Stu's single records to date have been like appetizers before a big feast. They've whetted a hunger among listeners all over the United States to hear a whole albumful of what Stu can do. If I've come close to succeeding in my job of advising him what to record, this album should be a regular banquet of ballads. Stu is from Montreal originally, and the Canadian RCA Victor people were responsible for sending him to record in our Nashville studios a while back. However, what he was to do here was to be released only in Canada, as all of his past records had been. Well, I heard him very much by chance. I can't resist the opportunity to stop by the control room for a look and a listen anytime I know there's studio activity. And it was on just such a little-wonder-what's-happening-back-there stroll that Stu fascinated me by his possibilities. The result was that Canadian Victor was persuaded to share him with all the rest of North America. The variety of this album's contests is wide. It stretches all the way from the storying-song about a bandito named The Great El Tigre to the foot-shuffling beat and clever lyrics of Some Of Me to a folk-flavored Ask You Will Recieve. And I'm proud of the extraordinary effort which went into the arrangement framing Stu's impressive approach to a song... such as in That's The Chance I'll Have To Take. To all stateside folks, this album is the first full-fledged introduction to Stu Phillips; to Canadians, it's more like a special sort of get-together with an old, old friend. To everybody, everywhere, the album is twelve different demonstrations of a talent whose future surely will be great fame, worldwide. - Chet Atkins -
STU PHILLIPS
SINGIN'
RCA Victor LSP-3619August/1966
Produced by Chet Atkins & Bob Ferguson
Recorded:1965-1966, RCA Victor Studio, Nashville
1.
BRACERO
(Leon Payne) « © '66 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »(Bracero Bracero don't need you no more)
In old California the border guards warn ya that work permits really come dear
In old Arizona they say they don't wanna a big bunch of Braceros this year
Down in Laredo they say they're afraid no work in Lubbock or Abilene
Not mucho dinero for you poor Bracero they're pickin' it with a machine
Bracero Bracero the cotton is white
You're not up there pickin' well it just don't seem right
Machine's have brought starvation close to your door
Bracero Bracero don't need you no more
They tell us in West Dakota they think it's best we go to Chicago or Des Moines
They say the meat packers might use some wetbackers who eat chili to buy them sirloin
They tell us at Brownsville if we hang around we'll
Find out that they sure can get mean
Not much dinero for your poor Bracero they're pickin' it with a machine
Bracero Bracero the cotton is white...
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2.
KATHY KEEP PLAYING
(Steve Karliski - Larry Kolber) « © '65 Screen Gems Music, BMI »(Kathy keep playing Mary's Little Lamb)
I only see you every other weekend
And even then it's just an hour or so
Your mama said you took to the piano
And she said you'd play for me before I go
Kathy keep playing Mary's Little Lamb
Tears are in my eyes that's how proud I am
Kathy keep playing and play it nice and slow
Cause when you're through your daddy's gotta go
With each mistake you make on the piano
I think of my mistakes that I've made too
If only I had made your mama happy
Then I wouldn't have to leave when you get through
Kathy keep playing Mary's Little Lamb...
Kathy keep playing (Mary's Little Lamb)
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3.
ASK AND YOU WILL RECEIVE
(Stu Phillips) « © '65 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »Ask and you will receive seek and you will find
But I've been wasting for lifetime waiting for her to make up her mind
I walked with her talked with her the hours just pass away
But when I lay an arm round her shoulder somehow she just turns away
(Ask and you will receive seek and you will find)
But I've been wasting for lifetime waiting for her to make up her mind
(I walked with her) I walked with her (talked with her) yes I talked with her
The hours just pass away
But when I lay an arm round her shoulder somehow she just turns away
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4.
CRYSTAL CHANDELIERS
(Ted Harris) « © '65 Plainspoken Music, ASCAP »Oh the crystal chandeliers light up the paintings on your wall
The marble statuettes are standing stately in you hall
But will the timely crowd that has you laughing loud help you dry your tears
When the new wears off of your crystal chandeliers
I never did fit in too well with folks you knew
It was plain to see that the likes of me don't fit with you
Cause you traded me for the gaiety of the well to do
And turned away from the love I offered you
Oh the crystal chandeliers...
I see your picture in the papers most every day
You're the chosen girl of the social world so the stories say
Oh but a paper smile only lasts a while then it fades away
And the love we knew will come back to you some day
Oh the crystal chandeliers...
(Crystal chandeliers crystal chandeliers)
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5.
THAT'S THE CHANCE I'LL HAVE TO TAKE
(Waylon Jennings) « © '65 Tree Publishing, BMI »Trouble and a worried mind it seems that's all I've ever known
But I'll leave that all behind if you'll just let me alone
And if I go on loving you if to leave is a mistake
If I'm wrong in what I do that's the chance I'll have to take
[ cello ] Don't bother now to waste the time saying things you've said before
I've heard it all a hundred times but I won't listen anymore
And if I go on loving you...
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6.
SOME OF ME
(Stu Phillips) « © '66 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »Some of me sleeps yeah some of me weeps some of me's feeling blue
Some of me flirts yeah some of me hurts some of me still loves you
Words leave my heart but fall unspoken my lips won't talk to anyone new
They still recall one little token a parting kiss that said I still love you
Some of me sleeps...
(Some of me still loves you)
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7.
GREAT EL TIGRE (THE TIGER)
(Cy Coben) « © '66 Delmore Music, ASCAP »Can that be the great El Tigre sitting there
That gray haired old man on the bench in the village square
Could he be that famous bandit of days gone by
Can he be the fierce El Tigre or did the real El Tigre die
He'll be remembered forever more
By the rich that he stole from and the poor he stole for
He once met a senorita on a raid
Sweet little Juanita who smiled up at him unafraid
And eyes hard as steel softened up at the sight that they saw
And love found a heart no bullet had been able to find before
Though he was a bandido with a price on his head
Te amo querida take me with you she said
[ trumpet ] Can that be the great El Tigre sitting there
That old man asleep on the bench in the village square
And as he dreams a sweet old senora appears
And then as she gently wakes him she whispers into his ear
Querida mia the time it has flown
Vamanos mi bandido it's time we went home
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8.
THINK I'LL GO SOMEWHERE AND CRY MYSELF TO SLEEP
(Bill Anderson) « © '65 Johnny Bienstock Music, BMI »(Think I'll go somewhere and cry myself to sleep)
I just kissed the one I love for the last time
Never have her soft lips been so sweet
She's gone away and won't be back forever
Think I'll go somewhere and cry myself to sleep
I'll go somewhere and cry myself to sleep
Not because I'm sad but cause I'm weak
I can't stand the thought of life alone without her
Think I'll go somewhere and cry myself to sleep
Just before she said goodbye she called me darling
And slowly ran her fingers down my cheek
I thought I'd die when she said she still love me
Think I'll go somewhere and cry myself to sleep
I'll go somewhere and cry myself to sleep...
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9.
ANOTHER DAY HAS GONE
(Stu Phillips) « © '66 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »Another day has gone and I'll go home
I must learn to face the future all alone
Another day has gone and you won't call
It seems you haven't any heart at all
Another night grows near making me blue
Someone said you've found somebody new
Another day has gone is this the end
Or will you come back and love me once again
[ strings ] Another day has gone is this the end
Or will you come back and love me once again
(Another day has gone)
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10.
OLD FRENCH QUARTER
(Cindy Walker) « © '66 Matamoros Music, BMI »In the old French Quarter in New Orleans
In my dreams I walk once more with my darling
In the jazzmen sentent nights neath the misty old lamplights
In the old French Quarter in New Orleans
When I left she held me tight and told me
Not to stay away too long because she loved me
And the silent teardrops fell as we kissed and said farewell
To the old French Quarter in New Orleans
The summer turned to winter and when springtime came
I returned and learned that things were not the same
As I said goodbye to old New Orleans
I could see the church bells ringing for my darling
And I slowly walked away but I knew my heart would stay
In the old French Quarter in New Orleans
In the old French Quarter in New Orleans
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11.
I WILL
(Dick Glasser) « © '63 Ridgeway Music, BMI »I don't want to be the one to say I'm gonna miss you but I will
I don't wanna say I'm gonna cry my eyes out baby but I will
I'm not ashamed for you to know how much I really love you so
Cause it was such a thrill
Just remember when you're gone there'll be that someone sad who loves you still
You will look at him and see me smiling back at you I know you will
You will find yourself repeating things we used to do I know you will
Don't wonder if you wanna come back just got running home to me
And let me feel that thrill
Cause I'm the one who told I would love you dear forever and I will
[ trumpet ] Don't wonder if you wanna...
I'm the one who told I would love you dear forever and I will
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12.
FOUR STRONG WINDS
(Ian Tyson) « © '63 WB Music, ASCAP »Four strong winds that blow lonely seven seas that run high
All these things that don't change come what may
But my good times are all gone and I'm bound for moving on
I'll look for you if I'm ever back this way
I may go out to Alberta weather's good there in the fall
Got some friends that I could go to workin' for
Still I wish you'd change your mind if I asked you one more time
But we've been through that a hundred times or more
[ guitar ] If I get there before the snow flies and things are looking good
You could meet me if I sent you down the fare
But if we'll wait until it's winter it would do no good
For the winds sure can blow cold way out there
Four strong winds that blow lonely...
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