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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 āthe Gentle Giantā 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 alikeācutting across national and genre boundaries. If those personal and musical qualities stood out strongly across the 1970s, ā80s and ā90s, they are all the more distinctive in 2012, when so many country and pop records seem to work as check off lists of somebodyās 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 heād traded songsāāTulsa Time,ā āLay Down Sallyā) 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 heās done to maintain that strength over the hiatus.
āWell, there are things that I donāt do,ā Don laughs. āI donāt do a whole lot of sitting around chit-chatting, laughing, and carrying onāespecially when Iām 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.ā
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.
āThe weird thing about that isāno; I donāt 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 youāre talking about different cultures, sometimes different languages, and the whole nine yards.ā
The hundreds of memorable songs in that repertoireāover fifty of them major hitsāwhether 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 skillsāskills well put to shared use again when Nashvilleās finest writers submitted hundreds of songs for consideration for Donās return to recording. They both knew what they were looking for in selections that would appear on And So It Goes:
āTheyāre very well written, theyāre interesting, and the melody and the lyric are saying the same thing,ā Don says. āEven when weāre 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 othersā in the process. For many years, though, Garth has fussed at me about one thingā 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 Iāve just heard than I do my own material!ā (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 smashāa development that was initially a surprise even to him.
āWhen I was just a wee lad,ā he recalls, āI 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 āin popā 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 heartās at, whether your head agrees with it or not!ā
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-ā67, then was signed as a songwriter by Nashvilleās Cowboy Jack Clement in 1971āthe 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 ā Good Ole Boys Like Me,ā āTill the Rivers All Run Dry,ā āIt Must Be Love,ā āIām Just a Country Boy,ā āAmandaā and āI Believe in You.ā He also had a hit duet with Emmylou Harris on Townes Van Zandtās āIf I Needed You.ā Don was the CMA Male Vocalist of the Year in 1978; his āTulsa Timeā was the ACM Record of the Year for 1979.
In 2010, Don received country musicās 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 āthe Gentle Giantā 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 alikeācutting across national and genre boundaries. If those personal and musical qualities stood out strongly across the 1970s, ā80s and ā90s, they are all the more distinctive in 2012, when so many country and pop records seem to work as check off lists of somebodyās 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 heād traded songsāāTulsa Time,ā āLay Down Sallyā) 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 heās done to maintain that strength over the hiatus.
āWell, there are things that I donāt do,ā Don laughs. āI donāt do a whole lot of sitting around chit-chatting, laughing, and carrying onāespecially when Iām 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.ā
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.
āThe weird thing about that isāno; I donāt 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 youāre talking about different cultures, sometimes different languages, and the whole nine yards.ā
The hundreds of memorable songs in that repertoireāover fifty of them major hitsāwhether 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 skillsāskills well put to shared use again when Nashvilleās finest writers submitted hundreds of songs for consideration for Donās return to recording. They both knew what they were looking for in selections that would appear on And So It Goes:
āTheyāre very well written, theyāre interesting, and the melody and the lyric are saying the same thing,ā Don says. āEven when weāre 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 othersā in the process. For many years, though, Garth has fussed at me about one thingā 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 Iāve just heard than I do my own material!ā (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 smashāa development that was initially a surprise even to him.
āWhen I was just a wee lad,ā he recalls, āI 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 āin popā 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 heartās at, whether your head agrees with it or not!ā
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-ā67, then was signed as a songwriter by Nashvilleās Cowboy Jack Clement in 1971āthe 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 ā Good Ole Boys Like Me,ā āTill the Rivers All Run Dry,ā āIt Must Be Love,ā āIām Just a Country Boy,ā āAmandaā and āI Believe in You.ā He also had a hit duet with Emmylou Harris on Townes Van Zandtās āIf I Needed You.ā Don was the CMA Male Vocalist of the Year in 1978; his āTulsa Timeā was the ACM Record of the Year for 1979.
In 2010, Don received country musicās 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.
Woman You Should Be in Movies
Don Williams Lyrics
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you said i was all you ever needed
it was me that kept your spirits high
well you're the only one who's ever fooled me
you broke my heart without me knowing why
woman, you should be in movies
acting out some real important parts
woman, you should be in movies
instead of breaking real peoples' hearts
love felt so alive when i was with you
inside me you made a place still warm
well, you should win a price for 'way you hurt
cos there appears another loser's born
woman, you should be in movies
acting out some real important parts
woman, you should be in movies
instead of breaking real peoples' hearts
it was me that kept your spirits high
well you're the only one who's ever fooled me
you broke my heart without me knowing why
woman, you should be in movies
acting out some real important parts
woman, you should be in movies
instead of breaking real peoples' hearts
inside me you made a place still warm
well, you should win a price for 'way you hurt
cos there appears another loser's born
woman, you should be in movies
acting out some real important parts
woman, you should be in movies
instead of breaking real peoples' hearts
In Don Williams's song "Woman You Should Be in Movies," the singer addresses a woman who has deceived him. He believed her when she said he was all she ever needed and that he kept her spirits high, but now he realizes that she has broken his heart without him knowing why. The singer suggests that this woman should be in movies acting out important parts, because she has clearly mastered the art of deception and heartbreak.
Despite the pain she has caused him, the singer acknowledges that being with this woman made him feel alive and that she held a special place in his heart. However, he also points out that she should be awarded a prize for the way she has hurt him, because now there is another "loser" in the world as a result of her actions.
Overall, the lyrics of "Woman You Should Be in Movies" convey a sense of disillusionment and betrayal in a romantic relationship. The singer's sense of hurt and confusion is palpable, and the suggestion that the woman in question would make a great actress adds an interesting layer to the song.
Line by Line Meaning
you said i was all you ever needed
You promised that I was enough for you to be happy in our relationship.
it was me that kept your spirits high
I believed that I was responsible for making you feel happy and fulfilled.
well you're the only one who's ever fooled me
I trusted you completely and did not realize that you were deceiving me.
you broke my heart without me knowing why
You hurt me so deeply, and I still don't understand what I did to deserve it.
woman, you should be in movies
Your behavior is so dramatic and manipulative that you should be an actress.
acting out some real important parts
You could play a convincing role in portraying someone important, but instead you choose to hurt others.
woman, you should be in movies
Your behavior is so extreme that it belongs in a fictional story, not real life.
instead of breaking real peoples' hearts
Rather than causing genuine emotional pain to those who care about you.
love felt so alive when i was with you
When we were together, I felt deeply in love with you and cherished our relationship.
inside me you made a place still warm
Even though you hurt me, I still have warm memories of the love we shared.
well, you should win a price for 'way you hurt
Your method of inflicting emotional pain is so effective, it's almost like an award-winning performance.
cos there appears another loser's born
Your actions have consequences, and you are causing others to experience the pain of loss and rejection.
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Don Williams' music is to the soul what water is to thirst.
Mutahi Kahiga
Don Williams,You remain my no one country singer. May you rest in eternal peace.
Darlene Sauls
Hope these are just words. Nobody should ever break heart š
Mary Valentine
I love š ur music so bad Don š¤©š I wish I could tell u ur the best sleep on beloved u did ur best on earth šā¤ļø to make us happy, warm n close to u that we could never forget u....š¢
Iho Pissulyajnen
Don is the best
kuteesa denis
This song reminds of some girl who ghosted me. It was too terrible on me in that I ended up in a rehabilitation center.
Victoria Ohlendorf
Is someone jealous around? Well, it's my country music and I will keep it alive... VPO.. TY!
Mark Williams
Don Williams is the greatest country singer in the world I would love too know if I can get these songs from sumwere????
Mutahi Kahiga
They are on I tunes
Victoria Ohlendorf
Ich bin nicht nur in den movie, auch in meinen echten unfassbaren erlebnis... VPO.. TY!