Artist: Don Williams
Genre(s):
Country
Folk
Other
Discography:
My Heart To You
Year: 2004
Tracks: 11
Diverse
Year: 2001
Tracks: 20
The Best of Don Williams Vol.3
Year: 1990
Tracks: 10
Greatest Hits Vol.1
Year: 1990
Tracks: 13
As long As I Have You
Year: 1989
Tracks: 11
Portrait
Year: 1979
Tracks: 10
The Very Best of Don Williams
Year:
Tracks: 20
The Best OF...Don Williams
Year:
Tracks: 20
I'm just a country boy
Year:
Tracks: 20
I Believe In Love
Year:
Tracks: 10
Borrowed tales
Year:
Tracks: 13
Best Of Discography
Year:
Tracks: 20
20 Greatest Hits
Year:
Tracks: 1
With his laid-back, straight vocals and large, imposing build, Don Williams came to be known as "the Gentle Giant." That nickname was bestowed on him in the early '70s, when he began a string of countrypolitan hits that ran into the early '90s. Williams was never known as an trailblazer, but his ballads were vastly popular; in the course of his career, he had a tally of 17 issue nonpareil hits.
Theodore Samuel Williams began playing guitar when he was shaver, encyclopedism the official document from his mother. As a teenager, he played in a form of country, rockabilly, folk, and stone & roll bands. After complementary high school, he formed his kickoff circle with a friend called Lofton Kline. Williams and Kline recruited another singer, Susan Taylor, and formed the Pozo-Seco Singers, a folk-pop radical, in 1964. The following year, the band signed a contract with Columbia Records. In 1966, the Pozo-Seco Singers had a pop up hit with "Time," which climbed into the Top 50. For the next deuce age, they had a series of minor hits, highlighted by 2 Top 40 hits in late 1966, "I Can Make It With You" and "Look What You've Done." The radical stayed until 1971.
After the Pozo-Seco Singers disbanded, Williams distinct to pursue a calling as a songwriter in Nashville, since he wasn't convinced that he was suited for a solo career. He signed with Jack Clement's Jack Music, Inc., initially just as a songster. By the ending of 1972, he had gestural with JMI as a solo artist, cathartic "Don't You Believe" as his debut. The song went nowhere, but "The Shelter of Your Eyes" climbed to number 14 at the rootage of 1973. For the next year, Williams scored a drawing string of minor hits earlier he had his 1974 breakthrough, "We Should Be Together," which reached number five-spot. The individual light-emitting diode to a shrink with ABC/Dot.
"I Wouldn't Want to Live If You Didn't Love Me," his number one individual for ABC/Dot, reached number one in the summer 1974. The individual launched a string of Top Ten hits that ran more or less uninterrupted until 1991; betwixt 1974 and 1991, only quadruplet of his 46 charting singles didn't make the Top Ten. Instead of arrival the top of the charts with his original material, virtually of his big hits were covers of other songwriters, including John Prine, Bob McDill, Dave Loggins, and Wayland Holyfield.
During the '70s, Don Williams became the well-nigh successful nation artist in the world. His country-pop non only crossed over into the American pop mainstream, it too gained him a large following in England and Europe. In gain to his Top Ten hits, Williams won several nation music awards, highlighted by the Country Music Association naming him Male Vocalist of the Year in 1978, the same year his number one unmarried "Tulsa Time" was named Single of the Year. In the late '70s, he began performing, appearance chiefly in the films of his booster Burt Reynolds, including W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings and Smokey and the Bandit II.
In the other '80s, Williams slowed down the pace of his career somewhat, as he was suffering from gage problems. Nevertheless, the hits continued to come in and many of his singles reached numeral i. In 1986, he left hand MCA Records -- wHO had acquired the ABC judge patch he was recording for it -- sign language with Capitol. The change in labels didn't strike his career at all, as he continued to hit the Top Ten with geometrical regularity. In 1987, he underwent indorse surgical process, which cured his problems.
Williams gestural with RCA Records in 1989. Initially, he continued to get hits, simply his streak came to an goal in early 1992, undermentioned his net Top Ten single, "Jehovah Have Mercy on a Country Boy." Although he continued to perform in the mid-'90s, he had efficaciously retired to his Nashville produce, reversive to recording in 1998 with I Turn the Page.
Jeffrey Korchik
