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No Love Have I
What Can I Say
Grandma's Song
Poison Love
Are You Teasing Me
Bucket to the South
Soft Spoken Man
Someone is Looking for Someone Like You
Need Your Lovin
It's No Wonder I Feel Blue

Mel Tillis
Gail Davies
Gail Davies
Elmer Laird
Charlie/Ira Louvin
Gail Davies
Gail Davies
Gail Davies
Gail Davies
Gail Davies

#26 released 7/08/78


#27 released 10/21/78



#11 released 2/10/79

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Gail Davies, Reggie Young, Charlie Brown and Pete Bordonali
Reggie Young, Pete Bordonali and Charley Brown
Lloyd Green
Shane Keister and Tommy West
Joe Osborne and Joe Allen
Terry McMillan
Kenny Malone, Larrie Londin and Roy Yeager
Arranged by Shane Keister, played by Shelly Kurland Strings
Gail Davies, Tommy West and Warren Peterson
Alan Messer
Virginia Team

          This was Gail Davies' first album on a major label and the only one she did not produce. Although her contributions were weighty, having written seven of the songs and arranged three, which she brought to the project, Gail felt the production was a disappointment and resolved to produce her own music in the future.
          The first single released from this album, No Love Have I, was one of the songs that Gail arranged. Originally recorded by country singer, Webb Pierce, it went to No. 26 on the Billboard charts. Gail would later produce a tribute to honor Webb Pierce entitled Caught In The Webb, featuring George Jones, Emmylou Harris, Willie Nelson, Crystal Gayle, Charlie Pride, Pam Tillis, Dwight Yoakam, Allison Moorer, Billy Walker, Rosie Flores, Dale Watson, The Jordanaires. Trent Summar, Robbie Fulks and The Del MCoury Band.
          The second single released from this album was Gail’s arrangement of a classic 1950s recording by the country duo Johnny and Jack entitled Poison Love. The song was doing well at radio until the news of the Jonestown Massacre (in which 918 people were poisoned in a religious suicide pact) shocked the entire country. Radio programers said they were getting too many complaints from their listerners that the title was in bad taste. The song was pulled from the radio playlists and stalled at No. 27 on the national charts.
          Gail also revived a classic Louvin Brother's song on this album. Are You Teasing Me was originally recorded by another of her favorite country artists, Carl Smith. Carl and his wife, country singer Goldie Hill, would later become close friends with Gail and her family.
          This album also contains the original version of Someone is Looking For Someone Like You. Written by Gail, this song has since been recorded and translated into seven languages by such internationally known artists as Nana Mouskouri and Susan McCann. It also appeared on a Gospel album recorded by Grand Ole Opry star George Hamilton IV and was made famous in the bluegrass community by The Country Gentlemen.
          Bucket to The South was written by Gail while driving to Texas to meet her biological father after 23 years of separation. This song would be recorded by numerous artists including Ava Barber and Lynn Anderson. Mitzi Gaynor, the star of the movie South Pacific. would also use it in her Broadway performances.
           Gail wrote Grandma's Song, as a tribute to her maternal grandmother. It includes the actual voice of Mrs. Whitten singing an Irish folk ballad she taught to Gail when she was a child called “The Fox Hunting Song.”            Soft Spoken Man was written in honor of Gail's stepfather, Darby Davies, who adopted Gail and her two brothers, gave them his name and raised them as his own.
          This LP has long since been discontinued and is now considered a collector's item. It was re-released on CD format in 2002 and is available at Amazon.com. To find the vinyl LP, check with your local vintage record stores or contact The Great Escape in Nashville, Tennessee.

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