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I'll Be There
It's a Lovely, Lovely World
Mama's Gonna Give You Sweet Things
Kentucky
Honky Tonk Waltz
Farewell Song
Object of My Affection
I'm Hungry I'm Tired
Grandma's Song
No One to Welcome Me Home

R.Gabbard/R.Price
Boudeleaux Bryant
Gail Davies
C.Davis/H.Taylor
Paul Craft
Gail Davies
Delbert Mc Clinton
Gail Davies
Gail Davies
Charles E. Moody

#4 released 11/29/80
#5 released 4/04/81






#9 released 8/15/81

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Dean Parks, Marty Walsh
Leland Sklar
Mike Baird
Farrel Morris
Jai Winding and Shane Keister
Buddy Spicher & Byron Berline
Jay Dee Maness and Lloyd Green
Terry Mc Millan and Mickey Raphael
Gail Davies, Paulette Carlson and Jeff Tassin
The Jordanaires on "No One to Welcome Me Home"
Emmylou Harris on "It's a Lovely, Lovely World"
Arranged by Buddy Skipper, played by Shelly Kurland Strings
Ed Thrasher

          Gail's second production proved to be a far more lucrative endeavor than her first, garnishing her three Top Ten Billboard hit singles. She said she recorded the title track, I'll Be There, because she loved singing the line, "There ain't no man big enough to stop me." That single became her biggest hit to date, reaching #4 on the country charts. It also resulted in Gail being voted Best New Female Vocalist by the DJs of America.
          I'm Hungry I'm Tired is a special song Gail wrote about her songwriting mentor, Roger Miller. She spent a short time touring in his band and had made her television debut as his duet partner singing Ashes of Love on the Merv Griffin Show. One evening, after a performance, he told her how his father had died when he was very young and his mother had given him to his Aunt and Uncle to be raised on a farm in Oklahoma. He loved them very much but wanted to become a songwriter, not a farmer. Gail went home that night and wrote this song. She said when she played it for Roger the next day, he cried. She knew, at that moment, that she had really become a songwriter. This was a also a favorite of Gail's nephews, Jimmy and Brandon Davies. She used to sing it to them when they had trouble going to sleep at night.
          You will also notice the unmistakable voice of Emmylou Harris on this album, singing harmony on It's a Lovely, Lovely World, which was originally recorded by Carl Smith .
          Though currently out of print, this vinyl LP can still be obtained at vintage record stores like the Great Escape in Nashville or Jack Lawrence Record Shop: 615/256-9240.
          You can receive a FREE CD of this album when you join Gail's International fanclub. Click here for more details.

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