Skeeter Davis expanded

[rick]

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[Partridge]

I have my copy. It's a great reissue, and as a personal bonus, my name is in the Thank You credits.

[erik]

And I believe it was mentioned once that Skeeter knew about Linda before Linda came for her first visit to Music City in 1969.

Just a query re. Skeeter: I may be remembering wrong, but I think Skeeter also had a hit with "Am I That Easy To Forget?" (which Debbie Reynolds also hit with in 1960, as did Engelbert Humperdinck in 1968).

[Partridge]

Yes, Skeeter Davis had a country hit with that song in early 1960.

Skeeter Davis was a country singer who listened to and was influenced by pop/rock music and singer-songwriters like Joni Mitchell. When the Byrds played the Opry in 1968, they got the cold shoulder from most folks there, but Skeeter Davis welcomed them.

I doubt it is coincidence that Linda Ronstadt recorded the obscure song We Need A Lot More Of Jesus for her first solo album in 1969, and a few months later Skeeter included the song on her album It's Hard to Be A Woman.

[sliderocker]

I'll be placing an order for the album next week. There are a couple of songs I've wanted that she did that I've wanted for a long time. One is on youtube, "Face of a Clown," which was written by Skeeter's sister, Carolyn Pennick. I don't know how this song didn't become a hit on the pop charts. It's gorgeous. The other is "On and On and On," a song that was on an old RCA budget album my mom had that was as far as I could tell, never reissued on any other album in vinyl or CD form. And believe me, I searched. I considered it a lost song, thinking maybe RCA had lost the tapes for the recording of the song. I wanted a pristine copy as it was another gorgeous song Skeeter did. Everything else on that album is worth having just because of Skeeter's beautiful pop-country voice but those two songs are a bonus for me.