The Wondering Boy
The Wondering Boy | ||||
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Studio album by Webb Pierce | ||||
Released | August 1956 | |||
Genre | Country | |||
Label | Decca | |||
Webb Pierce chronology | ||||
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Singles from The Wondering Boy | ||||
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The Wondering Boy is an album from honky-tonk singer Webb Pierce that was released in August 1956 on the Decca label (DL 8295).[1] Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic called the album "one of his best albums of the '50s" with a "dynamite" track sequence.[2]
The album included seven songs that reached No. 1 on the US country charts: "Wondering" (Jockey #1, 1952), "That Heart Belongs to Me" (Jockey #1, 1952), "Back Street Affair" (Jockey #1, Juke Box #1, Best Seller #1, 1952), "It's Been So Long" (Jockey #1, Juke Box #1, Best Seller #1, 1953), "There Stands the Glass" (Best Seller #1, Juke Box #1, Jockey #1, 1953), "Slowly" (Best Seller #1, Juke Box #1, Jockey #1, 1954), and "Love Love Love" (Jockey #1, Juke Box #1, Best Seller #1, 1955).[3]
Track listing
Side A
- "Wondering" (Joe Werner)
- "There Stands the Glass" (Autry Greisham, Mary Jean Shurtz, Russ Hull)
- "That's Me Without You" (J. D. Miller)
- "Don't Throw Your Life Away" (Billy Wallace, Webb Pierce)
- "Love Love Love" (Ted Jarrett)
- "If You Were Me (And I Were You)" (Frank Miller, Webb Pierce)
Side B
- "Back Street Affair" (Billy Wallace)
- "It's Been So Long" (Autry Greisham)
- "Slowly" (Tommy Hill, Webb Pierce)
- "That Heart Belongs to Me" (Webb Pierce)
- "Yes I Know Why" (Webb Pierce)
- "I'm Gonna Fall Out of Love With You" (Martha Ellis Taylor, Randy Hughes)
References
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- "Wondering"
- "That Heart Belongs to Me"
- "Back Street Affair"
- "I'll Go on Alone"
- "It's Been So Long"
- "There Stands the Glass"
- "Slowly"
- "Even Tho"
- "More and More"
- "In the Jailhouse Now"
- "I Don't Care"
- "Love Love Love"
- "Why Baby Why"
- "Honky Tong Song"
- "I Ain't Never"
- Webb Pierce (1955)
- The Wondering Boy (1956)
- Just Imagination (1958)
- Webb! (1959)
- Webb with a Beat (1960)
- Fallen Angel (1960)
- Cross Country (1962)
- The Webb Pierce Story (1964)
- Sands of Gold (1964)
- Memory #1 (1965)
- Webb's Choice (1966)
- Webb Pierce Sings This Thing (1969)
- I'm Gonna Be a Swinger (1972)
- In the Jailhouse Now (1982)