Charles (Charlie) Rich (December 14, 1932 – July 25, 1995) was an American … Read Full Bio ↴Charles (Charlie) Rich (December 14, 1932 – July 25, 1995) was an American country music singer and musician. His eclectic-style of music was often hard to classify in a single genre, encompassing in the rockabilly, jazz, blues, country, and gospel genres.
In the latter part of his life, Rich acquired the nickname The Silver Fox. He is perhaps best remembered for a pair of 1973 hits, "Behind Closed Doors" and "The Most Beautiful Girl". "The Most Beautiful Girl" topped the U.S. country singles charts, as well as the pop singles charts and earned him two Grammy Awards.
Though he resided in Benton, Arkansas, from around 1960 to 1981, Rich was born in Colt, Arkansas, to rural cotton farmers. His professional musical career began while he was in the U.S. Air Force in the early 1950s. His first musical group, the Velvetones, played jazz and blues and featured his fiancée, Margaret Ann, on lead vocals. Rich left the military in 1955 and tried to farm five acres in Tennessee. He also began performing in clubs around the Memphis area, playing both jazz and R&B. It was during these hard times that he began writing his own material.
Rich was a session musician for Judd Records, owned by Judd Phillips, the brother of Sun Records founder Sam Phillips. After recording some demos for Sam Phillips at Sun Records that Phillips didn't find commercial enough, and too jazzy, legend has it that he was given a stack of Jerry Lee Lewis records and told: "come back when you get that bad." A September 6, 2010 NPR airing of 1992 interview with Fresh Air host Terry Gross Charlie Rich tells the story himself of Bill Justis telling Rich's wife those exact words. In 1958, Rich became a regular session musician for Sun Records playing on records by Lewis, Johnny Cash, Bill Justis, Warren Smith, Billy Lee Riley, Carl Mann, and Ray Smith. He also wrote songs for Lewis, Cash, and others.
His third single for the Sun subsidiary, Phillips International Records, was the 1960 Top 30 hit, "Lonely Weekends," noted for its Presley-like vocals. None of his seven follow-up singles was a success, though several of the songs became staples in his live set, including "Who Will the Next Fool Be," "Sittin' and Thinkin'," and "No Headstone on My Grave." These songs were often recorded by others to varying degrees of success, such as the Bobby Bland version of "Who Will the Next Fool Be."
Rich's career stalled, and he left the struggling Sun label in 1963, signing with a subsidiary of RCA Records, Groove. His first single for Groove, "Big Boss Man," was a minor hit, but again his Chet Atkins-produced follow-ups all stiffed. Rich moved to Smash Records early in 1965. Rich's new producer, Jerry Kennedy, encouraged the pianist to emphasize his country and rock & roll leanings, although Rich considered himself a jazz pianist and had not paid much attention to country music since his childhood. The first single for Smash was "Mohair Sam," an R&B-inflected novelty-rock number, and it became a Top 30 pop hit. Unfortunately again for Rich, none of his follow-up singles were successful. Rich was forced to change labels, moving over to Hi Records, where he recorded blue-eyed soul music and straight country, but none of his singles made a dent on the country or pop charts. One Hi Records track Love Is After Me from 1966 belatedly became a white soul favourite in the early 1970s.
Despite his lack of consistent commercial success, Epic Records signed Rich in 1967, mainly on the recommendation of producer Billy Sherrill. Sherrill helped Rich refashion himself as a Nashville Sound balladeer during an era when old rock n' rollers like Jerry Lee Lewis and Conway Twitty were finding a new musical home in the country and western format. This new "Countrypolitan" Rich sound paid off in the summer of 1972, when "I Take It on Home" went to number six in the country charts. The title track from his 1973 album, Behind Closed Doors, became a number one hit early in that year, crossing over into the Top 20 on the pop charts. This time his follow-up did not disappoint, as "The Most Beautiful Girl" spent three weeks at the top of the country charts and two weeks at the top of the pop charts. Now that he was established as a country music star, Behind Closed Doors won three awards from the Country Music Association that year: Best Male Vocalist, Album of the Year, and Single of the Year. The album was also certified gold. Rich won a Grammy Award for Best Male Country Vocal Performance, and he took home four ACM awards. One of RCA's several resident songwriters, Marvin Walters, co-wrote for three years with Charlie producing four recordings including a very popular "Set Me Free".
After "The Most Beautiful Girl", number one hits came quickly, as five songs topped the country charts in 1974 and crossed over to the pop charts. The songs were "There Won't Be Anymore" (Pop No. 18), "A Very Special Love Song" (Pop No. 11), "I Don't See Me In Your Eyes Anymore" (Pop No. 47), "I Love My Friend" (Pop No. 24), and "She Called Me Baby" (Pop No. 47). Both RCA and Mercury (Smash was a subsidiary of Mercury which was absorbed into the main company in 1970) re-released his previously recorded material from the mid-1960s, as well. All of this success led the CMA to name him Entertainer of the Year in 1974. In the same year he performed the Academy Award nominated theme song I feel love (Benji's Theme) from the film Benji. Rich had three more top five hits in 1975, but even though he was at the peak of his popularity, Rich began to drink heavily, causing considerable problems off-stage.
Rich's destructive personal behavior famously culminated at the CMA awards ceremony for 1975, when he presented the award for Entertainer of the Year, while visibly intoxicated. Instead of reading the name of the winner, who happened to be John Denver, he set fire to the envelope with a cigarette lighter, before announcing the award had gone to "My friend Mr. John Denver." Some considered it an act of rebellion against the Music Row-controlled Nashville Sound. But many speculated that Rich's behavior was a protest against the award going to Denver, whose music Rich had considered too "pop," and not enough "country."[2] Others, including industry insiders, were outraged, and Rich had trouble having hits throughout 1976, and only had one top ten with "Since I Fell For You."
The slump in his career was exacerbated by the fact that his records began to sound increasingly similar: pop-inflected country ballads with overdubbed strings and little of the jazz or blues Rich had performed his entire life. He did not have a top ten hit again until "Rollin' With the Flow" in 1977 went to number one. Early in 1978, he signed with United Artists Records, and throughout that year, he had hits on both Epic and UA. His hits in 1978 included the top ten hits "Beautiful Woman," "Puttin' In Overtime At Home," and his last number one with "On My Knees," a duet with Janie Fricke.
Rich struggled throughout 1979 having hits with United Artists and Epic. His singles were moderate hits that year, the biggest of them on either UA or Epic was a version of "Spanish Eyes," which became a top 20 country hit. Rich appeared as himself in the 1978 Clint Eastwood movie, Every Which Way but Loose, in which he performed the song "I'll Wake You Up When I Get Home." This song hit number three on the charts in 1979 and was his last top ten single. In 1980, he switched labels again to Elektra Records, and released a number twelve single, "A Man Just Don't Know What a Woman Goes Through" in the fall of that year. One more Top 40 hit followed, the Gary Stewart song "Are We Dreamin' the Same Dream" early in 1981, but Rich decided to remove himself from the spotlight. For over a decade, Rich was silent, living off his investments in semi-retirement and only playing occasional concerts. Also played a bit part in the 1981 movie Take This Job and Shove It as a recent oil millionaire looking for an investment into the Beer Brewery Business.
In 1992, Rich released Pictures and Paintings, a jazzy record that was produced by journalist Peter Guralnick. It was released on Sire Records. Pictures and Paintings received positive critical reviews and restored Rich's reputation as a musician, but it would be his last record. One of his opening acts in these years was Tom Waits, who mentioned him in the song "Putnam County" from his album Nighthawks at the Diner with the lyric: "The radio's spitting out Charlie Rich... He sure can sing, that son of a bitch."
Charlie Rich was traveling to Florida with his wife from Natchez, Mississippi, where he watched his son perform with Freddy Fender at a local casino, when he experienced a bout of severe coughing. After visiting a doctor in St. Francisville, Louisiana and receiving antibiotics, he continued traveling until he stopped to rest for the night. He died in his sleep on July 25, 1995, in a Hammond, Louisiana motel. He was 62 years old. The cause of death was a pulmonary embolism. He was buried in the Memorial Park Cemetery in Memphis, Tennessee.
At the time, Charlie Rich was survived by his wife of 43 years, Margaret; two sons, Allan and Jack; two daughters, Rene and Laurie; and grandchildren Maggie Carber Yelverton, Wesley Carber, and Christian Cole Lee. Margaret Rich passed away in Germantown, Tennessee on September 22, 2010 and was buried next to her husband.
Charlie Rich was simultaneously one of the most critically acclaimed and most erratic country singers of post-World War II era. Rich had all the elements of being one of the great country stars of the '60s and '70s, but his popularity never matched his critical notices. What made him a critical favorite also kept him from mass success. Throughout his career, Rich willfully bended genres, fusing country, jazz, blues, gospel, rockabilly, and soul. Though he had 45 country hits in a career that spanned nearly four decades, he became best-known for his lush, Billy Sherrill-produced countrypolitan records of the early '70s. Instead of embracing the stardom those records brought him, Rich shunned it, retreating into semiretirement by the '80s.
Rich began his professional musical career while he was enlisted in the U.S. Air Force in the early '50s. While he was stationed in Oklahoma, he formed a group called the Velvetones, which played jazz and blues and featured his fiancée, Margaret Ann, on lead vocals. Rich left the military in 1956, and he began performing clubs around the Memphis area, playing both jazz and R&B; he also began writing his own material. Rich managed to land a job as a session musician for Judd Records, which was owned by Judd Phillips, the brother of Sun Records founder Sam Phillips. Around this time, saxophonist and Sun recording artist Bill Justis heard Rich play at the Sharecropper Club and asked the pianist to write arrangements for him. Sam saw Rich perform with Justis at a club gig and asked him to record some demos at Sun Studios. Phillips rejected the resulting demos, claiming they were too jazzy. After absorbing some Jerry Lee Lewis records Justis gave him, Rich returned to Sun quickly and became a regular session musician for the label in 1958, playing and/or singing on records by Lewis, Johnny Cash, Justis, Warren Smith, Billy Lee Riley, Carl Mann, and Ray Smith. He was also writing songs, including "Break Up" for Lewis, "The Ways of a Woman in Love" for Cash, and "I'm Comin' Home" for Mann, which was later cut by Elvis Presley.
In August of 1958, Rich released his first single, "Whirlwind," for the Sun subsidiary Phillips International. Throughout 1959, he recorded a number of songs at Sun, though only a handful were actually released. Rich didn't have a hit until 1960, when his third Phillips International single, "Lonely Weekends," became a Top 30 pop hit. However, none of its seven follow-up singles were a success, though several of the songs would become staples in his set, including "Who Will the Next Fool Be?," "Sittin' and Thinkin'," and "Midnight Blues." In the early '60s, Rich's career remained stalled. He left Sun Records in 1964, signing with Groove, a newly established subsidiary of RCA. His first single, "Big Boss Man," was an underground, word-of-mouth hit, but its Chet Atkins-produced follow-ups all stiffed. On Groove, he jazzily interpreted standards, but he also performed a handful of originals, including "Tomorrow Night" and "I Don't See Me in Your Eyes Anymore." Groove went out of business by the beginning of 1965, leaving Rich without a record contract.
Under the direction of Shelby Singleton, Smash Records signed Rich early in 1965. Singleton and Rich's producer, Jerry Kennedy, encouraged the pianist to emphasize his country and rock & roll leanings. The first single for Smash was "Mohair Sam," an R&B-inflected novelty number written by Dallas Frazier. "Mohair Sam" became a Top 30 pop hit, but none of its follow-ups were successful. Again, Rich changed labels, moving over to Hi Records, where he recorded straight country, but none of his singles for the label made any impression on the country charts.
Despite his lack of consistent commercial success, Epic Records signed Rich in 1967, mainly on the recommendation of producer Billy Sherrill. Sherrill helped Rich refashion himself as a Nashville-based, smooth, middle-of-the-road balladeer. At first, the singles were only moderately successful — "Set Me Free" and "Raggedy Ann" charted in the mid-40s in 1968 — but persistence paid off in the summer of 1972, when "I Take It on Home" rocketed to number six. "I Take It on Home" set the stage for Rich's big breakthrough into the mainstream, 1973's Behind Closed Doors album. The title track from the record became a number one hit early in 1973, crossing over into the Top 20 on the pop charts. Following the success of "Behind Closed Doors," RCA re-released "Tomorrow Night," which reached the Top 30, but it was "The Most Beautiful Girl," the proper follow-up to his first number one single, that established him as a star. "The Most Beautiful Girl" spent three weeks at the top of the country charts and two weeks at the top of the pop charts. Behind Closed Doors won three awards from the Country Music Association that year: Best Male Vocalist, Album of the Year, and Single of the Year for the title track. The album was also certified gold, Rich won a Grammy for Best Country Vocal Performance, Male, and he also took home four ACM awards.
After "The Most Beautiful Girl," number one hits came quickly — "There Won't Be Anymore" (re-released from his RCA sessions), "A Very Special Love Song," "I Don't See Me in Your Eyes Anymore" (also from RCA), "I Love My Friend," and "She Called Me Baby" (RCA) all topped the country charts, and several of the songs also crossed over into the pop charts. Mercury began re-releasing his Smash recordings, and two of them — "A Field of Yellow Daisies" and "Something Just Came Over Me" — became minor hits. All of this success led the CMA to name him Entertainer of the Year in 1974.
Rich didn't quite dominate the charts in 1975 as he did the previous year, but he did have three Top Five hits: "My Elusive Dreams," "Every Time You Touch Me (I Get High)," and "All Over Me," plus the Top Ten "Since I Fell For You." Even though he was at the peak of his popularity, Rich had begun to drink heavily, causing considerable problems off-stage. His destructive behavior culminated at the CMA ceremony for 1975, when he presented the award for that year's Entertainer of the Year. Instead of reading the name of the winner, he set fire to the certificate that named the new winner, who happened to be John Denver. Fans and industry insiders were outraged, and Rich had trouble having hits throughout 1976 — none of his singles cracked the Top 20.
The slump in his career couldn't be completely attributed to Rich's behavior. His records had begun to sound increasingly similar, as he and Sherrill were working over the same territory they began exploring in 1968. There were exceptions — such as 1976's acclaimed gospel record, Silver Linings — but it took Rich until 1977 to break back into the Top Ten with the number one "Rollin' With the Flow." Early in 1978, he signed with United Artists and throughout that year had hits on both Epic and UA. Rich worked at United Artists with Larry Butler, a producer who had a similar style to Sherrill. Epic continued to have hits, as "Beautiful Woman" reached the Top Ten in the summer and a duet with Janie Fricke, "On My Knees," became his last number one hit that fall. "I'll Wake You Up When I Get Home," taken from the Clint Eastwood movie Every Which Way but Loose, was a number three hit early in 1979; it would be his last Top Ten single.
Rich struggled to have a big hit throughout 1979, but none of his singles were anything more than a minor success. In 1980, he switched labels to Elektra, resulting in the number 12 single "A Man Just Don't Know What a Woman Goes Through" in the fall of that year. One more Top 40 hit followed — "Are We Dreamin' the Same Dream" early in 1981 — but Rich decided to remove himself from the spotlight. For over a decade, Rich was silent, living in semiretirement and only playing the occasional concert. He returned in 1992 with Pictures and Paintings, a jazzy record produced by journalist Peter Guralnick and released on Sire.
Pictures and Paintings received positive reviews and restored Rich's reputation, but it would be his last record. Rich died from a blood clot in his lung in the summer of 1995, when he was travelling to Florida with his wife, Margaret Ann.
In the latter part of his life, Rich acquired the nickname The Silver Fox. He is perhaps best remembered for a pair of 1973 hits, "Behind Closed Doors" and "The Most Beautiful Girl". "The Most Beautiful Girl" topped the U.S. country singles charts, as well as the pop singles charts and earned him two Grammy Awards.
Though he resided in Benton, Arkansas, from around 1960 to 1981, Rich was born in Colt, Arkansas, to rural cotton farmers. His professional musical career began while he was in the U.S. Air Force in the early 1950s. His first musical group, the Velvetones, played jazz and blues and featured his fiancée, Margaret Ann, on lead vocals. Rich left the military in 1955 and tried to farm five acres in Tennessee. He also began performing in clubs around the Memphis area, playing both jazz and R&B. It was during these hard times that he began writing his own material.
Rich was a session musician for Judd Records, owned by Judd Phillips, the brother of Sun Records founder Sam Phillips. After recording some demos for Sam Phillips at Sun Records that Phillips didn't find commercial enough, and too jazzy, legend has it that he was given a stack of Jerry Lee Lewis records and told: "come back when you get that bad." A September 6, 2010 NPR airing of 1992 interview with Fresh Air host Terry Gross Charlie Rich tells the story himself of Bill Justis telling Rich's wife those exact words. In 1958, Rich became a regular session musician for Sun Records playing on records by Lewis, Johnny Cash, Bill Justis, Warren Smith, Billy Lee Riley, Carl Mann, and Ray Smith. He also wrote songs for Lewis, Cash, and others.
His third single for the Sun subsidiary, Phillips International Records, was the 1960 Top 30 hit, "Lonely Weekends," noted for its Presley-like vocals. None of his seven follow-up singles was a success, though several of the songs became staples in his live set, including "Who Will the Next Fool Be," "Sittin' and Thinkin'," and "No Headstone on My Grave." These songs were often recorded by others to varying degrees of success, such as the Bobby Bland version of "Who Will the Next Fool Be."
Rich's career stalled, and he left the struggling Sun label in 1963, signing with a subsidiary of RCA Records, Groove. His first single for Groove, "Big Boss Man," was a minor hit, but again his Chet Atkins-produced follow-ups all stiffed. Rich moved to Smash Records early in 1965. Rich's new producer, Jerry Kennedy, encouraged the pianist to emphasize his country and rock & roll leanings, although Rich considered himself a jazz pianist and had not paid much attention to country music since his childhood. The first single for Smash was "Mohair Sam," an R&B-inflected novelty-rock number, and it became a Top 30 pop hit. Unfortunately again for Rich, none of his follow-up singles were successful. Rich was forced to change labels, moving over to Hi Records, where he recorded blue-eyed soul music and straight country, but none of his singles made a dent on the country or pop charts. One Hi Records track Love Is After Me from 1966 belatedly became a white soul favourite in the early 1970s.
Despite his lack of consistent commercial success, Epic Records signed Rich in 1967, mainly on the recommendation of producer Billy Sherrill. Sherrill helped Rich refashion himself as a Nashville Sound balladeer during an era when old rock n' rollers like Jerry Lee Lewis and Conway Twitty were finding a new musical home in the country and western format. This new "Countrypolitan" Rich sound paid off in the summer of 1972, when "I Take It on Home" went to number six in the country charts. The title track from his 1973 album, Behind Closed Doors, became a number one hit early in that year, crossing over into the Top 20 on the pop charts. This time his follow-up did not disappoint, as "The Most Beautiful Girl" spent three weeks at the top of the country charts and two weeks at the top of the pop charts. Now that he was established as a country music star, Behind Closed Doors won three awards from the Country Music Association that year: Best Male Vocalist, Album of the Year, and Single of the Year. The album was also certified gold. Rich won a Grammy Award for Best Male Country Vocal Performance, and he took home four ACM awards. One of RCA's several resident songwriters, Marvin Walters, co-wrote for three years with Charlie producing four recordings including a very popular "Set Me Free".
After "The Most Beautiful Girl", number one hits came quickly, as five songs topped the country charts in 1974 and crossed over to the pop charts. The songs were "There Won't Be Anymore" (Pop No. 18), "A Very Special Love Song" (Pop No. 11), "I Don't See Me In Your Eyes Anymore" (Pop No. 47), "I Love My Friend" (Pop No. 24), and "She Called Me Baby" (Pop No. 47). Both RCA and Mercury (Smash was a subsidiary of Mercury which was absorbed into the main company in 1970) re-released his previously recorded material from the mid-1960s, as well. All of this success led the CMA to name him Entertainer of the Year in 1974. In the same year he performed the Academy Award nominated theme song I feel love (Benji's Theme) from the film Benji. Rich had three more top five hits in 1975, but even though he was at the peak of his popularity, Rich began to drink heavily, causing considerable problems off-stage.
Rich's destructive personal behavior famously culminated at the CMA awards ceremony for 1975, when he presented the award for Entertainer of the Year, while visibly intoxicated. Instead of reading the name of the winner, who happened to be John Denver, he set fire to the envelope with a cigarette lighter, before announcing the award had gone to "My friend Mr. John Denver." Some considered it an act of rebellion against the Music Row-controlled Nashville Sound. But many speculated that Rich's behavior was a protest against the award going to Denver, whose music Rich had considered too "pop," and not enough "country."[2] Others, including industry insiders, were outraged, and Rich had trouble having hits throughout 1976, and only had one top ten with "Since I Fell For You."
The slump in his career was exacerbated by the fact that his records began to sound increasingly similar: pop-inflected country ballads with overdubbed strings and little of the jazz or blues Rich had performed his entire life. He did not have a top ten hit again until "Rollin' With the Flow" in 1977 went to number one. Early in 1978, he signed with United Artists Records, and throughout that year, he had hits on both Epic and UA. His hits in 1978 included the top ten hits "Beautiful Woman," "Puttin' In Overtime At Home," and his last number one with "On My Knees," a duet with Janie Fricke.
Rich struggled throughout 1979 having hits with United Artists and Epic. His singles were moderate hits that year, the biggest of them on either UA or Epic was a version of "Spanish Eyes," which became a top 20 country hit. Rich appeared as himself in the 1978 Clint Eastwood movie, Every Which Way but Loose, in which he performed the song "I'll Wake You Up When I Get Home." This song hit number three on the charts in 1979 and was his last top ten single. In 1980, he switched labels again to Elektra Records, and released a number twelve single, "A Man Just Don't Know What a Woman Goes Through" in the fall of that year. One more Top 40 hit followed, the Gary Stewart song "Are We Dreamin' the Same Dream" early in 1981, but Rich decided to remove himself from the spotlight. For over a decade, Rich was silent, living off his investments in semi-retirement and only playing occasional concerts. Also played a bit part in the 1981 movie Take This Job and Shove It as a recent oil millionaire looking for an investment into the Beer Brewery Business.
In 1992, Rich released Pictures and Paintings, a jazzy record that was produced by journalist Peter Guralnick. It was released on Sire Records. Pictures and Paintings received positive critical reviews and restored Rich's reputation as a musician, but it would be his last record. One of his opening acts in these years was Tom Waits, who mentioned him in the song "Putnam County" from his album Nighthawks at the Diner with the lyric: "The radio's spitting out Charlie Rich... He sure can sing, that son of a bitch."
Charlie Rich was traveling to Florida with his wife from Natchez, Mississippi, where he watched his son perform with Freddy Fender at a local casino, when he experienced a bout of severe coughing. After visiting a doctor in St. Francisville, Louisiana and receiving antibiotics, he continued traveling until he stopped to rest for the night. He died in his sleep on July 25, 1995, in a Hammond, Louisiana motel. He was 62 years old. The cause of death was a pulmonary embolism. He was buried in the Memorial Park Cemetery in Memphis, Tennessee.
At the time, Charlie Rich was survived by his wife of 43 years, Margaret; two sons, Allan and Jack; two daughters, Rene and Laurie; and grandchildren Maggie Carber Yelverton, Wesley Carber, and Christian Cole Lee. Margaret Rich passed away in Germantown, Tennessee on September 22, 2010 and was buried next to her husband.
Charlie Rich was simultaneously one of the most critically acclaimed and most erratic country singers of post-World War II era. Rich had all the elements of being one of the great country stars of the '60s and '70s, but his popularity never matched his critical notices. What made him a critical favorite also kept him from mass success. Throughout his career, Rich willfully bended genres, fusing country, jazz, blues, gospel, rockabilly, and soul. Though he had 45 country hits in a career that spanned nearly four decades, he became best-known for his lush, Billy Sherrill-produced countrypolitan records of the early '70s. Instead of embracing the stardom those records brought him, Rich shunned it, retreating into semiretirement by the '80s.
Rich began his professional musical career while he was enlisted in the U.S. Air Force in the early '50s. While he was stationed in Oklahoma, he formed a group called the Velvetones, which played jazz and blues and featured his fiancée, Margaret Ann, on lead vocals. Rich left the military in 1956, and he began performing clubs around the Memphis area, playing both jazz and R&B; he also began writing his own material. Rich managed to land a job as a session musician for Judd Records, which was owned by Judd Phillips, the brother of Sun Records founder Sam Phillips. Around this time, saxophonist and Sun recording artist Bill Justis heard Rich play at the Sharecropper Club and asked the pianist to write arrangements for him. Sam saw Rich perform with Justis at a club gig and asked him to record some demos at Sun Studios. Phillips rejected the resulting demos, claiming they were too jazzy. After absorbing some Jerry Lee Lewis records Justis gave him, Rich returned to Sun quickly and became a regular session musician for the label in 1958, playing and/or singing on records by Lewis, Johnny Cash, Justis, Warren Smith, Billy Lee Riley, Carl Mann, and Ray Smith. He was also writing songs, including "Break Up" for Lewis, "The Ways of a Woman in Love" for Cash, and "I'm Comin' Home" for Mann, which was later cut by Elvis Presley.
In August of 1958, Rich released his first single, "Whirlwind," for the Sun subsidiary Phillips International. Throughout 1959, he recorded a number of songs at Sun, though only a handful were actually released. Rich didn't have a hit until 1960, when his third Phillips International single, "Lonely Weekends," became a Top 30 pop hit. However, none of its seven follow-up singles were a success, though several of the songs would become staples in his set, including "Who Will the Next Fool Be?," "Sittin' and Thinkin'," and "Midnight Blues." In the early '60s, Rich's career remained stalled. He left Sun Records in 1964, signing with Groove, a newly established subsidiary of RCA. His first single, "Big Boss Man," was an underground, word-of-mouth hit, but its Chet Atkins-produced follow-ups all stiffed. On Groove, he jazzily interpreted standards, but he also performed a handful of originals, including "Tomorrow Night" and "I Don't See Me in Your Eyes Anymore." Groove went out of business by the beginning of 1965, leaving Rich without a record contract.
Under the direction of Shelby Singleton, Smash Records signed Rich early in 1965. Singleton and Rich's producer, Jerry Kennedy, encouraged the pianist to emphasize his country and rock & roll leanings. The first single for Smash was "Mohair Sam," an R&B-inflected novelty number written by Dallas Frazier. "Mohair Sam" became a Top 30 pop hit, but none of its follow-ups were successful. Again, Rich changed labels, moving over to Hi Records, where he recorded straight country, but none of his singles for the label made any impression on the country charts.
Despite his lack of consistent commercial success, Epic Records signed Rich in 1967, mainly on the recommendation of producer Billy Sherrill. Sherrill helped Rich refashion himself as a Nashville-based, smooth, middle-of-the-road balladeer. At first, the singles were only moderately successful — "Set Me Free" and "Raggedy Ann" charted in the mid-40s in 1968 — but persistence paid off in the summer of 1972, when "I Take It on Home" rocketed to number six. "I Take It on Home" set the stage for Rich's big breakthrough into the mainstream, 1973's Behind Closed Doors album. The title track from the record became a number one hit early in 1973, crossing over into the Top 20 on the pop charts. Following the success of "Behind Closed Doors," RCA re-released "Tomorrow Night," which reached the Top 30, but it was "The Most Beautiful Girl," the proper follow-up to his first number one single, that established him as a star. "The Most Beautiful Girl" spent three weeks at the top of the country charts and two weeks at the top of the pop charts. Behind Closed Doors won three awards from the Country Music Association that year: Best Male Vocalist, Album of the Year, and Single of the Year for the title track. The album was also certified gold, Rich won a Grammy for Best Country Vocal Performance, Male, and he also took home four ACM awards.
After "The Most Beautiful Girl," number one hits came quickly — "There Won't Be Anymore" (re-released from his RCA sessions), "A Very Special Love Song," "I Don't See Me in Your Eyes Anymore" (also from RCA), "I Love My Friend," and "She Called Me Baby" (RCA) all topped the country charts, and several of the songs also crossed over into the pop charts. Mercury began re-releasing his Smash recordings, and two of them — "A Field of Yellow Daisies" and "Something Just Came Over Me" — became minor hits. All of this success led the CMA to name him Entertainer of the Year in 1974.
Rich didn't quite dominate the charts in 1975 as he did the previous year, but he did have three Top Five hits: "My Elusive Dreams," "Every Time You Touch Me (I Get High)," and "All Over Me," plus the Top Ten "Since I Fell For You." Even though he was at the peak of his popularity, Rich had begun to drink heavily, causing considerable problems off-stage. His destructive behavior culminated at the CMA ceremony for 1975, when he presented the award for that year's Entertainer of the Year. Instead of reading the name of the winner, he set fire to the certificate that named the new winner, who happened to be John Denver. Fans and industry insiders were outraged, and Rich had trouble having hits throughout 1976 — none of his singles cracked the Top 20.
The slump in his career couldn't be completely attributed to Rich's behavior. His records had begun to sound increasingly similar, as he and Sherrill were working over the same territory they began exploring in 1968. There were exceptions — such as 1976's acclaimed gospel record, Silver Linings — but it took Rich until 1977 to break back into the Top Ten with the number one "Rollin' With the Flow." Early in 1978, he signed with United Artists and throughout that year had hits on both Epic and UA. Rich worked at United Artists with Larry Butler, a producer who had a similar style to Sherrill. Epic continued to have hits, as "Beautiful Woman" reached the Top Ten in the summer and a duet with Janie Fricke, "On My Knees," became his last number one hit that fall. "I'll Wake You Up When I Get Home," taken from the Clint Eastwood movie Every Which Way but Loose, was a number three hit early in 1979; it would be his last Top Ten single.
Rich struggled to have a big hit throughout 1979, but none of his singles were anything more than a minor success. In 1980, he switched labels to Elektra, resulting in the number 12 single "A Man Just Don't Know What a Woman Goes Through" in the fall of that year. One more Top 40 hit followed — "Are We Dreamin' the Same Dream" early in 1981 — but Rich decided to remove himself from the spotlight. For over a decade, Rich was silent, living in semiretirement and only playing the occasional concert. He returned in 1992 with Pictures and Paintings, a jazzy record produced by journalist Peter Guralnick and released on Sire.
Pictures and Paintings received positive reviews and restored Rich's reputation, but it would be his last record. Rich died from a blood clot in his lung in the summer of 1995, when he was travelling to Florida with his wife, Margaret Ann.
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Actress Stayed in bed all mornin' just to pass the time. There's…
Adrian Milanio Do we keep trying if we don't see That we don't…
Aitken Stayed in bed all mornin' just to pass the time. There's…
Aitken Laurel Stayed in bed all mornin' just to pass the time. There's…
Aldo Nova You call me on the telephone And you say you'll never…
Alexander Zonjic Stayed in bed all mornin' just to pass the time. There's…
Amanda Perez So many nites that I cried tears for you And…
Andy Carlson I can't find a love, since you But I see that…
Andy Williams Stayed in bed all mornin' just to pass the time. There's…
Asche & Spencer I don't know what I should do, I wanna fight for…
Asobi Seksu It's too late You've said that you're trying But something…
Audition What you, what you see is something you can't distinguish, …
Ayo You said I was crazy As I broke down to floor I…
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b.l.o.w Is it too late, Is it too late Know I was…
b.l.o.w. Stayed in bed all mornin' just to pass the time. There's…
Backstrom The summer seems to be gone The sun is setting low As…
Benjamin Clayton Give me a chance to prove myself I took a…
Betablock3r It′s too late to come back now It's too late to…
Bette Midler If I close my eyes, Take my time, I can almost feel…
Bill Deal Stayed in bed all mornin' just to pass the time. There's…
Bob Dylan So run here baby, put your little hands in mine I've…
Bob Mould Lately I've been thinking And how the whole world's come und…
Bobbi Humphrey Stayed in bed all mornin' just to pass the time. There's…
Bobby Goldsboro I remember when I told you That I tried in every…
Bobby Vee & The Crickets It's too late, she's gone It's too late, my baby?s gone Wish…
Bobby Vee & The Shadows Lust for Life won't help you to escape the price Eventually…
Bonnie Raitt Lowell George & John Hammond Stayed in bed all mornin' just to pass the time. There's…
Booka Shade She said 'Meet me at the gates at eight 'Leave now,…
Bridin Brennan This time you gotta' face it Too late 'cause there's no…
Buddy Holly It's too late, she's gone It's too late, my baby?s gone Wish…
Bunny Brown Stayed in bed all mornin' just to pass the time. There's…
Byun Jin-sub 부드러운 그 입술로 내게 다가와 나를 사랑한다 말한다 해도 이미 멀어져 버린…
Candy Snatchers Stayed in bed all mornin' just to pass the time. There's…
Capitol Affair Pacing around the silent room 'Cause all the music still rem…
Carol Burnett Stayed in bed all mornin' just to pass the time. There's…
Carol King Stayed in bed all morning just to pass the time There's…
Carole Stayed in bed all mornin' just to pass the time There's…
Carole King;James Taylor Stayed in bed all mornin' just to pass the time There's…
Carole King Stayed in bed all mornin' just to pass the time There's…
Carroll Dina Stayed in bed all mornin' just to pass the time. There's…
Carroll Jim It's too late To fall in love with Sharon Tate But…
Casey Dubie Stayed in bed all morning just to pass the time Something…
Charly McClain It's too late, you say you want me, but it's…
China Crisis We've just begun To see in a different way No summer sun Or…
Chuck Willis Stayed in bed all mornin' just to pass the time. There's…
Coilbox Hidden stars It's hard to know what I'm feeling not sufferin…
Conway Twitty It's too late, she's gone It's too late, my baby's gone Wish…
Crickets The It's too late, she's gone It's too late, my baby?s gone Wish…
CTI All-Stars Stayed in bed all mornin' just to pass the time. There's…
Culture Beat Stayed in bed all morning just to pass the time There's…
Dana And The Wolf man im in trouble when art isn’t loyal just speakin my mind…
Danger Inc. Say that to me one more time and I'm walking…
David and the Woods He makes my day with every grin I feel myself shake…
David Lasley Stayed in bed all mornin' just to pass the time. There's…
Defiance Well, it seems like yesterday Young and bored, we got nothin…
Denise LaSalle Stayed in bed all mornin' just to pass the time. There's…
Dennis Coffey Stayed in bed all mornin' just to pass the time. There's…
Dennis Coffey & The Detroit Guitar Band Stayed in bed all mornin' just to pass the time. There's…
Derailers We had our chance to make those vows Fell in love…
Derek [Chorus] It's too late, she's gone. It's too late, my baby's…
Derek And The Dominoes [Chorus] It's too late, she's gone. It's too late, my baby…
Derek and the Dominos [Chorus] It's too late, she's gone. It's too late, my baby's…
Dina Carroll Stayed in bed all mornin' just to pass the time. There's…
Dina Carroll Featuring Quartz Stayed in bed all mornin' just to pass the time. There's…
Dirty South Monday morning: Hesitate, I can't get out of bed I'd rather…
Dirty South & Evermore Stayed in bed all mornin just to pass the time There's…
Dirty South vs. Evermore Monday morning: Hesitate, I can't get out of bed I'd rather…
DJay (Terrence Howard) ft Shug (Taraji P. Henson) You never let me have my way Baby let me do…
Doc Powell Stayed in bed all mornin' just to pass the time. There's…
Dominos The [Chorus] It's too late, she's gone. It's too late, my baby…
Down & Dirty Monday morning: Hesitate, I can't get out of bed I'd rather…
Down-N-Out If I saw you there Waitin' outside I couldn't tell If you an…
Dr. Horse Come on baby please don´t cry There is no need to…
DREAMS COME TRUE Chill 冷めた目で笑う Chilly いつ頃から Cheek 気付かないふりも My cheek 今日で終わる 私…
Duane Allman & Eric Clapton You said you was hurting, Almost lost your mind, And the man…
ear-O-tation Is it too late, Is it too late Know I was…
Enchanette Stayed in bed all mornin' just to pass the time. There's…
Enuff Z'Nuff Your hand is shaking By the sweet candle light As the suga…
Eric Clapton It's too late, she's gone It's too late, my baby's gone Wi…
Eric Clapton & Duane Allman You said you was hurting, Almost lost your mind, And the man…
Eric Clapton with Derek and the Dominos [Chorus] It's too late, she's gone. It's too late, my baby…
Eric Kloss Stayed in bed all mornin' just to pass the time. There's…
Evermore Monday morning, hesitate I can't get out of bed I'd rather g…
Evermore & Dirty South Monday morning: Hesitate, I can't get out of bed I'd rather…
Felecia Yeah, hell yeah (Ooh, ooh, yeah). Desperately, yeah I got my…
Foghat Rod Price Dave Peverett - Knee Trembler Music - ASCAP Since…
Forever Changed Hey, I want to talk to you but it's too…
Frank Vignola Stayed in bed all mornin' just to pass the time. There's…
Gabriel & Castellon (Intro) That's what I thought you said Lemme offer this as a…
Gail Blanco Stayed in bed all morning just to pass the time There's…
Garcia & Saunders Life is caring for yourself So you can help somebody else Li…
Glee Cast Stayed in bed all morning just to pass the time There's…
Gloria Estefan Stayed in bed all mornin' just to pass the time. There's…
Gloria Estefan ((In Performance At The White House) Stayed in bed all mornin' just to pass the time. There's…
Goldsboro Bobby I remember when I told you That I tried in every…
H.E.C You can't make promises when you're half gone You can't make…
Haerts What if I could find another way to fly Let me…
Hammond Johnny Stayed in bed all mornin' just to pass the time. There's…
Hanoi Rocks In the year '79 Wham, bam, bam, bam Wham, bam, bam, bam W…
Hearts Apart Still hear your screams The tears on your cheeks Me standing…
Helix My blood is hot And my fever is high I should have…
Hiroshi Kubota Stayed in bed all mornin' just to pass the time. There's…
Hope Partlow I know my heart was cold But take back all the…
Hush Club Stayed in bed all mornin' just to pass the time There's…
Isaac Hayes Stayed in bed all mornin' just to pass the time. There's…
J.P. McDermott & Western Bop I like the way she flip it It don't make a…
Jaki Byard Stayed in bed all mornin' just to pass the time. There's…
James Morrison (by Carole King) I stayed in bed all mornin' just to…
James Taylor & Carole King Stayed in bed all mornin' just to pass the time There's…
Jeanne Pruett Stayed in bed all mornin' just to pass the time. There's…
Jerry Butler Soon it's never more When you've got to pay for Promises, …
Jerry Garcia It's too late, she's gone It's too late, my baby's gone Wi…
Jerry Garcia Band It's too late, she's gone It's too late, my baby's gone Yes…
Jes You might be the only thing I ever think about You…
Jheena Lodwick Stayed in bed all morning just to pass the time There's…
Jill Johnson IT'S TOO LATE TO BE DRINKIN'|IT'S TOO DARK TO BE…
Jim Carroll It's too late To fall in love with Sharon Tate But…
Jim Carroll Band It's too late To fall in love with Sharon Tate But…
Jim Rotondi Quintet Stayed in bed all mornin' just to pass the time. There's…
Joe Pass Stayed in bed all mornin' just to pass the time. There's…
Johnny "Hammond" Smith Stayed in bed all mornin' just to pass the time. There's…
Johnny Hammond Stayed in bed all mornin' just to pass the time. There's…
Johnny Rivers It's Too Late (Whisky A Go Go) Johnny Rivers I remember whe…
Johnny “Hammond” Smith Stayed in bed all mornin' just to pass the time. There's…
Joseph Arthur If I tell you what's on my mind Don't know if…
Jr. Walker & The All Stars Stayed in bed all mornin' just to pass the time. There's…
Justus Köhncke Stayed in bed all mornin' just to pass the time. There's…
K.O.B.P Is it too late, Is it too late Know I was…
K.O.B.P. Stayed in bed all mornin' just to pass the time. There's…
Karaoke - Gloria Estefan Stayed in bed all mornin' just to pass the time. There's…
Keito Blow you'll never sing a song for me you'll never sing, smile…
Killer It's not too late I hide myself Cause i can't face forever P…
King Carole Stayed in bed all mornin' just to pass the time There's…
King Inertia It's too late I guess you chose your fate Boy get out…
Kyle Vincent Stayed in bed all mornin' just to pass the time. There's…
L.A. ENSEMBLE Yuh, Skrrt, Yuh yuh, ay, Draco, yuh Yuh, They've invaded, th…
L.C. Donatto You can't make promises when you're half gone You can't make…
LaSalle Denise Stayed in bed all mornin' just to pass the time. There's…
Laurel Aitken Stayed in bed all mornin' just to pass the time. There's…
Laurel Aitken & The Unitone Stayed in bed all mornin' just to pass the time. There's…
Laurent Wolf I just saw what you need, Everybody you seed, I now run,…
Les Valentins Alright When I needed you Stand by my side All you did Lor…
Lesley Gore Stayed in bed all morning just to pass the time There′s…
Lexnour It's too late I can't take what you did to…
Lington Michael Stayed in bed all mornin' just to pass the time. There's…
Lisa Cochran It's Too Late Lyrics (M)-We first met we made love every…
Logan Lynn Turn my blind eyes blue like I promised The voice of…
Lorrie Morgan Stayed in bed all mornin' just to pass the time. There's…
Louise Thomas Stayed in bed all mornin' just to pass the time. There's…
Lucie Silvas Mmmmmm.... Maybe I gave too much But you made me…
Luther Allison Alright When I needed you Stand by my side All you did Lor…
M-80 She was the youngest of three She seemed so innocent, charmi…
M.G. & The Escorts I say better late than never they say If you're on…
Major T. We're living our lives without someone to guide us Are we…
Majority Rule So here I am. Again. Alone. The light is broken. Too…
Mandrill Stayed in bed all mornin' just to pass the time. There's…
Marcela Stayed in bed all mornin' just to pass the time There's…
Marcela Mangabeira Stayed In Bed All Morning Just To Pass The Time There's…
Marty Robbins Things have changed a lot since first we met still…
Marvin & Johnny Stayed in bed all mornin' just to pass the time. There's…
Marvin Sease I give you all of my love But you wouldn't treat…
Meg Birch Stayed in bed all morning just to pass the time There′s…
MIA GLADSTONE Stayed in bed all mornin' just to pass the time There's…
Michael Johns I know my heart was cold and I take back…
Michael Lington Stayed in bed all mornin' just to pass the time. There's…
mika 中島美嘉 "愛にルールなど邪魔になるだけ" 黒い髪似合うね 気に留めた事もないくせに ありがとうも言わずに作り笑いをした あの日…
Mike James Kirkland Stayed in bed all mornin' just to pass the time. There's…
Morri It's all too much, It's all too much When I look…
Mr. & Ms. Why must I always play the clown? Why must I always…
Mystery Jets You were the apple of my eye, My Phoebe Cates…
Nanci Griffith You pace the pool and talk about it I read my…
Nayobe Girl friend call me on the telephone today She asked me…
New York Dolls Stayed in bed all mornin' just to pass the time. There's…
Nick Holmes Feared and loathed besides It's such a tragedy I've seen al…
No Harm Done My world is changing The sky used to be so true I'm…
Noel 'Bunny' Brown Stayed in bed all mornin' just to pass the time. There's…
Noel Brown Bunny Stayed in bed all mornin' just to pass the time. There's…
North and South Monday morning: Hesitate, I can't get out of bed I'd rather…
Novaspace It's too late It's about time to say goodbye Nothing mor…
Otis Redding Wished i had told her Ooh she was my only one But…
Outforce & Age-O Is it too late, Is it too late Know I was…
P. Jones Stayed in bed all mornin' just to pass the time. There's…
P.J. Proby Picking up the pieces Of my heart Laying bare on the floor F…
Paradise Lost Feared and loathed besides It's such a tragedy I've seen al…
Paradise Lost (1999 - Host) Feared and loathed besides It's such a tragedy I've seen…
Paradise Lost/Nick Holmes Feared and loathed besides It's such a tragedy I've seen al…
Part Time Summer′s here and the time is right To catch you and…
PAUL Billy Stayed in bed all mornin' just to pass the time. There's…
Paula The dark rings around like tar And I'm always trapped before…
Peter Matz Stayed in bed all mornin' just to pass the time. There's…
Pickett Wilson Stayed in bed all mornin' just to pass the time. There's…
polar night Listen, to these words that I say And you can't run…
Pretty Purdie & The Playboys Stayed in bed all mornin' just to pass the time. There's…
R. Webb Nothing's so hard We can get around it If anything's wrong F…
R.Braga Dont know what you want i need to know Dont pick…
Rachel Portman Stayed in bed all mornin' just to pass the time There's…
Ray Conniff Stayed in bed all mornin' just to pass the time. There's…
RedrumSociety You call me crying To say you're changing your mind Do you…
Reynard Silva Girl you know it kills me, Cos I know it kills…
Rides Again I don't know where I belong I feel as cold as…
Rodney Carrington It's Too Late Lyrics (M)-We first met we made love every…
Roy Orbison It's too late, she's gone It's too late, my baby's…
Sally Vaughn It's too late (Too late) You say you want me but…
sara evans Stayed in bed all morning just to pass the time There′s…
Sarah Sharp Look me in the eye And tell me once again That it…
Secret Mutilator The pleasures being used A fact that will keep us in…
Shadow Reichenstein Lust for Life won't help you to escape the price Eventually…
Shaker's Please pass me my daily dose of doom Another ghost just…
Shannon the Clams Darlin' It's too late For a phone call I don't wanna wake…
Shaun Cassidy Now you found out that your new love Isn't true like…
Shirley Marshall Stayed in bed all mornin' just to pass the time. There's…
Slaine [Verse 1:] I'm like a burnt out light bulb, a bad…
Slim & Ann Tarheel Slim: I hear you knocking on my door you can't come …
Small Faces My daddy told me there'll be girls like you I guess…
Sofia Stayed in bed all morning just to pass the time There's…
Sondre Lerche Let it go, everyone's bound to know that I've lost…
St. John's Eve Don't fear your best friends, Because a best friend would…
Stacked Like Pancakes Everybody listen: we are our own worst enemy but it might…
Steadlur I bet your parents they don't wanna know Everywhere we'll go…
Streets She said 'Meet me at the gates at eight 'Leave now,…
Sugar's Campaign うわべで言う call my name 追われてるせい あわててく脳内へ すべては lie さよならしたい 平坦な今日 …
Sunny & The Sunglows 10 ਵੱਜਣ ਲਗੇ ਆ ਮੈਂ ਕਿਹਾ 5 minute ਰਹਿ ਗਏ ਛੇੱਤੀ-ਛੇੱਤੀ…
T.S.O.L. Is it too late, Is it too late Know I was…
Tapestry Revisited - Amy Grant Stayed in bed all mornin' just to pass the time. There's…
Tarheel Slim Tarheel Slim: I hear you knocking on my door you can't come …
Ted Taylor Stayed in bed all mornin' just to pass the time. There's…
Ten-O-One Is it too late, Is it too late Know I was…
tetsu VERSE: Why do we keep hiding under covers it's like…
The Adelians You gave me no reason to love you You gave me…
The Androids Tryin' to keep straight but you left it too late The…
The Animals Money, money, money, I gotta find a job It's not very…
The Audition What you, what you see is something you can't distinguish, S…
THE BAWDIES Too late babe It's too late babe It's too late to cry It's…
The Candy Snatchers Stayed in bed all mornin' just to pass the time. There's…
The Cashburys Stayed in bed all mornin' just to pass the time There's…
The Core Featuring Louise Stayed in bed all mornin' just to pass the time. There's…
The Craftmen Club Don't move, stay cool Not trying to fight Listen and open yo…
The Crickets It's too late, she's gone It's too late, my baby's…
The Crickets/Buddy Holly It's too late, she's gone It's too late, my baby?s gone Wish…
The Dahmers Don't worry Time may heal The wounds in my heart And in my…
The Dead-End Alley Band Yes they are watching In the land of a thousand eyes Even…
The Derailers We had our chance to make those vows Fell in love…
The E&E Blues Express Yeah it's too hot to crash Imma go back Imma go back…
The Empty Pages It's too late for begging for forgiveness It's too late for…
The Happy Boys Monday morning: Hesitate, I can't get out of bed I'd rather…
The Isley Brothers Stayed in bed all mornin' just to pass the time. There's…
The Isley Brothers The Isley Brothers Stayed in bed all mornin' just to pass the time. There's…
The Isleys Stayed in bed all mornin' just to pass the time. There's…
The Jim Carroll Band It's too late To fall in love with Sharon Tate But…
The Kinks It's too late now for you to say your sorry It's…
The M Picking up the pieces Of my heart Laying bare on the floor F…
The Moons I remember when we used to sing And go dance outside…
The New York Dolls Stayed in bed all mornin' just to pass the time. There's…
The Rogue Oh I've been thinking Of you every weekend Tell me you too T…
The Sandpipers Stayed in bed all mornin' just to pass the time. There's…
the skatalites laurel aitken Stayed in bed all mornin' just to pass the time. There's…
The Small Faces My daddy told me there'll be girls like you I guess…
The Sounds Do you have the memory? Of how easy it was Not? Do you…
The Strangers Stayed in bed all mornin' just to pass the time. There's…
The Street She said 'Meet me at the gates at eight 'Leave now,…
The Streets (High Contrast Remix) She said 'Meet me at the gates at eight 'Leave now,…
The Stylistics Stayed in bed all mornin' just to pass the time. There's…
The Supremes Stayed in bed all mornin' just to pass the time. There's…
The Troggs She said, "Meet me at the gates at 8 Leave now,…
The Tubes I'm on my way and I won't be back tomorrow I heard…
The Woggles Come on baby please don´t cry There is no need to…
Thea Hjelmeland For months I had been waiting day out, day in for months…
Tito Nieves Stayed in bed all mornin' just to pass the time. There's…
True Gospel Bookstore We looked the part of an American family With two kids,…
Tuz It's Too Late.…
U.S. Distress I watched you crying Thought to myself How you must be so…
V.A. (Too late, Too late) (Too late) In this automatic age We sh…
various artists Stayed in bed all morning just to pass the time There's…
Vinx Stayed in bed all mornin' just to pass the time. There's…
Weiß Watching the shadows on my window Too scared to understand L…
Western Plaza It's too late To give your time to me Okay, some time…
Wild Belle Now that you want me it's too late It's too late…
Willis Jackson Stayed in bed all mornin' just to pass the time. There's…
Workshy Stayed in bed all morning just to pass the time There's…
www.diamondzz.de.ms Its to late…
中島美嘉 "愛にルールなど邪魔になるだけ" 黒い髪似合うね 気に留めた事もないくせに ありがとうも言わずに作り笑いをした あの日…
杉山清貴 街で一番 高いビルの 最上階の 部屋で君は 深い溜息を つきながら 脱ぎ散らかした 服を探す ベッドの中で 眠る男は 名…
We have lyrics for these tracks by Charlie Rich:
'Til I Can't Take It Anymore Let's not fight it anymore Unpack your bags and close the…
A Field Of Yellow Daisies We met in a field of yellow daisies Wild and young…
A Satisfied Man You won't ever see me Running around There's no point in loo…
A Sunday Kind of Woman I can only imagine for our worlds are far apart How…
A Very Speacial Love Song Babe Somewhere I know I'm gonna find it, babe It'll have my…
All Over Me I've been thinking it over But I can't figure out how Were…
Almost Persuaded Last night all alone in a barroom Met a girl with…
Amazing Grace Amazing grace! How sweet the sound That saved a wretch like …
America The Beautiful America, America, America, America O beautiful for spacio…
are you still my baby I got such a thrill the first time that I…
Beautiful Woman You are my dream come true And I believe in you,…
Behind Closed Doors My baby makes me proud, Lord, don't she make me…
Big Boss Man Big boss man Won't you hear me when I call I said…
Break Up Well, that little guy you been seein' most every day Shouldn…
Cold cold heart I tried so hard, my dear, to show that you're…
Daddy Don't You Walk So Fast The love between the two of us was dying And it…
Don't Put No Headstone on My Grave Don't put no headstone on my grave, All my life I've…
Easy Look She's got that easy look Anytime you're ready kind of easy…
Easy Money Ea... sy money Keep it all away from me Ea... sy money It′s…
Every Time You Touch Me Every time you touch me I get high And every time…
Every Time You Touch Me (I Get High) Lonely Weekends Charlie Rich (Rich) Well I'm makin' alrigh…
Everything I Do Is Wrong I see a great big sign on a one way…
Everytime You Touch Me Every time you touch me I get high And every time…
Feel Like Going Home Lord I feel like going home I tried and failed and…
Field of Yellow Daisies We met in a field of yellow daisies Wild and young…
Good Time Charlie's Got The Blues Who is the hippie that's happenin' all over our town? Tearin…
I Don't See Me In Your Eyes Anymore (Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah) I don't see me In your eyes anymore O…
I Love My Friend She was crying And I was lonely And a band was playing Some…
I Miss You So Those happy hours I spent with you That lovely afterglow Mos…
I Take It Home Sometimes at the end of the day Before I head home,…
I Washed My Hands In Muddy Water Well I was born in Macon, Georgia They kept my Daddy…
I'll wake you up when I get home I spent the day just missing you remembering your touch Coun…
If You Wouldn't Be My Lady Take away the song a songbird sings Take away the sound…
Ill wake you up when I get home I spent the day just missing you remembering your touch Coun…
It's All Over Now I've been thinking it over But I can't figure out how Were…
July 12 1939 July the 12th sure was a scorcher Mama, she fixed some…
Let Me Go My Merry Way I don't want you I don't need you Why don't we just…
Life Has It's Little Ups And Downs I don't know how to tell her That I didn't get…
Life's Little Ups And Downs (Margaret Ann Rich) I don't know how to tell her I…
Lonely Weekends Well I'm makin' alright (Well I'm makin' alright) From Monda…
Lonely Weekends - Master Version Uragiri no yuuyake Yakkaini kara mitsuku ase wo Kirisaku you…
Mama I saw a man walk from a bar today And staggered…
Midnight Blues Midnite, you know you're doing me wrong Midnite, doing me wr…
Mohair Sam Who is the hippie that's happenin' all over our town? Tearin…
Mood Indigo You ain't never been blue; no, no, no, You ain't…
Most Beautiful Girl Hey, did you happen to see the most beautiful girl…
My Elusive Dreams My Elusive Dreams By Charlie Rich You followed me to Texas.…
My Heart Cries for You My heart cries for you Sighs for you, dies for you And…
Nice 'n Easy Let's take it nice and easy It's gonna be so easy For…
On My Knees You followed me to Texas You followed me to Utah We didn't…
Papa Was A Good Man It rained all the way to Cincinnati With our mattress on…
Peace On You God ain't gonna love you any 'Cause you loved too many…
Portrait Of My Love She was crying And I was lonely And a band was playing Some…
Rebound Look out baby I'm after you You done something to me…
River Stay 'Way From My Door River, stay 'way from my door You keep going your way And…
Rollin Once was a thought inside my head Fore I'd reach thirty…
SET ME FREE If you think you've had enough If you think our life's…
She She called me baby, baby All night long Used to hold and…
Since I Fell For You When you just give love And never get love You'd better let…
Sittin' & Thinkin' (Please baby wait for me) (Wait for me) (Wait for me) I got…
Spanish Eyes Blue Spanish eyes Teardrops are falling from your Spanish ey…
Stay (Charlie Rich) I don′t know what to say But I pray that…
Swing Low Sweet Chariot I looked over Jordan, and what did I see Coming for…
Take Time To Love If today the sun should set on all my hopes…
That's What Love Is Love is a baby drinkin' from his mama's breast Love is…
The Most Beatifull Girl Hey, did you happen to see the most beautiful girl…
There Won Don't wait for the postman If you're looking for a letter…
There's Another Place I Can't Go Can't go down to the river where we meet If I…
Try A Little Tenderness Oh she may be weary Them young girls they do get…
Unchained Melody Oh, my love, my darling I′ve hungered for your touch A long,…
Very Special Love Song Babe, somewhere I know I'm gonna find it, babe. It'll have…
We Love Each Other They ask me how we do it and I tell…
When Something Is Wrong With My Baby When something is wrong with my baby Something is wrong wit…
Whirlwind Well, whirlwind of love, my darling Whirlwind of love, my de…
Who Will The Next Fool Be Well, that little guy you been seein' him most every…
Why Me Why me Lord, what have I ever done To deserve even…
You Can Have Her Well you can have her, I don't want her She didn't…
You Don't Know Me You give your hand to me Then you say "Hello" And I…
You Never Really Wanted Me (A. Rich) You never really wanted me Now I can see Yes I…
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