RE: Mandy B/Don't Forget
OK folks. This turns out to be too easy!
"Don't Forget to Cry" was a May '64 single recorded for WB by those
obscure singers of Bryants' songs, the Everly Brothers. It's readily
available on the 2-disc Walk Right Back Warner Brothers Best of... Glad to
be of assistance.
Barry M.
*Someone* here has to know who did the Boudleaux and Felice song
("Don't Forget To Cry"). ... That means we've managed to figure out the
sourcesfor all of her obscure covers, 'cept for that damn Boudleaux and
Felice tune. I thought it might be easy to track that one down, but then
I took
a look in the BMI on-line database at all the songs written by the Bryants
-- good god! I knew the Bryants were pretty damn prolific, but they were
songwriting machines!--don
Re: Mandy B/Don't Forget
OK folks. This turns out to be too easy! "Don't Forget to Cry" was a May '64 single recorded for WB by those obscure singers of Bryants' songs, the Everly Brothers. It's readily available on the 2-disc Walk Right Back Warner Brothers Best of... Glad to be of assistance. Barry M. Geez, you all didn't know that? That's common knowledge. OK, I'm jerking your chains, but I was curious about that tune, "Trademark," again on the Mandy Barnett record. Jon identified it with some country artist, I can't recall who, but the co-writer is listed as Porter Wagoner (sp?). Did Porter write it, and someone else make a hit out of it? Also, I can't get over how, to me, two of the best tunes on the record, "Who (Who Will It Be)" and "The Whispering Wind (Blows on By)" are relatively new songs, apparently, but seem to come straight from the lush, big-band pop past. Does anyone have a handle on the writers, Russell Brown and Pat McLaughlin? Great songs, and the only defect is that tendency to put bothersome parentheticals in the song titles. -- Terry Smith
RE: Mandy B/Don't Forget
...I was curious about that tune, "Trademark," again on the Mandy Barnett record. Jon identified it with some country artist, I can't recall who, but the co-writer is listed as Porter Wagoner (sp?). Did Porter write it, and someone else make a hit out of it? Yup. "Trademark" was a #2 for Carl Smith in 1953, more than a year before Porter hit the Top 10 his own self (with "Company's Comin'"). If Porter recorded it himself, it didn't make the Top 40. Jon Weisberger, Kenton County, KY [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.fuse.net/jonweisberger
