On the Bandstand
Encyclopedia
On the Bandstand is an album by American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 country music
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 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...

, released in 1963. It peaked at Number 2 on the Billboard
Billboard charts
The Billboard charts tabulate the relative weekly popularity of songs or albums in the United States. The results are published in Billboard magazine...

 Country Albums charts.

The CD re-issue in 1995 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...

 includes "Sweethearts in Heaven" and "We're the Talk of the Town" a 1963 Top 20 duet single Owens recorded with Rose Maddox
Rose Maddox
Roselea Maddox , better known as Rose Maddox, was an American country singer-songwriter and fiddle player.Born in Boaz, Alabama, Maddox was the singer in the Maddox Brothers and Rose....

.

Track listing

  1. "Sawmill" (Mel Tillis
    Mel Tillis
    Lonnie Melvin Tillis , known professionally as Mel Tillis, is an American country music singer. Although he recorded songs since the late 1950s, his biggest success occurred in the 1970s, with a long list of Top 10 hits....

    , Horace Whatley) – 2:25
  2. "King of Fools" (Buck Owens, Red Simpson
    Red Simpson
    Red Simpson is an American country singer-songwriter best known for his trucker-themed songs.-Biography:Red Simpson was raised in Bakersfield, California, the youngest of a dozen children...

    ) – 2:34
  3. "Sally Was a Good Old Girl" (Harlan Howard
    Harlan Howard
    Harlan 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...

    ) – 2:22
  4. "I Can't Stop My Lovin' You" (Owens, Don Rich
    Don Rich
    Donald 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...

    ) – 2:46
  5. "Orange Blossom Special
    Orange Blossom Special (song)
    The fiddle tune "Orange Blossom Special", about the passenger train of the same name, was written by Ervin T. Rouse in 1938. The original recording was created by Ervin and Gordon Rouse in 1939. It is considered the best known fiddle tune of the twentieth century and is often called simply The...

    " (Ervin Rouse) – 2:08
  6. "Cotton Fields" (Leadbelly
    Leadbelly
    Huddie William Ledbetter was an iconic American folk and blues musician, notable for his strong vocals, his virtuosity on the twelve-string guitar, and the songbook of folk standards he introduced....

    ) – 2:13
  7. "Kickin' Our Hearts Around" (Wanda Jackson
    Wanda Jackson
    Wanda Lavonne Jackson is an American singer, songwriter, pianist and guitarist who had success in the mid-1950s and 60s as one of the first popular female rockabilly singers and a pioneering rock and roll artist...

    ) – 2:36
  8. "Touch Me" (Willie Nelson
    Willie Nelson
    Willie Hugh Nelson is an American country music singer-songwriter, as well as an author, poet, actor, and activist. The critical success of the album Shotgun Willie , combined with the critical and commercial success of Red Headed Stranger and Stardust , made Nelson one of the most recognized...

    ) – 3:08
  9. "Sweethearts in Heaven" (Owens) – 2:57
  10. "Release Me
    Release Me (1946 song)
    "Release Me" is a popular song written by Eddie Miller, Robert Yount, and James Pebworth , published in 1946.Miller wrote the song in 1946 but could not get anyone to record it for years, so he recorded it himself in 1953. Shortly afterward it was covered by Jimmy Heap, and with even better success...

    " (Eddie Miller
    Eddie Miller (songwriter)
    Edward Monroe "Eddie" Miller was an American songwriter, in the country music genre.He was born in Camargo, Oklahoma and worked as a locomotive engineer before becoming a songwriter...

    , Dub Williams, Robert Yount) – 2:36
  11. "One Way Love" (Owens) – 2:26
  12. "Diggy Liggy Lo
    Diggy Liggy Lo
    "Diggy Liggy Lo" is a single by American country music duo Rusty & Doug. Released in 1961, their version peaked at number 14 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart. Doug Kershaw, one half of the duo, released a solo version of the song in 1969 that peaked at number 70 on the Billboard Hot...

    " (John D. Loudermilk
    John D. Loudermilk
    John D. Loudermilk is an American singer and songwriter.-Biography:Born in Durham, North Carolina, Loudermilk grew up in a family who were members of the Salvation Army faith and was influenced by the church singing. His cousins Ira and Charlie Loudermilk were known professionally as the Louvin...

    ) – 2:16
    1995 reissue bonus tracks:
  13. "Sweethearts in Heaven" (Owens) – 2:51
  14. "We're the Talk of the Town" (Owens, Rollie Weber) – 2:06

Personnel

  • Buck Owens – guitar, vocals
  • Don Rich
    Don Rich
    Donald 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, fiddle
  • Ralph Mooney – pedal steel guitar
  • Jim Pierce – piano
  • Jelly Sanders – fiddle, guitar
  • Wayne Stone – drums
  • Kenny Pierce – bass
  • John Maddox – guitar
  • Rose Maddox – vocals
  • Bobby Austin – bass
  • George French – piano
  • Jay McDonald – pedal steel guitar
  • Ken Presley – drums
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