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Nelson, Willie
The Professional Work of Willie Nelson
Career Highlights
No. 9 All-Time Country Music Artist
Stage Name: The Redheaded Stranger
Barn Dance Affiliate:
- Ernest Tubb’s Midnight Jamboree
Film, Night Club, Radio & TV
- Barbarosa, 1
- Coming Out of the Ice, 1
- Electric Horseman, 1
- Gilley’s Club, 2
- Hee Haw, 4
- Nashville Now, 4
- Pop Goes the Country, 4
- The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour, 4
- The Johnny cash Show, 4
- The Porter Wagoner Show, 4
- The Wilburn Brothers Show, 4
1-Film, 2-Night Club, 3-Radio, 4-TV
Billboard Chart Data
- No. 1 Singles: 19
- Top-10 Singles: 41
- Crossover Singles: 17
- Charted Singles: 114
- Chart Years Active: 1962-1993
Awards
Country Music Association
- Entertainer of the Year (1979)
- Vocal Duo of the Year (1976)*
- Vocal Duo of the Year (1983)**
- Country Music Hall of Fame (1993)
Top-10 Singles
- Willingly -1962, 1
- Touch Me
- Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain* -1975
- Good Hearted Woman*2
- Remember Me -1976
- If You've Got The Money I've Got..*
- Uncloudy Day
- I Love You a Thousand Ways -1977
- Something to Brag About, 3
- If You Can Touch Her at All -1978
- Mammas Don't Let Your Babies*...2, #
- Georgia on My Mind*
- Blue Skies*
- All of Me
- Sweet Memories -1979
- Heartbreak Hotel*4
- Help Me Make it Through the...
- My Heroes Have Always...*
- Midnight Rider
- Faded Love, 5
- On the Road Again*
- Angels Flying Too Close to the...* -1981
- Always on My Mind* -1982
- Just to Satisfy You*2
- Let It Be Me
- Last Thing I Needed First...
- Everything's Beautiful, 6
- Reasons to Quit, 7 -1983
- Little Old Fashioned Karma
- Pancho And Lefty*7
- Why Do I Have to Chose
- Tale It to the Limit, 2
- To All The Girls I've Loved Before*8 -1984
- City Of New Orleans*
- Seven Spanish Angels*9
- Forgiving You Was Easy* -1985
- Highwayman* 10
- Living In The Promise Land* -1986
- Spanish Eyes, 8 -1988
- Nothing I Can Do About It Now* -1989
- There You Are
*-No. 1 Single
#-Biggest Chart Single
1-With Shirley Collie
3-With Mary K Place
4-With Leon Russell
6-With Dolly Parton
8-JulioIglesias
9-Ray Charles
-10 With Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Duet Albums
Willie Nelson & Ray Prive
Album Title: San Antonio Rose
Columbia Records, JC-36476 (1980)
Tracks
- San Antonio Rose
- I'll Be There (If You Ever Want Me)
- I Fall to Pieces
- Crazy Arms
- Release Me
- Don't You Ever Get Tired (Of Hurting Me)
- This Cold War With You
- Funny How Time Slips Away
- Night Life
- Deep Water
- Faded Love
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Willie Nelson & Webb Pierce
Album Title: In the Jailhouse Now
Columbia Records, PC 38095 (1982)
Recorded 1981, Spicewood, Texas USA
Engineered by Chips Morman, Larry Greenhill & David Cherry
Musicians: Willie Nelson (vocal, guitar), Webb Pierce (vocal), Weldon Myrick, Jimmy Day (Steel), Mike Leech, Bee Spears (bass), Gene Chrisman, Paul English (drums), Bobby Wood, Bobby Emmons (piano, keyboards), Johnny Gimble (fiddle), Grady Martin, Reggie Young, Jody Payne, Chips Morman, Leon Russell (guitar), Mickey Raphael (harmonica), Toni White, Paul Davis (vocals).
Tracks
- There Stands The Glass
- Wondering
- In the Jailhouse Now
- You're Not Mine Anymore
- Heebie Jeebie Bluesn No. 2
- Slowly
- I Don't Care
- Back Street Affair
- Let Me Be the First to Know
- More and More
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Willie Nelson & Merle Haggard
Album Title: Pancho & Lefty
Columbia Records, FE-37958 (1983)
Musicians: Merle Haggard (vocal, guitar), Willie Nelson (voca, guitar), Lewis Talley, Chips Moman, Johnny Christopher (guitar), Mike Leech (bass), Gene Chrisman (drums), Johnny Gimble (fiddle, mandolin), Bobby Emmons, Bobby Wood (keyboards), Mickey Raphael (harmonica), Don Markham (sax, trumpet)
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Researched, compiled and written by Richard Bell, Roots of Country Music Oct. 11, 2011
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