It Takes People Like You
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It Takes People Like You to Make People Like Me (or simply It Takes People Like You) is an album by Buck Owens
and his Buckaroos
, released in 1968.
It was re-released on CD in 1997 by Sundazed Records
with two bonus tracks, including the mono
single version of the title track.
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...
and his Buckaroos
The Buckaroos
The Buckaroos were a Grammy-winning band led by Buck Owens in the 1960s and early '70s, who were heavily involved in the development and presentation of the "Bakersfield Sound." Their peak of success was from 1965-1970. In 2005, CMT named the Buckaroos No...
, released in 1968.
It was re-released on CD in 1997 by Sundazed Records
Sundazed Records
Sundazed Records is a record label based in Coxsackie, in the Catskills of New York. It specializes in obscure and rare recordings from the 1950s to the 1970s.Label founders Bob Irwin and his wife Mary started the label in 1989...
with two bonus tracks, including the mono
Monaural
Monaural or monophonic sound reproduction is single-channel. Typically there is only one microphone, one loudspeaker, or channels are fed from a common signal path...
single version of the title track.
Track listing
All songs by Buck Owens unless otherwise noted.- "It Takes People Like You (To Make People Like Me)" – 2:01
- "The Way That I Love You" – 2:35
- "We Were Made for Each Other" – 2:17
- "That's How I Measure My Love for You" (Owens, Don RichDon RichDonald Eugene Ulrich, best known by the stage name Don Rich was a country musician who helped develop the Bakersfield sound in the early 1960s. He was a noted guitarist and fiddler, and a member of the Buckaroos, the backing band of country singer Buck Owens.-Biography:Donald Eugene Ulrich was...
) – 2:41 - "If I Knew" (Ed King, Owens) – 2:33
- "I'm Gonna Live It Up" (Owens, Rich) – 2:13
- "Where Does the Good Times Go" – 2:18
- "You Left Her Lonely Too Long" – 2:55
- "Let the World Keep on a Turnin'" – 2:06
- "I've Got It Bad for You" (Owens, Rich) – 2:01
- "Long, Long Ago" – 2:12
- "Heartbreak Mountain" – 2:09
- 1995 bonus tracks:
- "It Takes People Like You (To Make People Like Me)" – 2:01
- "Where Does the Good Times Go" – 2:17
Personnel
- Buck Owens – vocals, 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...
, harmony vocals - Don RichDon RichDonald Eugene Ulrich, best known by the stage name Don Rich was a country musician who helped develop the Bakersfield sound in the early 1960s. He was a noted guitarist and fiddler, and a member of the Buckaroos, the backing band of country singer Buck Owens.-Biography:Donald Eugene Ulrich was...
– guitar, 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...
, harmony vocals, National Steel guitarNational Reso-Phonic GuitarsNational Reso-Phonic Guitars is a manufacturer of resonator guitars and other resonator instruments including mandolins, ukuleles and 12 string guitars.The company was formed in 1989 by Don Young and McGregor Gaines, in a Californian garage... - Doyle HollyDoyle HollyDoyle Floyd Hendricks, known by the stage name Doyle Holly was an American musician best known as the bass guitar player of the country music band Buck Owens and the Buckaroos and for his solo hit songs "Queen Of The Silver Dollar" and "Lila". Holly's contributions on bass guitar and rhythm guitar...
– guitar, bass - Tom BrumleyTom BrumleyTom Brumley was an American steel guitarist who played with Buck Owens and the Buckaroos in the 1960s, contributing to the group's "Bakersfield sound", and later spent a decade with Rick Nelson.-Biography:...
– pedal steel guitarPedal steel guitarThe pedal steel guitar is a type of electric guitar that uses a metal bar to "fret" or shorten the length of the strings, rather than fingers on strings as with a conventional guitar. Unlike other types of steel guitar, it also uses pedals and knee levers to affect the pitch, hence the name "pedal"... - Jimmy Bryant – guitar
- Willie Cantu – drumsDrum kitA drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
, tambourine - Bert Dodson – guitar, bass
- Donald Frost – bass
- Bob Morris – bass
- Jelly Sanders – guitar, fiddle
- Wayne Wilson – guitar