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The All American Boy" is a 1958 talking blues song written by Orville Lunsford and sung by Bobby Bare, but credited by Fraternity Records to Bill Parsons, [1] with songwriting credit to Bill Parsons and Orville Lunsford. [2] While Bare was in the army, Parsons lip synced the record on television.
Instead of using Parsons' later version, the record company, Fraternity Records, decided to go with Bare's original demo. [2] The record reached No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100, but Fraternity erroneously credited Bill Parsons on the label. [6] [7] The same track, with the same billing error, peaked at No. 22 in the UK Singles Chart in April ...
A year later came the Jimmy Dorsey #2 charting instrumental "So Rare", the famous bandleader's final hit before his death. 1959 saw another big hit, Bill Parsons' "The All American Boy", which also peaked at #2 on the Billboard pop charts. [2] Parsons was a friend of country singer Bobby Bare and it was actually Bare's voice heard on the hit ...
Gram Parsons' version of the song has been featured on the HBO series The Wire, which is set in Baltimore. [2] Pitchfork said, "Gram Parsons may have made it famous, but "Streets of Baltimore" belongs to Bobby Bare. From his album of the same name, it is a relic of Bare's first stint on the RCA Victor label, widely regarded to be his breakout ...
In addition to Collins, the film is dedicated to Brian Huggins, who played scrap metal picker Shitty Bill in the television series, series regular Bill Parsons, who played one of the Sunnyvale Trailer Park residents, and country/folk singer Rita MacNeil, who appeared in a Season 4 episode. Clattenburg had written a part for Huggins in the film ...
Ian Dunlop and Mickey Gauvin, formerly of Gram Parsons' International Submarine Band (ISB), founded the original Flying Burrito Brothers and named it after Parsons informed them of his new country focus. This incarnation of the band never recorded as such, and after heading East allowed Gram Parsons to take the name. [4]
This later became the basis for the charts found in subsequent radio/music publications such as Radio & Records and many Trade/Tip Sheeets (Gavin, FMQB etc.). user: cpmgrp (source: former jock, MD, PD in radio and R&R 3/17/2013). — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cpmgrp (talk • contribs) 23:42, 17 March 2013 (UTC)
From 1978 to 1980, Stafford was married to singer-songwriter Bobbie Gentry and they have a son. [ 5 ] [ 9 ] Stafford was later married to Ann Britt Stafford for 24 years; she was a co-owner of the Jim Stafford Theatre in Branson until December 2013.