lp discography - covers & lyrics

This big man with the big voice who calls himself Dave Dudley is easily one of the fastest rising stars on the country music horizon. But Dave's rise to fame and fortune has not been an overnight sort of thing. Like some of the satellites that now orbit our planet it took many years of trying and failing, but always trying again. Not once did he sincerely entertain the idea of quitting though many times he may have felt like it. As he says, "It took me almost fifteen years to get ix Days On The Road! Now Mr. Dudley and his band, the Roadrunners, spend most all their time on the road filling personal appearance engagements and playing for dances all over these United States and Canada. And from the looks of his schedule he'll be busy for a long time to come. Although Dave's first big hit was the novelty type song, Six Days On The Road, he is a tremendous ballad singer. Sometimes a singer gets 'typed' as a novelty song artist and people tend not to accept him as a ballad singer. Fortunately, this has not neen true in Dave's case. Credit for this must go, in part, to Mercury's A & R Director Shelby Singleton who recognized in Dave's voice the deep, sincere quality that could sell a great ballad. It was Shelby who made the statement during one of Dave's early Mercury sessions, that, "this man could develop into a great ballad singer." This album, we feel, proves that point. Here he has a chance to show what he can do with some of the great country standards and a few new ones that could easily become favorites. The 'eternal triangle' is probably the subject for more songs than any other. As the old saying goes, "the chains of love sometime get so heavy it takes three to bear them!" And of course when things like that begin to happen, whether you're in city the size of New York or a small community with a general store and service station, you immediately become The Talk Of The Town! Thus, our album title. And the songs herein deal very closelywith the situation. The titles themselves pretty well the story. There's the old favorite, Slipping Around, the Roy Drusky hit, Three Hearts In A Tangle, Don Robertson's Please Help Me I'm Falling, some newer ones such as, If You're Afraid To Tell Him I Will, A Short Memory, Hiding Behind The Curtain, One Has My Name The Other Has My Heart (one of the all time favorites), the title song Talk Of The Town, and others. All in all it pretty well covers the field of wandering lovers who want to have their cake and eat, too! No one can accurately predict just how far any one man can go in his chosen profession. We can only speculate. But, even speculation must have some basis. Dave Dudley's past performances, his attitude toward the industry and his love for singing gives us all the reason we need to speculate that he will go long and far as a country entertainer. As we said, he is doing what he loves to do - sing! And we firmly believe that after you listen to this album you will join us in saing, "I love to hear him do what he loves to do - sing!"

DAVE DUDLEY

TALK OF THE TOWN