeleton staff!” When I was young I had his LP record of Delilah.

1. Green, green grass of home – my favourite love song by Tom Jones

Tom Jones sings some of my favourite love songs. I was away from home at college in Salisbury (Harare) when I first heard him sing: “Green, green grass of home.” That song captivated me then, and still does. It brings back all the memories of the old home town, the train station, the girl friend, the old Mama and old Papa, the old house, the old tree, that all tear at the old heart strings. I have heard other singers do that song, but to me Tom does it the best.

2. Detroit City

Recently on the radio I heard him sing “Detroit City,“ and he did it very well. It is interesting to see he is still singing. This is another one of my favourite love songs. I heard it originally by Bobby Bare.

3. She’s a Lady

According to folks on the radio, this was one of Tom Jones’ biggest sellers. I was shocked to discover just now that he has sold over 100 million recordings. I saw him on Larry King ‘live’ a few years back, and it was very interesting, but I can’t find it on the internet. He had a lot of trouble with the gossip magazines.

4. Say you’ll stay until tomorrow

Back in about 1980 I saw an ad on TV for this song and I bought the record for a friend.

I am sorry to hear that his wife has died.

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Slim Whitman – Favourite Love Songs

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Slim Whitman sings many of my favourite love songs. I love the way he has a yodel in his voice, and I also love that very high steel guitar sound.

1. White silver sands

2. Harbor lights

This song has a special meaning to me, and I love the beautiful video.

3. Blue bayou

I have often thought of this song, and longed to be by the sea. It is so tough to be “working till the sun don’t shine.” Slim Whitman sings all these songs so well.

4. Remember me, I’m the one who loves you

5. Red river valley

When I was a teenager, I loved this song so much, and longed to be in America.

6. Something beautiful to remember

7. Red sails in the sunset

8. Love letters in the sand

Another favourite love song that brings back so many memories.

9. I’m walking behind

I heard this one on the radio by Eddie Fisher.

10. I love you because

11. Anytime

I love the yodel in Slim Whitman’s voice.

12. In the misty moonlight

I used to love singing this favourite love song.

13. Blue eyes crying in the rain – One of my favourite love songs by Slim Whitman

One night we were driving in the rain on the Queen Elizabeth Way, between Burlington and Toronto (Canada), when I heard Slim Whitman on the radio singing, “In the twilight glow I see her, blue eyes crying in the rain.” I know Willie Nelson also sang that song, but I loved the Slim’s version. There is hope for the future in the song, “When we meet again up yonder, we’ll stroll hand in hand again.” I always associate that song with the Berlin wall, where families were separated.

14. Careless hands

15. Home on the range

16. Tumbling tumbleweeds

17. Paper roses

18. From a jack to a king

This was a hit when I was dating my first girl friend.

19. Rocking alone in an old rocking chair

Tears at my heart.

20. Weary and blue

I love all the old photos.

21. These are my mountains

22. Letter edged in black

Takes me back to my teenage years.

23. Down in the valley

I heard this song on a TV movie. An old western with Kirk Douglas. It had a haunting feel to it. Then he sings words I heard on the radio before that sounded so nice: “Roses love sunshine, violets love dew, angels in heaven know I love you.”

24. Galway bay

I lay in bed last night with this song on my heart.

25. Faded love

It is so sad too see love fade. Some people who used to love me, don’t want to know me anymore.

26. Think I’ll go somewhere and cry myself to sleep

27. Have I told you lately

I heard my mother sing this favourite love song when I was a little boy.

28. Hi Lili hi lo

I played in a band that used to do this song.

29. Mocking bird hill

Every song that Slim Whitman sings is beautiful.

30. Send me the pillow

31. Gonna find me a blue bird

32. Stranger on the shore

33. River of no return

34. South of the border

35. Just out of reach

36. I’ll hold you in my heart

37. It keeps right on a hurting

38. Top of the world

39. Nobody’s darling but mine

40. Una Paloma blanca

41. You are my sunshine

42. Tennessee yodel polka

He is singing with Virginia Lee. She was very popular in Africa. She did a lot of country type records. Heart wrenching stuff.

43. Danny Boy

A few years ago I heard the second verse of this song for the first time. I think it was Elvis singing it. It really wrenched my heart, because I love my son so much.

44. Sunrise

One day as I was watching the sunrise, I thought of this song as I praised the Lord for another day.

45. Who at my door is standing

46. He

47. Beyond the sunset

He does this gospel song so nicely.

48. What’s this world coming to

49. Today is mine

50. I’ll never pass this way again

51. Under his wings

52. How great thou art

53. It is no secret

54. I’ll fly away

55. God be with you

13. Whispering hope

14. A satisfied mind

15. Each step I take

56. He reached down his hand

57. Suppertime – Slim and Byron

58. I’m a pilgrim

59. Walk with God

60. I’ll walk with God

61. What kind of God do you think that you are

62. An evening prayer

63. Die son skyn weer more (Sunrise)

64. Fluist’rende hoop (Whispering hope)

I also have a Gospel web site. If you want to check it out, go to:  http://countrygospelandbible.com/

 

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Jimmie Davis

Posted on October 30, 2011 by Admin

1. Jimmie Davis – You are my sunshine

I have sung many times at senior citizen homes, and one of the favorite love songs they always want is: “You are my sunshine, my only sunshine.” The chorus of the song is so nice, but unfortunately the verses are very sad. I guess Jimmie Davis wrote a lot of songs. I heard on the radio once that he gave Colonel Tom Parker the ‘Colonel’ title when he was governor of Louisiana.

2. With Dottie Rambo – Nobody’s darling  and  You are my sunshine

I seem to recall reading somewhere that Dottie Rambo was signed to Jimmie Davis’ record company in the old days.

3. There’s a new moon over my shoulder

4. Suppertime – Porter Wagoner show

5. The three rusty nails

Back in the 70′s I sang at a high school, and a student lent me a record of Jimmie Davis singing a song called: ‘The three nails.’ I call it ‘The three rusty nails.’ That song is so powerful. When I was learning to sing the song I would stand in the bathroom, because the acoustics were better there, and I would sing that song over and over again. The tears would be streaming down my cheeks, as I felt for Jesus suffering on the cross for my sins. No other song had ever done that to me. I remember recording that song on my first cassette tape, and someone told me once that he played that tape for another guy and he gave his heart to the Lord. When we first visited America, I saw that J.D.Sumner and and Stamps Quartet also had that song on one of their records.

6. I was there when it happened

7. Dear Jesus abide with me

8. I’ve got a mansion

9. I won’t have to cross Jordan alone

10. Someone to care

11. Lord I’m coming home

12. At the crossing

13. I’ve been changed

14. Do you ever think to pray

15. The three nails

Here is a “live” version of the song.

16. At Sundown

I had an LP of Jimmie Davis when I was in Africa where he sang a song, “At sundown, I’m going home, at sundown, no more to roam. Sweet voices are calling, calling me, and I’m going home at sundown.” About an old man who was going home for the last time. When we were in Canada the first time, we had a painting on the wall of Canadian geese flying at sunset across a field. At that time I was so homesick for Africa. I would stand in front of that painting and sing the Sundown song, and get so sad and blue. The heart is a strange thing. It is different from the mind. Even now while I am in Canada again, I long for Africa. I know there is lots of killing there, but my heart still longs for the good old days that I experienced when I was young.

I also have a Gospel web site. If you want to check it out, go to:  http://countrygospelandbible.com/

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