(1) A country singer an… Read Full Bio ↴There are at least two artists by this name:
(1) A country singer and songwriter from Texas.
(2) An alias of techno producer Thomas Wendel.
(1) Don Williams (Born May 27, 1939, in Floydada, Texas - Died September 8, 2017) spent much of his childhood in Corpus Christi, Texas. His father was a mechanic whose job took him to other regions, his mother played guitar and he grew up listening to country music. He and Lofton Kline formed a semi-professional folk group called the Strangers Two, and then, with the addition of Susan Taylor, they became the Pozo-Seco Singers, the phrase being a geological term to denote a dry well. Handled by Bob Dylan's manager Albert Grossman, they had major pop hits in the U.S. with "Time," "I Can Make It With You" and "Look What You've Done." Following Kline's departure, they employed several replacements, resulting in a lack of musical direction. After Williams had failed to turn the trio towards country music, they disbanded in 1971.
He then worked for his father-in-law but also wrote for Susan Taylor's solo album via Jack Clement's music publishing company. Clement asked Williams to record albums of his company's best songs, mainly with a view to attracting other performers. In 1973, Don Williams, Volume 1 was released on the fledgling JMI label and included such memorable songs as Bob McDill's apologia for growing old, "Amanda," and Williams' own "The Shelter of Your Eye." Williams' work was reissued by Dot Records, and Don Williams, Volume 2 included "Atta Way to Go" and "We Should Be Together." Williams then had a country No. 1 with Wayland Holyfield's "You're My Best Friend," which has become a standard and is the perennial sing-along anthem at his concerts. By now, the Williams' style had developed: gently paced love songs with straightforward arrangements, lyrics and sentiments. Williams was mining the same vein as Jim Reeves, but he eschewed Reeves' smartness by dressing like a ranch-hand. Besides having a huge contingent of female fans, Williams counted Eric Clapton and Pete Townshend among his admirers. Clapton recorded his country hit "Tulsa Time," written by Danny Flowers, a member of Williams' band.
Williams played a band member himself in the Burt Reynolds film W.W. & the Dixie Dance Kings and also appeared in Smokey and the Bandit 2. Williams' other successes include "Till the Rivers All Run Dry," "Some Broken Hearts Never Mend," "Lay Down Beside Me" and his only U.S. solo pop hit, "I Believe in You." Unlike most established country artists, he has not sought duet partners, although he and Emmylou Harris found success in 1981 with their version of Townes Van Zandt's "If I Needed You." Among the highlights of Williams' recording career is his interpretation of "Good Ol' Boys Like Me," McDill's homage to his southern roots. Moving to Capitol Records in the mid-'80s, Williams released such singles as "Heartbeat in the Darkness" and "Senorita," but the material was not as impressive. He took a sabbatical in 1988, but subsequent RCA Records recordings showed that nothing had changed.
In 1998, Williams released I Turn the Page on Giant Records, but the label soon closed its country music division. Following a live album in 2001, Williams retuned in 2004 with My Heart to You.
Maintaining his stress-free style, Williams continues to be a major concert attraction, especially in the U.K. and South Africa.
Williams initially started out as a songwriter for Jack Music Inc., since he lacked belief about going solo but then signed with JMI as a solo artist. His 1974 song "We Should Be Together" reached number five and he was signed on with ABC/Dot. His first single with ABC/Dot, "I Wouldn't Want to Live If You Didn't Love Me," became a number one hit, and was the first of a string of top ten hits he had between 1974 and 1991. In fact, only four of his 46 singles didn't make it to the Top Ten. Recently (as of 2012), he released the album And So It Goes.
From His Own Website.
They came to call Don Williams βthe Gentle Giantβ in the decades he was a dominating country hit maker because of his unique blend of commanding presence and that laid-back, easy style that has appealed to adult men and women alikeβcutting across national and genre boundaries. If those personal and musical qualities stood out strongly across the 1970s, β80s and β90s, they are all the more distinctive in 2012, when so many country and pop records seem to work as check off lists of somebodyβs idea of how to be a man, or hard-sell attempts to indicate affection for a woman. Don Williams has never sounded like he felt the need to sell somebody something, or to prove anything.
On And So It Goes, available from Sugar Hill on June 19th, that winning, self-assured ease is again front and center, and the musical style that has made Don a ballad vocal model for performers ranging from Eric Clapton (with whom heβd traded songsββTulsa Time,β βLay Down Sallyβ) to Keith Urban (who guests on this release). One listen to the characteristically right-on-target vocals on this first Don Williams recording in eight years and his admirers will be wondering what heβs done to maintain that strength over the hiatus.
βWell, there are things that I donβt do,β Don laughs. βI donβt do a whole lot of sitting around chit-chatting, laughing, and carrying onβespecially when Iβm on the road, where that just makes you tired, anyway. Even at home on the farm there are literally days on end that I may not say anything but for an hour or two a day.β
This man who so clearly loves the quiet home life can still fill an auditorium or stadium across the U.S., the U.K., Europe and Africa; his special role as an international ambassador for American country and pop music is ongoing and his musical appeal, he has long since been astonished to find, is about the same from the Central Time Zone to central Africa.
βThe weird thing about that isβno; I donβt change my show to go play England or Nairobi. I can pretty much choose anything from my repertoire and it works wherever I am, and that still amazes me, because youβre talking about different cultures, sometimes different languages, and the whole nine yards.β
The hundreds of memorable songs in that repertoireβover fifty of them major hitsβwhether contemplative ballads, affecting love songs or change-up rhythm numbers, have always been a core Don Williams strength and focus. Don and long-time producer Garth Fundis, who returns in that role on this new album, each credit the other with having contributed to their own song-picking and sequencing skillsβskills well put to shared use again when Nashvilleβs finest writers submitted hundreds of songs for consideration for Donβs return to recording. They both knew what they were looking for in selections that would appear on And So It Goes:
βTheyβre very well written, theyβre interesting, and the melody and the lyric are saying the same thing,β Don says. βEven when weβre starting looking for the songs, just experimenting, Garth and I are just in agreement; we just want to make good music that touches our hearts and, hopefully, touches othersβ in the process. For many years, though, Garth has fussed at me about one thingβ that we need to be sure and do whatever song that I wrote, because I would just pass over it. I get more excited about a new song that Iβve just heard than I do my own material!β (There are, in fact, two Don Williams co-writes among the ten outstanding songs on this new release.)
Riding and crossing the line between country and pop, and all the more distinctive for doing it, Don brought a sound and sensibility to the country charts that proved a smashβa development that was initially a surprise even to him.
βWhen I was just a wee lad,β he recalls, βI really appreciated people like Johnny Horton, Johnny Cash and Jim Reeves; all of those guys back then meant a lot to me, but at the same time, I really loved Brook Benton, and the Platters and all of those people. But even when I was βin popβ myself, with everything that I wrote, the only people who really seemed to appreciate it were country fans. That has to tell you a little bit about where your heartβs at, whether your head agrees with it or not!β
Born in Floydada, Florida in 1939 and growing up near Corpus Christi, Texas, Don was playing guitar by age twelve, taught by his mother, and performed in folk, country and rock bands as a teenager. He first gained musical attention as a member of the pop folk trio The Pozo Seco Singers, which had six pop chart hits in 1966-β67, then was signed as a songwriter by Nashvilleβs Cowboy Jack Clement in 1971βthe sort of songwriter whose demos demanded attention. Between 1974 and 1991, Don had at least one major hit every year, including such country standards to be as β Good Ole Boys Like Me,β βTill the Rivers All Run Dry,β βIt Must Be Love,β βIβm Just a Country Boy,β βAmandaβ and βI Believe in You.β He also had a hit duet with Emmylou Harris on Townes Van Zandtβs βIf I Needed You.β Don was the CMA Male Vocalist of the Year in 1978; his βTulsa Timeβ was the ACM Record of the Year for 1979.
In 2010, Don received country musicβs highest honor, with his induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame.
Don Williams died on 8 september 2017 after a short illness. He was 78 years old.
(2) Founder and owner of Mojuba & A.R.T.less Records and one half of the Tokomak Records company. He is the creative force behind these imprints and Tokomak's main founding member. His musical influences ranges from Classic, Funk and Jazz via Drum & Bass and Trip Hop to his beloved Detroit Techno and US House, which can be still enjoyed throughout his DJ-Sets. After a few releases on the legendary Pure Plastic imprint, he delivers tracks of his own brand of funk on labels like Rewired, Styrax Leaves and 100% Pure.
Desperately
Don Williams Lyrics
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This ole love struck soul
Just lives for the moment you're around
When I hold on to you
It is all I can do
Just to keep my feet on the ground
Desperately loving you desperately
I get a little bit crazy
Constantly I think about you constantly
Look at what you've done to me
I'm just like a little baby
Oh I love you desperately
Will I laugh will I cry
Will I live will I die
It all depends upon you
And it is dangerous I know
To be lost in you so
But I am and there's nothing I can do
Desperately loving you desperately
When you're not here with me
I get a little bit crazy
Constantly I think about you constantly
Look at what you've done to me
I'm just like a little baby
Oh I love you desperately
Desperately loving you desperately
When you're not here with me
I get a little bit crazy
Constantly I think about you constantly
Look at what you've done to me
I'm just like a little baby
Oh I love you desperately
The song "Desperately" by Don Williams is a love ballad that speaks about the intense love that the singer feels for his beloved. The song is a declaration of the singer's love and his inability to control his emotions when he is with his beloved. The opening lines, "My heart is out of control, This ole love-struck soul, Just lives for the moment you're around," perfectly encapsulate the emotions that the singer feels when he is with his beloved.
The singer confesses that he is in love with his beloved and that he cannot imagine his life without her. The lines "Will I laugh will I cry, Will I live will I die, It all depends upon you" demonstrate that the singer's happiness is completely dependent on his beloved. The singer is so deeply in love with his beloved that he feels like a little baby when he is not with her. The lines "Look at what you've done to me, I'm just like a little baby, Oh I love you desperately" express the singer's need for his beloved's affection.
Overall, the song "Desperately" by Don Williams is a touching love song that captures the all-consuming emotions of being in love. It is a beautiful reminder of how powerful and transformative love can be.
Line by Line Meaning
My heart is out of control
My emotions are uncontrollable due to the strong feelings I have towards you
This ole love struck soul
I am completely infatuated with you and my soul is consumed by this love
Just lives for the moment you're around
I only truly feel alive when I am in your presence
When I hold on to you
Physical touch with you is what gives me the most comfort
It is all I can do
My love for you is so overwhelming that it's hard to focus on anything else
Just to keep my feet on the ground
You help me stay grounded and balanced in my life
Desperately loving you desperately
I am in desperate need of your love and affection
When you're not here with me
I feel lost and incomplete without your presence
I get a little bit crazy
My feelings become overwhelming and I sometimes act out of character when you're not around
Constantly I think about you constantly
Thoughts of you consume my mind at all times
Look at what you've done to me
You have completely changed me as a person and have had a profound impact on my life
I'm just like a little baby
My emotions and reactions to you are almost childlike in nature
Oh I love you desperately
I cannot express enough how much I love and need you in my life
Will I laugh will I cry
My emotions and reactions depend solely on your presence in my life
Will I live will I die
My life and well-being is tied to our relationship
It all depends upon you
Your presence in my life influences everything that I do
And it is dangerous I know
I am aware of the risks of being so intensely in love with you
To be lost in you so
I can easily become completely lost in my love for you
But I am and there's nothing I can do
My love for you is beyond my control and I cannot help but feel this way
Lyrics Β© Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, RESERVOIR MEDIA MANAGEMENT INC
Written by: Douglas Harden Lubahn
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Teresa Trang Nguyen
Why I always cry listening his voice??? R.I.P. ! Why did you leave the Earth so early??? Always loving his voice !
Desperately
Don Williams
My heart is out of control
This ole love struck soul
Just lives for the moment you're around
When I hold on to you
It is all I can do
Just to keep my feet on the ground
Desperately loving you desperately
When you're not here with me
I get a little bit crazy
Constantly I think about you constantly
Look at what you've done to me
I'm just like a little baby
Oh I love you desperately
Will I laugh will I cry
Will I live will I die
It all depends upon you
And it is dangerous I know
To be lost in you so
But I am and there's nothing I can do
Desperately loving you desperately
When you're not here with me
I get a little bit crazy
Constantly I think about you constantly
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Phelix Odhiambo
Don Williams was a true legend. Who's agree with me?
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None disagrees with you
The Samburu Gem
None should β€οΈβ€οΈβ€οΈHe was a TRUE LEGEND
ELIJAH MTATUU
@phelix odhiambo _ I do fam.
Hawanatu Kabia
A true legend indeed,,his songs are always refreshing.
Nderitu Wachira
Yes he was a true legend
Amanda Kudzai Chizanga
i do not understand how someone can dislike such great music
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Mustafa Nizam
What a song, what a voice, what rhythm, what lyrics, what beats, keeps reverberating through my heart.
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Iβm so glad I had the honor of seeing this man in concert.