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“Billy Edd Wheeler
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Biography & Discography |
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Kenny Rogers |
Peter Paul & Mary |
Kingston Trio |
Conway Twitty |
Loretta Lynn |
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A sampling
of Billy Edd's songs and some Billy Edd's career
in country music began with songs recorded by Rex
Allen, Roll Up Your Sleeve, and Hank Snow,
Blue Roses. Ritchie Havens, Judy Henske, We
Five, and several other artists did High Flying
Bird. Judy Collins recorded The Coming of
the Roads and Winter Sky. (Peter, Paul
& Mary also did The Coming of the
Roads.) But his first big hit was The Rev.
Mr. Black by the Kingston Trio, followed by the
Johnny Cash-June Carter version of Jackson,
also a pop hit by Nancy Sinatra & Lee
Hazelwood. Kenny Rogers struck platinum with
Coward of the County and Long Arm of the
Law. Elvis reached # 2 with It's
Midnight, and Jerry Reed charted high with
Gimme Back My Blues. Billy Edd charted with
several songs, but his only hit as an artist was
Ode To The Little Brown Shack Out
Back. Other chart songs
include O.C. Smith's I Ain't the Worryin'
Kind, Hank Williams Jr.'s A Baby Again,
Johnny Cash's Blistered, Pat Boone's Rock
Boll Weevil, Glen Campbell's Anne, The Kingston
Trio's Coal Tattoo and Desert Pete,
Conway Twitty & Loretta Lynn's You Blow My
Mind, and other songs by George Hamilton IV,
Chet Atkins, Ed Bruce, Del Reeves, etc. (Several
artists recorded Sassafrass.) Billy Edd's songs
have been recorded by 150 artists in this country
and abroad, selling over 57 million copies. His
Coward of the County was made into a movie
starring Kenny Rogers and his song Jackson
was featured twice in the movie Walk the
Line. |
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