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"With Pen in Hand" is a song written by Bobby Goldsboro and first released on his March 1968 album, Honey. [1] The song's lyrics address the subjects of divorce and losing custody of one's child, and are sung from the perspective of the parent who expects to be losing custody of their child, as they make a final plea to their spouse to reconcile before the divorce is finalized.
Johnny Darrell (July 23, 1940 [1] – October 7, 1997) [2] was an American country music artist. Darrell was born in Hopewell, Alabama but grew up in Marietta, Georgia. [3] After a stint in the army, he moved to Nashville and began managing a Holiday Inn near Music Row, when he was discovered by Kelso Herstin, a producer working for United Artists, on the recommendation of Bobby Bare. [1]
One of Goldsboro's compositions, "With Pen in Hand", was recorded by several artists, including a Grammy-nominated pop version by Vikki Carr that reached the Hot 100's top 40 in 1969; Johnny Darrell had taken the song to No. 3 on the U.S. country chart a year earlier. [9] In 1970, Della Reese included a cover on her album Black Is Beautiful.
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Carr followed with two US Top 40 hits: 1968's "The Lesson" and 1969's "With Pen in Hand". Around this time, Dean Martin called her "the best girl singer in the business". In total, Carr had 10 singles and 13 albums that made the US pop charts. Vikki Carr in 1968. In 1968, Carr taped six specials for London Weekend TV.
Jerry Leon Wallace (December 15, 1928 [1] – May 5, 2008) [2] was an American country and pop singer. Between 1958 and 1964, Wallace charted nine hits on the Billboard Hot 100, including the No. 8 "Primrose Lane" that was later used as the theme song for the television series The Smith Family.
A graphic tablet. A graphics tablet (also known as a digitizer, digital graphic tablet, pen tablet, drawing tablet, external drawing pad or digital art board) is a computer input device that enables a user to hand draw or paint images, animations and graphics, with a special pen-like stylus, similar to the way a person draws pictures with a pencil and paper by hand.
Billy Vera (born William Patrick McCord; [1] May 28, 1944) is an American singer, songwriter, actor, author, and music historian.He has been a singer and songwriter since the 1960s, his most successful record being "At This Moment", a US number 1 hit in 1987.