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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 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.
(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.
You're the Only One
Don Williams Lyrics
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You're the only one that's ever understood
You're the only one that makes the bad times good
You're the only one that helps me make that extra mile
You're the only one that heals me with your smile.
And I smile to think you love me
And to feel you need me too
As for me I know where I'll be
I'll be where I'm loving you.
You're the only one that's ever understood
You're the only one that makes the bad times good
You're the only one that helps me make that extra mile
You're the only one that heals me with your smile.
--- Instrumental ---
Oh, I'd die if you should leave me
Here alone I'd be so blue
So believe me when I tell you
That my life is loving you.
You're the only one that's ever understood
You're the only one that makes the bad times good
You're the only one that helps me make that extra mile
You're the only one that heals me with your smile.
You're the only one that helps me make that extra mile
You're the only one that heals me with your smile...
You're the only one that makes the bad times good
You're the only one that helps me make that extra mile
You're the only one that heals me with your smile.
And I smile to think you love me
And to feel you need me too
As for me I know where I'll be
You're the only one that's ever understood
You're the only one that makes the bad times good
You're the only one that helps me make that extra mile
You're the only one that heals me with your smile.
--- Instrumental ---
Oh, I'd die if you should leave me
Here alone I'd be so blue
So believe me when I tell you
That my life is loving you.
You're the only one that's ever understood
You're the only one that makes the bad times good
You're the only one that helps me make that extra mile
You're the only one that heals me with your smile.
You're the only one that helps me make that extra mile
You're the only one that heals me with your smile...
The lyrics to Don Williams's song "You're the Only One" express gratitude and love for one special person who is the only one that truly understands and supports the singer. The song emphasizes the unique bond and deep connection the singer has with this person, who has the ability to make even the difficult times seem better. The line "You're the only one that heals me with your smile" suggests that the person has a profound positive impact on the singer's life.
The instrumental section allows the listener to pause and reflect on the sentiments expressed in the lyrics. When the song resumes, the singer expresses how important this person is to them, stating that they would be devastated if the person were to leave them. They emphasize that their entire life revolves around loving this person.
Overall, the lyrics to "You're the Only One" convey a sense of deep love, gratitude, and dependency on a specific person who brings immense joy and support to the singer's life.
Line by Line Meaning
You're the only one that's ever understood
Out of all the people I've met, you're the only one who truly gets me and understands me.
You're the only one that makes the bad times good
Even when life gets tough and everything seems to be going wrong, you're the only one who can turn those bad times into good ones for me.
You're the only one that helps me make that extra mile
When I need someone to support and encourage me to go further and achieve more, you're the only one who can provide that extra push.
You're the only one that heals me with your smile.
No matter how down or upset I am, your smile has the power to make me feel better and heal my pain.
And I smile to think you love me
The thought of you loving me brings a smile to my face.
And to feel you need me too
The fact that you also need me in your life makes me feel even happier and more fulfilled.
As for me I know where I'll be
When it comes to my future, I know that I want to be with you.
I'll be where I'm loving you.
My ultimate goal is to spend the rest of my life loving you and being by your side.
Oh, I'd die if you should leave me
The thought of you not being in my life is almost unbearable and would make me feel like I'm dead inside.
Here alone I'd be so blue
Being alone without you would make me feel very sad and lonely.
So believe me when I tell you
Please trust and have faith in me when I say:
That my life is loving you.
I want you to know that my entire life revolves around loving and cherishing you.
You're the only one that helps me make that extra mile
When I need someone to support and encourage me to go further and achieve more, you're the only one who can provide that extra push.
You're the only one that heals me with your smile.
No matter how down or upset I am, your smile has the power to make me feel better and heal my pain.
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Miguelina Mencia
Beautiful song..our unforgettable Don Williams. RIP
Darlene Sauls
Such a loving song!!
William Herron
Love hearing Don Williams sing
Pj
Beautiful song!
JosΓ© Kalil Salles
Γtima mΓΊsica country. Excelente desempenho do cantor.
trish Joan
I have listened to Don all my life. It is heart breaking that he is gone. His mellow voice often made my down days seem brighter. God bless you and keep you my dear friend
Mel_Ann
Gorgeous Don Williams song π
Huguette17
What a beautiful song, I love to listen to Don Williams, he's great, Β thanks
Alex Muller
Cute
Rita Paul
Every song he sung is beautiful
RIP well continue listening your great voice and songs.