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"Fraulein" is a 1957 song written by Lawton Williams and sung by Bobby Helms. Released by Decca Records that year, "Fraulein" was Helms's debut single on the U.S. country chart, reaching #1 for four weeks and staying on chart for 52 weeks, the sixth longest song in country music history to spend over 50 weeks on the country singles chart.
"I'll Always Be Your Fraulein" was an answer song to "Fraulein", co-written with Roy Botkin and Wally Jarvis, reaching No. 10 on the country charts in 1961 for Kitty Wells. He also wrote "Shame On Me", which in 1962 was the first song by Bobby Bare to reach the country charts.
His song "Jingle Bell Rock", which was released in the late fall of 1957, produced by Paul Cohen [6] was a big hit [7] and was being played and danced to on Dick Clark's teen dance show American Bandstand by mid-December of that year. It also re-emerged in four out of the next five years, and sold so well that it repeated each time as a top hit ...
"Jingle Bell Rock" does sound more like subsequent songs credited to either Helms or Garland than it does "Unsuspecting Heart," an old-fashioned, pre-rock pop number released by Terri Stevens in ...
"Color of the Blues" is considered one of Jones' greatest earlier works, and he often performed it live during the late 1950s. According to Rich Kienzle's liner notes of the 1994 Song retrospective The Essential George Jones: The Spirit of Country, Lawton Williams (who had composed Bobby Helms' 1957 honky-tonk smash "Fraulein") wrote the lyrics while Jones came up with the melody and title.
Earle wrote the song "Fort Worth Blues" as a tribute to the singer in the late 1990s, and in 2009 released an album titled Townes, which featured all covers of Van Zandt songs. [ 52 ] His Texas-grounded impact stretched farther than country.
The latter song had been written by Kander and Ebb for the unproduced musical Golden Gate. [68] The later 1987 and 1998 Broadway revivals also added new songs such as "I Don't Care Much". [ 69 ] In the 1987 revival, Kander and Ebb wrote a new song for Cliff titled "Don't Go". [ 70 ]
The producers originally envisioned a non-musical play that would be written by Lindsay and Crouse and that would feature songs from the repertoire of the Trapp Family Singers. Then they decided to add an original song or two, perhaps by Rodgers and Hammerstein. But it was soon agreed that the project should feature all new songs and be a ...