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(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 âthe Gentle Giantâ 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 alikeâcutting across national and genre boundaries. If those personal and musical qualities stood out strongly across the 1970s, â80s and â90s, they are all the more distinctive in 2012, when so many country and pop records seem to work as check off lists of somebodyâs 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 heâd traded songsââTulsa Time,â âLay Down Sallyâ) 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 heâs done to maintain that strength over the hiatus.
âWell, there are things that I donât do,â Don laughs. âI donât do a whole lot of sitting around chit-chatting, laughing, and carrying onâespecially when Iâm 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.â
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.
âThe weird thing about that isâno; I donât 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 youâre talking about different cultures, sometimes different languages, and the whole nine yards.â
The hundreds of memorable songs in that repertoireâover fifty of them major hitsâwhether 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 skillsâskills well put to shared use again when Nashvilleâs finest writers submitted hundreds of songs for consideration for Donâs return to recording. They both knew what they were looking for in selections that would appear on And So It Goes:
âTheyâre very well written, theyâre interesting, and the melody and the lyric are saying the same thing,â Don says. âEven when weâre 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 othersâ in the process. For many years, though, Garth has fussed at me about one thingâ 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 Iâve just heard than I do my own material!â (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 smashâa development that was initially a surprise even to him.
âWhen I was just a wee lad,â he recalls, âI 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 âin popâ 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 heartâs at, whether your head agrees with it or not!â
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-â67, then was signed as a songwriter by Nashvilleâs Cowboy Jack Clement in 1971âthe 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 â Good Ole Boys Like Me,â âTill the Rivers All Run Dry,â âIt Must Be Love,â âIâm Just a Country Boy,â âAmandaâ and âI Believe in You.â He also had a hit duet with Emmylou Harris on Townes Van Zandtâs âIf I Needed You.â Don was the CMA Male Vocalist of the Year in 1978; his âTulsa Timeâ was the ACM Record of the Year for 1979.
In 2010, Don received country musicâs 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.
(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 âthe Gentle Giantâ 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 alikeâcutting across national and genre boundaries. If those personal and musical qualities stood out strongly across the 1970s, â80s and â90s, they are all the more distinctive in 2012, when so many country and pop records seem to work as check off lists of somebodyâs 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 heâd traded songsââTulsa Time,â âLay Down Sallyâ) 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 heâs done to maintain that strength over the hiatus.
âWell, there are things that I donât do,â Don laughs. âI donât do a whole lot of sitting around chit-chatting, laughing, and carrying onâespecially when Iâm 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.â
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.
âThe weird thing about that isâno; I donât 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 youâre talking about different cultures, sometimes different languages, and the whole nine yards.â
The hundreds of memorable songs in that repertoireâover fifty of them major hitsâwhether 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 skillsâskills well put to shared use again when Nashvilleâs finest writers submitted hundreds of songs for consideration for Donâs return to recording. They both knew what they were looking for in selections that would appear on And So It Goes:
âTheyâre very well written, theyâre interesting, and the melody and the lyric are saying the same thing,â Don says. âEven when weâre 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 othersâ in the process. For many years, though, Garth has fussed at me about one thingâ 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 Iâve just heard than I do my own material!â (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 smashâa development that was initially a surprise even to him.
âWhen I was just a wee lad,â he recalls, âI 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 âin popâ 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 heartâs at, whether your head agrees with it or not!â
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-â67, then was signed as a songwriter by Nashvilleâs Cowboy Jack Clement in 1971âthe 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 â Good Ole Boys Like Me,â âTill the Rivers All Run Dry,â âIt Must Be Love,â âIâm Just a Country Boy,â âAmandaâ and âI Believe in You.â He also had a hit duet with Emmylou Harris on Townes Van Zandtâs âIf I Needed You.â Don was the CMA Male Vocalist of the Year in 1978; his âTulsa Timeâ was the ACM Record of the Year for 1979.
In 2010, Don received country musicâs 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.
Love Me Over Again
Don Williams Lyrics
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Likely as not, there's been better weather
I feel real sure there's been better times.
Right here tonight, with you all around me
I'm so glad right now is mine.
So honey, tonight, make it alright.
Turn on your smile for me for a while
Take me away from where I have been.
I know you love me,
But love me over again.
You have the way of filling my emotions
Till there's not a word left in my mind.
Times get so hard, so confusing
You make now a so-much better time.
So honey, tonight, make it alright.
Turn on your smile for me for a while
Take me away from where I have been.
I know you love me,
But love me over again.
So honey, tonight, make it alright.
Turn on your smile for me for a while
Take me away from where I have been.
I know you love me,
But love me over again.
I feel real sure there's been better times.
Right here tonight, with you all around me
I'm so glad right now is mine.
So honey, tonight, make it alright.
Turn on your smile for me for a while
Take me away from where I have been.
But love me over again.
You have the way of filling my emotions
Till there's not a word left in my mind.
Times get so hard, so confusing
You make now a so-much better time.
So honey, tonight, make it alright.
Turn on your smile for me for a while
Take me away from where I have been.
I know you love me,
But love me over again.
So honey, tonight, make it alright.
Turn on your smile for me for a while
Take me away from where I have been.
I know you love me,
But love me over again.
In "Love Me Over Again," Don Williams works to reconnect with his lover, acknowledging that life hasn't always been easy, and there have been better times. Despite this, he cherishes the moment and feels grateful to have their company. He begs his partner to turn on her smile and take him away from the troubles of the past, to love him over again. Don Williams emphasizes on how she has a unique way of filling his emotions in a way that there are no words left in his mind that can describe it; she makes everything complicated seem effortless. He recognizes that life can be hard, but her presence can make it better. He acknowledges the love they have shared but wants her to do it again, to rekindle the spark, and make him feel loved once again.
Line by Line Meaning
Likely as not, there's been better weather
It's possible that things have been better in the past
I feel real sure there's been better times.
I am confident that there have been better days in the past
Right here tonight, with you all around me
Being with you in this moment is comforting and pleasant
I'm so glad right now is mine.
I am happy that I get to spend this time with you
So honey, tonight, make it alright.
Please make this evening enjoyable
Turn on your smile for me for a while
Please smile, it brightens my mood
Take me away from where I have been.
Help me forget my troubles for a little while
I know you love me,
I am aware that you care for me
But love me over again.
Please show me your affection and love once more
You have the way of filling my emotions
Being with you causes me to feel a range of emotions
Till there's not a word left in my mind.
You have such a profound effect on me that I am left speechless
Times get so hard, so confusing
Life can be difficult and overwhelming at times
You make now a so-much better time.
Being with you in the present moment makes everything seem better
Lyrics Š Universal Music Publishing Group, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
Written by: DONALD R. WILLIAMS
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Pondy Hsu
Likely as not, there's been better weather
I feel real sure, there's been better times
Right here tonight with you all around me
I'm so glad right now is mine.
Honey, tonight make it alright
Turn on your smile for me for a while
Take me away from where I have been
I know you love me but love me over again.
*********************
You have the way to fill my emotions
Till there's not a word left in my mind
Times get so hard, so confusing
You make now a so much better time.
So honey tonight, make it alright
Turn on your smile for me for a while
Take me away from where I have been
I know you love me but love me over again.
Yeah, honey tonight, make it alright
Turn on your smile for me for a while
Take me away from where I have been
I know you love me but love me over again.....
Donnie White
God bless you Don, thanks for all your time and awesome music.
Venita Banerjee
Just the music & songs I love ...Don's voice is so very soothing ....could listen to him non stop .
Nupuii Chhangte
Can't get bored of his songsđĽ°
Dan Ebasa
The way he says it, "I know you love me but love me over again". MAGIC!
No so many would want to sing this as this version is just platinum.
GrindfreakMike
i heard this song as a young teenager who was into country music as my dad liked country music, to me this is what country music is , love this song, smooth ,mello, just right
Trevor Fraser
The best of the best. What a soothing, comforting voice and style.
Big Watt
I'm with you Trevor, I don't care where your from or what you look like good music touches you're soul and fillo you're heart with good vibe.
Austin Fxtrader
I love those songs it brings back memories of love đĽâ¤ď¸....
ab deton
I love and miss you Don. You are the greatest country singer ever and one hell of a songwriter!
Pearl Benedict
say it again