[LPJim]

Billy Swan
YOU'RE OK, I'M OKAY
A&M SP-4686



Billy Swan, a native of Cape Girardeau, MO, is best known for his 1974 rockabilly hit song, "I Can Help."

SIDE ONE

You're OK, I'm OK
No Way Around It (It's Love)
Bloodstream
Please Help Me, I'm Falling
You Make My Soul Rock'N'Roll

SIDE TWO

Forever In Your Love
Lonely Avenue
That's America
Never Go Lookin' Away
Let the Rain Keep Fallin'
Hello, Remember Me

Produced and Arranged by Booker T. Jones
Engineers: Ellis Sorkin, Jim Nipar, Howard Steele, Stan Dacus

Billy Swan & Booker T. Jones - keyboards
Donald "Duck" Dunn - bass
Leo Sayer - harmonica
Otis Blackwell & Don Robertson - piano

The Jordanaires: Hoyt Hawkins, Neal Matthews Jr., Louis Nunley, Gordon Stoker (vocals)

Kris Kristofferson, Rita Coolidge, Clydie King, Venetta Fields & Paulette Brown - background vocals
Sammy Creason - drums
Gerry McGee & Steve Burton - guitars

For biographical information:


www.rockabillyhall.com/SwanBilly1.html


JB
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[Mr Bill]

I assume we're skipping SP4685 (Quincy Jones' Sounds & Stuff Like That) because it's covered in the Jazz Forum???

--Mr Bill

[LPJim]

That's what I did. These competing AOTW series have become a minefield.

If all the energy directed into repeats of favorites was applied to the 4100-5403 series we'd likely be finished by now and working on "0000" forward. Just an observation,

JB
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[Mr Bill]

I agree. I still think we could handle double, triple or quintuple AOTWs at this point in the A&M chronology....

--Mr Bill

[LPJim]

Occasionally I think about a backward AOTW series ( .... /5403 ... for example).

There are a few missing links in the 5200 series, and huge gaps in the thousand or so items in the "0000" series.

When rummaging through used disc bins I've tried to update the list, but it can be quite a challenge.

After '1021' the numbers jump around in an incoherent pattern, most likely due to label mergers, consolidations and general mayhem.

JB
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[Captain Bacardi]

[Dave]

An "OK" comeback for Swan after his long-time tenure at Monument, though this one-shot stint at A&M (coincidental w/ Kris Kristofferson's "stay-over" w/ then-wife, Rita Colidge) runs a bit lethargic for what was only a spontaneous talent on the strength of "I Can Help" and "Lover Please", which along with his own version of had certainly been a hit for others back when Billy began his career pitching songs like many other country music artists did around Nashville before they ever began recording...

"That's America" ("...A little day, a little night, a little protestin' when somethin' ain't right... That's America, that's America, to me..." "A little right, a little wrong, a good ol' Stevie Wonder song, That's America, that's America, to me...") and "Hello, Remember Me?" are about the best in this bunch...

This more restrained approach continued on I'm Into Loving You, Swan later recorded for Epic, in 1981...



Dave