Dallas Frazier. Image copyright: artist, promo
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Anyone who has ever seen Ferlin Husky’s first recording of There Goes My Everything has heard – a song full of pain, performed with a good dash of theatrical mockery – will ask, can Country music go more to the heart? The answer has to be yes, as every songwriter in the genre strives anew to make their listeners cry: whether it’s clumsy staging or suffering they’ve experienced themselves, songwriters channel emotions and tell stories to touch the listener’s soul. But this song sets the bar quite high.
The breakup drama detailed in the song was actually inspired by the singer’s real suffering. But has written Ferlin Husky not this song. “There Goes My Everything” was written by the then 24-year-old Dallas Frazier put to paper when he lived in Husky’s house for a while in the winter of 1963/64 and saw first-hand how Husky’s separation from his then wife affected the substance.
The world success and today Evergreen with well over 150 cover versions – by Elvis Presley until Engelbert Humperdinckwas sung by Husky for the very first time in May 1966. The song only became a huge country hit later that year for Jack Greene.
Ferlin Husky – There Goes My Everything
Born in Oklahoma in 1939, Frazier began writing songs at the tender age of ten and won in California when he was 12 Bakersfield one hosted by Husky Talentwettbewerb. He was recording for Capitol by the age of 14, and by the mid-late 1950s he was a regular on California country music TV shows. In 1960 he had his first hit with the pop song “Alley Oop”. Three years later he followed suit Nashvilleto there than songwriter to work.
Below Frazier wrote for numerous stars: Among others took Charley Pride, Merle Haggard, Connie Smith, Charlie Rich, Emmylou Harris, Bobby Barethe Beach Boys and Willie Nelson his compositions. Alone George Jones sang more than 70 Frazier tracks and even released an entire album in 1968 exclusively with compositions by the songwriter. Reason enough for podcasters Tyler Mahan Coeto dedicate a dedicated episode of Cocaine & Rhinestones to Frazier for Season 2.
Dallas Frazier was also a successful recording artist himself, and his own recordings, as well as the tracks he wrote for Charlie Rich and Elvis Presley, often had a strong impact Rhythm & Blues feeling Frazier recorded the world hit “Elvira” in 1966 for his album of the same name: The Oak Ridge Boys covered it in 1981 – and made it their “signature song”. As his drinking problems worsened and his marriage faltered, Frazier retired in 1988 and became preacher. After retirement, he returned to the musical stage in 2006, even releasing new music again.
Am January 14, 2022 is Dallas Frazier after short illness died at the age of 82. RIP Dallas Frazier!
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