Connie in the Country
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Connie in the Country is the seventh studio album recorded by American country
artist, Connie Smith
. The recording was released in February 1967 as a budget album on RCA Camden Records
and was produced by Bob Ferguson
.
's "World of Forgotten People," Buck Owens
's "Foolin' Around" and "Love's Gonna Live Here
," and "I Overlooked an Orchid (While Searching for a Rose)." The album was issued on a 12-inch vinyl LP record
, with five songs on each side of the record. The album did not receive any album reviews or ratings.
The album Connie in the Country was one of several albums of original new product by popular country stars released by RCA on its budget-line RCA Camden (which usually was just a line for repackaging older material) to encourage country fans to start collecting the label's currently popular artists. Smith's other albums on the Camden label are repackaged material from her RCA Victor albums.
The album's only single, "Cry, Cry, Cry" (not to be confused with Johnny Cash
's 1955 hit of the same name) became a major hit on Billboard Magazines Hot Country Songs
chart, reaching #20, becoming Smith's first single to peak outside of the country Top 10.
Country music
Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...
artist, Connie Smith
Connie Smith
Connie Smith is an American country music artist. She began her career in 1963 after winning a local talent contest near Columbus, Ohio, which attracted the attention of country songwriter Bill Anderson...
. The recording was released in February 1967 as a budget album on RCA Camden Records
RCA Camden
RCA Camden was a budget record label of recordings, first introduced by RCA Victor.-History:The label was named after Camden, New Jersey, original home to the Victor Talking Machine Company, later RCA Records. It specialized in reissuing historic classical and popular recordings from the RCA catalog...
and was produced by Bob Ferguson
Bob Ferguson (music)
Robert Bruce "Bob" Ferguson Sr was an American songwriter, record producer who was instrumental in establishing Nashville, Tennessee as a center of country music; movie producer, and Choctaw Indian historian. Ferguson wrote the bestselling songs "On the Wings of a Dove" and "The Carroll County...
.
Background
Connie in the Country contained ten tracks. The album was a showcase of unreleased material Smith has recorded in the RCA studios between August 22 and August 23, 1966. The album included cover versions of Loretta LynnLoretta Lynn
Loretta Lynn is an American country music singer-songwriter, author and philanthropist. Born in Butcher Hollow, Kentucky to a coal miner father, Lynn married at 13 years old, was a mother soon after, and moved to Washington with her husband, Oliver Lynn. Their marriage was sometimes tumultuous; he...
's "World of Forgotten People," Buck Owens
Buck Owens
Alvis Edgar Owens, Jr. , better known as Buck Owens, was an American singer and guitarist who had 21 No. 1 hits on the Billboard country music charts with his band, the Buckaroos...
's "Foolin' Around" and "Love's Gonna Live Here
Love's Gonna Live Here
"Love's Gonna Live Here" is a 1963 single by Buck Owens, who also wrote the song. The single would be Buck Owens' second number one on the country charts spending sixteen weeks at the top spot and a total of thirty weeks on the chart.-Chart performance:...
," and "I Overlooked an Orchid (While Searching for a Rose)." The album was issued on a 12-inch vinyl LP record
LP record
The LP, or long-playing microgroove record, is a format for phonograph records, an analog sound storage medium. Introduced by Columbia Records in 1948, it was soon adopted as a new standard by the entire record industry...
, with five songs on each side of the record. The album did not receive any album reviews or ratings.
The album Connie in the Country was one of several albums of original new product by popular country stars released by RCA on its budget-line RCA Camden (which usually was just a line for repackaging older material) to encourage country fans to start collecting the label's currently popular artists. Smith's other albums on the Camden label are repackaged material from her RCA Victor albums.
The album's only single, "Cry, Cry, Cry" (not to be confused with Johnny Cash
Johnny Cash
John R. "Johnny" Cash was an American singer-songwriter, actor, and author, who has been called one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century...
's 1955 hit of the same name) became a major hit on Billboard Magazines Hot Country Songs
Hot Country Songs
Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States.This 60-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly mostly by airplay and occasionally commercial sales...
chart, reaching #20, becoming Smith's first single to peak outside of the country Top 10.
Side one
- "Cry, Cry, Cry" – (Shirley Wood)
- "Foolin' Around" – (Harlan HowardHarlan HowardHarlan Perry Howard was a prolific American songwriter, principally in country music. In a career spanning six decades, Howard wrote a large number of popular and enduring songs, recorded by a variety of different artists...
, Buck OwensBuck OwensAlvis Edgar Owens, Jr. , better known as Buck Owens, was an American singer and guitarist who had 21 No. 1 hits on the Billboard country music charts with his band, the Buckaroos...
) - "World of Forgotten People" – (Loretta LynnLoretta LynnLoretta Lynn is an American country music singer-songwriter, author and philanthropist. Born in Butcher Hollow, Kentucky to a coal miner father, Lynn married at 13 years old, was a mother soon after, and moved to Washington with her husband, Oliver Lynn. Their marriage was sometimes tumultuous; he...
) - "I'm Little But I'm Loud" – (Boudleaux Bryant, Jimmy Dickens)
- "SlowlySlowly (Webb Pierce song)Slowly is a 1954 song by Webb Pierce, written by Pierce and Nashville songwriter Tommy Hill . The song was one of Pierce's more successful singles, spending seventeen weeks at the top of the Country and Western Best Sellers lists and a total of thirty-six weeks in the chart.Beyond its success as a...
" – (Tommy Hill, Webb PierceWebb PierceWebb Michael Pierce was one of the most popular American honky tonk vocalists of the 1950s, charting more number one hits than any other country artist during the decade. His biggest hit was "In The Jailhouse Now," which charted for 37 weeks in 1955, 21 of them at number one...
)
Side two
- "I Overlooked an Orchid (While Searching for a Rose)I Overlooked an Orchid"I Overlooked an Orchid" is a 1974 single written by Carl Smith, Carl Story, and Shirly Lyn and recorded by Mickey Gilley. "I Overlooked an Orchid" would be Mickey Gilley's second country hit and second number one on the country chart. The single would stay at number one for a single week and spend...
" – (Shirley Lyn, Carl SmithCarl Smith (country musician)Carl Milton Smith was an American country music singer. Known as "Mister Country," Smith was the husband of June Carter and Goldie Hill, the drinking companion of Johnny Cash, and the father of Carlene Carter...
, Carl StoryCarl StoryCarl Story was an influential bluegrass musician and leader of his band the "Rambling Mountaineers". He was dubbed "The Father of Bluegrass Gospel Music" by the governor of Oklahoma.-Biography:...
) - "A-Sleepin' at the Foot of the Bed" – (Luther Patrick, Happy Wilson)
- "You Ain't Woman Enough (To Take My Man)" – (Lynn)
- "Y'all Come Home" – (Arlie Duff)
- "Love's Gonna Live HereLove's Gonna Live Here"Love's Gonna Live Here" is a 1963 single by Buck Owens, who also wrote the song. The single would be Buck Owens' second number one on the country charts spending sixteen weeks at the top spot and a total of thirty weeks on the chart.-Chart performance:...
" – (Owens)
Personnel
- Anita CarterAnita CarterIna Anita Carter , the youngest daughter of Ezra and Mother Maybelle Carter, was a versatile American singer who experimented with several different types of music and played stand-up bass with her sisters Helen Carter and June Carter Cash as The Carter Sisters...
– background vocals - Dorothy Dillard – background vocals
- Dolores Edgin – background vocals
- Buddy HarmanBuddy HarmanBuddy Harman was an American session musician.-Career:Born in Nashville, Tennessee, he played drums on over 18,000 sessions for artists such as Elvis Presley, Patsy Cline, Dolly Parton, Brenda Lee, Tammy Wynette, Loretta Lynn, Roy Orbison, Connie Francis, Chet Atkins, Marty Robbins, Roger Miller,...
– drums - Walter HaynesWalter HaynesWalter Haynes was an American steel guitarist and music producer who worked with such artists as Jimmy Dickens, Del Reeves, The Everly Brothers and Jeanne Pruett. He also co-wrote a number of songs including "Girl on the Billboard" - a song that became a #1 hit for Del Reeves in 1965. Haynes was a...
– bass guitarBass guitarThe bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
, guitar - Priscilla Hubbard – background vocals
- Ron Huskey – bassBass (instrument)Bass describes musical instruments that produce tones in the low-pitched range. They belong to different families of instruments and can cover a wide range of musical roles...
- Charles Justice – fiddleFiddleThe term fiddle may refer to any bowed string musical instrument, most often the violin. It is also a colloquial term for the instrument used by players in all genres, including classical music...
- Leonard Miller – drums
- Weldon Myrick – steel guitarSteel guitarSteel guitar is a type of guitar or the method of playing the instrument. Developed in Hawaii in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a steel guitar is usually positioned horizontally; strings are plucked with one hand, while the other hand changes the pitch of one or more strings with the use...
- Louis Nunley – background vocals
- Dean Porter – guitarGuitarThe guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
- Hargus "Pig" Robbins – pianoPianoThe piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It is one of the most popular instruments in the world. Widely used in classical and jazz music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal...
- Connie Smith – lead vocals
- Velma Smith – guitar
- William Wright – background vocals
Sales chart positions
Singles| Year | Song | Chart positions |
|---|---|---|
| US Country Hot Country Songs Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States.This 60-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly mostly by airplay and occasionally commercial sales... |
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| 1968 | "Cry, Cry, Cry" | 20 |