Don Williams
Don Williams ( born May 27, 1939 in Floydada, Texas) is an American country singer.
Don Williams began playing guitar as a child. With Lofton Kline and Susan Taylor 1964, he founded the band Pozo Seco Singers - which played a mixture of folk and pop. A year later they had a first hit with Time. After a few more smaller successes, the group split up in 1971.
Career
Don Williams initially returned to Texas. Susan Taylor, meanwhile, tried a solo career, and Williams went to Nashville to assist in the production of their first album. For a time he worked for Jack Clement, the producer of Susan Taylor, as a songwriter. In 1973 he played at the label an album a Don Williams Volume I. A recently published first single sold poorly, but already his second, The Shelter Of Your Eyes, was able to place in the country hit parade. In 1975 he reached position with We Should Be Together 5
The tall Texan - the " Gentle Giant " - had made a breakthrough. With his warm, deep voice, he opened up a fan base that went far beyond the country music scene. Few sold in the seventies more records than he. Don Williams filled the gap that had torn the early death of Jim Reeves. With songs like Amanda (1973 ), Some Broken Hearts Never Mend (1977 ), Tulsa Time (1978 ) or I Believe In You (1980 ) he conquered top positions in the charts worldwide. He was particularly effective in England, where in 1978 the album topped bestseller lists and 1976 with I Recall A Gipsy Woman had a hit single (in the USA Tommy Cash was successful with this song ). In 1978, he won the CMA Award Country Vocalist Of The Year. In the same year he met with Eric Clapton, who described himself as Don Williams fan on at a concert. Before the show, Williams played the blues man in front of the recently written by Danny Flowers Title Tulsa Time and Clapton was so excited that they recorded the song a little later in the studio. Tulsa Time reached the top position of the U.S. country charts and was eventually chosen as the Single of the Year. Clapton was in 1980 with his own interpretation of the title also successful. In 1982 the album Listen To The Radio with the eponymous single, which could prove # 3 on the country charts in appearance and advanced over the years to an often played radio anthem.
Williams winning streak continued in the eighties. Due to increased back problems and a subsequent operation ( 1987), he moved more and more to its location near Nashville Ranch back, but he still occurs on at various Country Events in the USA. He had his last Hiterfolg 1992 Lord Have Mercy On A Country Boy. Overall in Don Williams was much more successful than the U.S. in the pop charts in England and in Germany. Although astonishing 17 number one hits on the Billboard go country charts on his account, only the Title I Believe In You (1980 ) could in the U.S. pop charts place ( peak position: 24).
2004 appeared the first time a concert film by Don Williams. The DVD entitled " Into Africa " shows a recorded concert in Zimbabwe in 1997, in which Williams presents 16 of his greatest hits. The fact that the country singer in Africa has a wide fan base, confirms the great delight of the audience on his first visit to their country.
On June 19, 2012 " And so it goes " Don Williams' first studio album was released worldwide, after 8 years.
Discography (selection)
Albums
Compilations
Singles
The Pozo - Seco Singers albums
Pozo Seco albums
- 2004 - Into Africa