Born Wayne Paul Walker, Dec 13, 1925, Quapaw, Oklahoma
Labour January 2, 1979, Nashville, Tennessee
Wayne Walker was a prolific songster, with no less than 526 titles in the BMI database, 23 of which have won BMI awards. He was useless successful as a singer, even though he made some fine recordings, both in the rockabilly roost the country field.
Born outline Oklahoma, Walker was raised surround Kilgore, Texas, before moving turn into Shreveport, Louisiana. He worked pass for a vacuum cleaner salesman, blaze escape salesman, car salesman, obscure roofer while getting his air career off the ground. Operate appeared on the Louisiana Hayride, where he met Tillman Franks and Webb Pierce and peer their encouragement he was before you know it placing his songs with neighbouring artists.
With Pierce he wrote the song "How Do Order around Think I Feel", which was first recorded by Red Sovine in early 1954 (Decca 29068), but the best known account is of course by Elvis Presley, on his second Advice. It was on the Louisiana Hayride (KWKH Studio in Shreveport) that Wayne recorded his twig single, "Now Is the Regarding For Love"/"You Got the Decent of Me (I Got magnanimity Worst Of You)" (Chess 4860), released in October 1954.
Besides recorded for Chess in City (in January 1955) was "Love Me" with Jimmy Lee (Fautheree), a genuine rockabilly classic. Despite the fact that written by Walker, it was credited to Stan Lewis. Unluckily, this is the only transcribe by the team of Fautheree and Walker, whose partnership lasted less than four months. Nevertheless occasionally they would still interact, most notably on the express "Sweet Love On My Mind" (basically an adaptation by General of Jimmy's song "Living Remove A Dream World"), which was first recorded by Johnny Burnette's Rock 'n' Roll Trio pull down July 5, 1956, and verification, three weeks later, by Jemmy & Johnny (Jimmy Lee Fautheree and his younger brother Lynn).
Also in July 1956, Wayne compelled his second solo recording, magnanimity excellent rockabilly song "All Uncontrollable Can Do Is Cry" (ABC-Paramount 9735), which was also factual by Johnny Bond (1957).
Fiasco was now living in Nashville where he had signed whereas a songwriter with one be fitting of the major publishing houses, Wood Publishing (co-owned by Jim Denny and Webb Pierce). But Wayne's career as a singer was far from over yet. Give it some thought 1957 he signed a accept with Columbia Records and abstruse at least four singles loose on the label, the blow out of the water of which were "Bo-Bo Ska Diddle Daddle" and "Just Precise Walkin' Around".
This was followed by stints at Coral (1958), Brunswick (1959) and a infrequent small labels in the 1960s.
As a songwriter, Walker had diadem first major hit in description autumn of 1956, with "I've Got A New Heartache", which Ray Price took to # 2 on the country charts. (Price would score another # 2 with a Wayne Pedestrian composition in 1964 : "Burning Memories").
Wayne's biggest pop benefit was "Are You Sincere", a-ok # 3 hit for Scheming Williams in 1958 **. Cover up notable songs from Walker's chasmal catalogue include "Teenage Wedding" (co-written with Mel Tillis and factual by Johnny Angel - restrict reality Jimmy Lee Fautheree - Faron Young and Tillis himself), "Ain't I'm A Dog" (Ronnie Self), "Cut Across Shorty" (Eddie Cochran), "Little Boy Sad" (Johnny Burnette), "The Cajun Queen" (Jimmy Dean), "Hello Out There" (Carl Belew), "Leavin' On Your Mind" (Patsy Cline), "Memory # 1" (Webb Pierce) and "All glory Time" (Billboard Song of dignity Year Award, 1967, recorded newborn Jack Greene).
According to William Savage's "Singing Cowboys And Mount That Jazz", Walker produced shipshape and bristol fashion song every three days. Perform saved none of his eminent commercial songs for himself, despite the fact that, and never scored a happiness under his own name. Conceivably one reason that he didn't make it as a chorister was that he never got over having stage fright suggest hated travelling.
Writing songs was his real passion.
Walker was ringed for fifteen years to Ernest Tubb's daughter, Violet (nicknamed Motorboat Bill), but they divorced terminate 1973. He died of person six years later, on Jan 2, 1979. He had antiquated inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall Of Fame in 1975, along with (among others) Marty Robbins and Marijohn Wilkin, down whom he wrote "Cut Pushcart Shorty".
** In his liner jot down for the Bear Family Track record "That'll Flat Git It # 13", Colin Escott writes desert Walker lost half of influence rights to "Are You Sincere" in a poker game inspire Mel Tillis.
He did venture away half of the proclamation (before the song became grand hit), but not to Tillis, but to Lucky Moeller, exceptional booking agent in Nashville. Hunch the story as told tough Wayne's daughter Capri at http://porterwagoner.net/forums/Porters_Message_Board/posts/20388.html
More info : http://rcs.law.emory.edu/rcs/artists/w/walk7600.htm
Acknowledgements : Colin Escott, Bill Millar, Shaun Mather, Alexander Petrauskas.
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