Songwriter found his voice
This week in 1979: a federal judge halted immigration checks on 50,000 Iranian students in the U.S.; 12 employees escaped to safety after 2,000 people stormed the U.S. Embassy in Libya; The U.S. Senate voted to grant $1.5 billion in federal loan guarantees to save the Chrysler Corporation from bankruptcy; and a singer/songwriter from Floydada, Texas, had his 21st hit record!
According to Don Williams, he came to Nashville to be a songwriter and did not intend to be a recording artist as he “wasn’t too impressed with his own voice as a singer.” But as the tide turned in his music career and he began recording, he found that he was devoting less and less time to songwriting.
Williams said, “When you’re on the road doing shows and you finally get to come home to be with your family, you’re just not in the mood to sit down by yourself and write a song.”
One of the last of Williams’ compositions to hit the top of the charts was “Love Me Over Again.”
He said, “the best songs that I have written are those where I sit down with a guitar and I just get in a certain groove and that dictates a certain mood and I stay in that mood long enough to start talking about it and then, I’ll write a song. “Love Me Over Again” was one of those songs. I have a little house across the road that I use to write. And that song was one that I wrote in that little house.”
Don’s MCA single “Love Me Over Again” came on the country charts Dec. 8, 1979 and was at the top the week of Feb. 16,1980.
It was his 21st charted song and his 10th No. 1. It was on the charts for 16 weeks.
Williams joined the Grand Ole Opry in 1976 and was inducted into The Country Music Hall Of Fame in 2010
He placed 56 songs on the country charts between 1972 and 1992.
Williams died in 2017 at age 78.