January 26, 2012

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Don Williams (* May 27 1939 in Floydada , Texas ) is an American country singer.
Don Williams began playing guitar as a child. With Lofton Kline and Susan Taylor, the band he founded in 1964 Pozo-Seco Singers , who played a mix of folk and pop. A year later she had with Time first hit. After a few more minor successes, the group broke up 1971st.
Don Williams initially returned to Texas. Susan Taylor, meanwhile, tried a solo career, and Williams went to Nashville , to assist them in producing their first album. For a time he worked for Jack Clement, the producer of Susan Taylor, as a songwriter. In 1973, he played one in his own Label Album: Don Williams, Volume II . A recently released first single sold poorly, but already his second, The Shelter Of Your Eyes was able to place themselves in the country charts. In 1975 he reached with We Should Be Together position 5
The tall Texan – the "Gentle Giant" – had made ​​the breakthrough.
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With his warm, deep voice, he opened up a following that extended far beyond the country music scene. Only a few sold in the seventies, more records than he. Don Williams filled the gap left by the untimely death of Jim Reeves had torn. With songs like Amanda (1973), Some Broken Hearts Never Mend (1977), Tulsa Time (1978) or I Believe In You (1980), he conquered global leadership positions in the charts. He was particularly effective in England, where he led the 1978 albums-seller lists in 1976 and I Recall A Gipsy Woman had a hit single (in the U.S. was Tommy Cash successful with this song). In 1978 he won the CMA Awards Country Vocalist Of The Year . In the same year he met with Eric Clapton , who described himself as a Don Williams fan at a concert. Before the show played Williams the blues man earlier this month by Danny Flowers wrote title Tulsa Time before and Clapton was so excited that they the song a little later in the studio grossed. Tulsa Time reached the top position of the U.S. country charts and eventually became the single of the Year award.
Clapton was in 1980 with his own interpretation of the title equally successful. In 1982, the album was released Listen to the radio with the same single, which could prove appearance at number 3 on the country charts, and over the years became one often played radio anthem.
Williams winning streak continued in the eighties. Because of back problems and an increased following surgery (1987) he withdrew more and more on his back in the ranch located near Nashville, but he still comes in a variety of country events in the U.S. on. His last Hiterfolg he had in 1992 with Lord Have Mercy On A Country Boy . All in all, Don Williams was seen in the pop charts in England and in Germany much more successful than in the U.S.. Although astonishing 17 number one hits on the Billboard country charts to his credit, could be just the title I Believe In You (1980) in the U.S. pop charts place (Peak: 24).
2004 first appeared in a concert film by Don Williams.
The DVD, titled "Into Africa" ​​is a 1997 in Zimbabwe recorded a concert for which Williams presented 16 of his greatest hits. That the country singer in Africa has a wide fan base, the great delight of the audience confirmed on his first visit to their country.

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