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No Love Have I
What Can I Say
Grandma's Song
Poison Love
Are You Teasing Me
Bucket to the South
Soft Spoken Man
Someone is Looking for Someone Like You
Need Your Lovin
It's No Wonder I Feel Blue

Mel Tillis
Gail Davies
Gail Davies
Elmer Laird
Charlie/Ira Louvin
Gail Davies
Gail Davies
Gail Davies
Gail Davies
Gail Davies

#26 released 7/08/78


#27 released 10/21/78



#11 released 2/10/79

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Gail Davies, Reggie Young, Charlie Brown and Pete Bordonali
Reggie Young, Pete Bordonali, Charley Brown
Lloyd Green
Shane Keister and Tommy West
Joe Osborne and Joe Alan
Terry McMillan
Kenny Malone, Larry London and Roy Yeager
Arranged by Shane Keister, played by Shelly Kurland Strings
Gail Davies, Tommy West and Warren Peterson
Alan Messer
Virginia Team

          This self-titled LP was Gail's first and the only one she did not produce. Though her contributions were weighty, having written seven of the songs and arranged three she'd brought to the project, she felt the recording process was a disappointment and resolved to produce her own music in the future.
           No Love Have I was one of the songs Gail arranged for this album. It was originally recorded by her favorite country singer, Webb Pierce, and was the first single released from this album. She met him once, while having dinner with Willie Nelson on his bus, and he told her he was glad to hear somebody singing his old songs. Gail later produced a tribute album to Webb Pierce entitled Caught In The Webb , which was nominated at the Americana Awards ceremony for Best Album of the year. It featuring 25 great artists including George Jones, Emmylou Harris, Willie Nelson, Crystal Gayle, Charlie Pride, Dwight Yoakam and many others. See the home page...
           Gail also revived Are You Teasing Me on this album, orignally recorded by another of her favorite singers, Carl Smith.   Carl and his wife, country singer Goldie Hill, have since become good friends with Gail and her family.
           The next single was Gail's arrangement of a classic Johnny and Jack song called Poison Love. It was doing well on country radio until the news of the Jones Town massacre. Although the song had been released months before the incident, the stations said they were getting complaints that the title was in bad taste, considering what had happened, and it was immediately pulled from the radio playlists.
           This album includes the original version of Someone is Looking For Someone Like You, one of Gail's compositions that has since been recorded in seven languages, and Bucket to The South, a song she wrote while driving to Texas to meet her father after 23 years of separation. It later became a hit single for Ava Barber and has been recorded by numerous other artists including Lynn Anderson and Canada's Colleen Peterson. It was also performed by Mitzi Gaynor in her Las Vegas show.
           Soft Spoken Man was written for Gail's stepfather, Darby Davies, who had raised her from the age of five and her Grandma's Song includes the actual voice of her Grandmother, Frances Whitten, along with her mother, Jewel, singing an old Irish folk song called Corina or The Fox Hunting Song.
          This LP has long been discontinued and is considered a collector's item. It sells at auction in Amsterdam for $100 US. It has been re-released on CD format and should be available in record stores. To find the vinyl LP, check with your local vintage record stores or contact Jack Lawrence Record Shop: 615/256-9240.

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