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| Texas-born singer/songwriter/guitarist Buck Owens moved to California and created the Bakersfield sound with its identifiable twangy, honky-tonk style. He was a Capitol recording artist for over 15 years during which time he logged up 20 #1 hits including the EMI-published TOGETHER AGAIN; released as a single in '64, Buck's own version emphasized its simple yet haunting lyric: "Together again, my tears have stopped falling/The long lonely nights are now at an end". A year later, Ray Charles cut the song on his "Country & Western Meets Rhythm & Blues" LP and then in '76, Emmylou Harris revived it and took it back to the top of the Billboard country singles chart.
Among other Buck Owens ballads we publish are FOOLIN' 'ROUND (co-written with Harlan Howard, it was the 6th of Buck's own 45's issued in 1960 and covered soon afterwards for the pop market by fellow Capitol artist, Kay Starr) and UNDER YOUR SPELL AGAIN - another of Buck's early singles on which he was given a run for his money from a competing version by Ray Price on Columbia.
Buck Owens passed away in March 2006.
We recommend these songs of his:
DON'T LET HER KNOW (Owens/Owens/Rich)
by Buck Owens (Capitol: 1964) US #33 Country
FLASH, CRASH AND THUNDER (Owens/Webber)
by The Farmer Boys (Capitol: 1957)
FOOLIN' 'ROUND (Owens/Howard)
by Buck Owens (Capitol: 1961) US #2 Country
by Kay Starr (Capitol: 1961) US #49 Pop
GONNA HAVE LOVE (Owens/Simpson)
by Buck Owens (Capitol: 1965) US #10 Country
I'VE GOT A RIGHT TO KNOW (Owens)
by Buck Owens (Capitol: 1960) US #25 Country
MOMMY FOR A DAY (Owens/Howard)
by Kitty Wells (Decca/Universal: 1959) US #5 Country
ONLY YOU (CAN BREAK MY HEART) (Owens)
by Buck Owens (Capitol: 1965) US #1 Country
SECOND FIDDLE (Owens)
by Buck Owens (Capitol: 1959) US #24 Country
TAKE ME BACK AGAIN (Owens)
by Rose Maddox (Capitol: 1961)
TOGETHER AGAIN (Owens)
by Buck Owens (Capitol: 1964) US #1 Country
by Ray Charles (ABC-Paramount/Rhino: 1966) US #1 AC, #19 Pop,
UK #48
by Emmylou Harris (Reprise/Warner Music Group: 1976)
US #1 Country
by Kenny Rogers & Dottie West (Liberty/Capitol: 1984)
US #19 Country
UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF LOVE (Owens/Howard)
by Buck Owens (Capitol: 1961) US #2 Country
UNDER YOUR SPELL AGAIN (Owens/Rhodes)
by Buck Owens (Capitol: 1959) US #4 Country
by Ray Price (Columbia/Sony BMG: 1959) US #5 Country
by Johnny Rivers (Imperial/Capitol: 1966) US #35 Pop
by Waylon Jennings & Jessi Colter (RCA/Sony BMG: 1971)
US #39 Country
by Barbara Fairchild (Columba/Sony BMG: 1976) US #65 Country
by Shelby Lynne (Epic/Sony BMG: 1989) US #93 Country
YEARNING BURNING HEART (Owens)
by The Farmer Boys (Capitol: 1957)
YOU'RE FOR ME (Owens/Collins)
by Buck Owens (Capitol: 1953) US #10 Country
Chart positions courtesy of Joel Whitburn & Billboard Communications
Biography courtesy of Alan Warner |
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