Overview
The 'Old Loves Never Die' album holds the distinction of including Gene
Watson's only single to reach No. 1 on the Billboard country music
singles chart in the USA.
Gene enjoyed a happy start to the new year when the single 'Fourteen
carat mind' enjoyed the honour of spending 1 week at No. 1 on the Billboard country music singles
chart in January 1982 (9-16 January 1982).
The 'Old Loves Never Die' album yielded a further hit single on the
country music charts in the USA in 1982; 'Speak softly (you're talking
to my heart)' reached No.8.
The
'Old Loves Never Die' album was produced by Russ Reeder & Gene Watson
for G-J Productions.
The 'Old Loves Never Die' album was recorded at the Sound Emporium
Studio, Nashville, Tennessee where the Recording & Mixing Engineer was Jim Williamson.
The 'Old Loves Never Die' album achieved a chart position of
Number 57 on the Billboard Top Country Album Chart in 1981.
'Old Loves Never Die'
MCA Records MCA5241 (1981)
Track Listing
1 'Old
loves never die'
Written by
Dave Kirby (RIP) &
Warren Robb
Published by
Millstone Music /
Baray Music, Inc. (ASCAP/BMI)
2 'The girl I used to run around on'
Written by Joe Allen
Published by
Tree Publishing
Company Inc. (BMI)
3 'Roads & other reasons'
Written by
Buzz Rabin
Published by
Window Music Publishing
Company Inc. (BMI)
4 'Til Melinda comes around'
Written by
Glenn Ray
Published by
Gator Music (SESAC)
5 'Speak softly (you're talking to my heart)'
•
Written by
Stephen P. Spurgin and
J.D. Mendenhall
Published by
Booth & Watson
Music (BMI)
6 'Nothing about her reminds me of you'
Written by
Dave Kirby
(RIP)
Published by
Cross Keys Publishing
Company Inc. (ASCAP)
7 'Fourteen carat mind' ••
Written by
Dallas Frazier &
Larry Lee
(RIP)
Published by
Acuff Rose
Publications Inc. (BMI)
8 'Lonely me'
Written by
Larry Booth
Published by
Booth & Watson Music (BMI)
9 'The sun never comes up'
Written by
Dave Kirby
(RIP) & Joe Allen
Published by
New Ground Music /
Joe Allen Music (ASCAP/BMI)
10 'Missing you just started hitting home'
Written by Warren Robb & Shirl Milete
Published by
Baray Music Inc. (BMI)
Musician Credits
Guitar & Mandolin: Harold
Bradley
Bass: Joe Allen
Steel Guitar:
Sonny Garrish
Fiddle:
Lisa Silver-Reynolds
Fiddle & Viola: Buddy
Spicher
Drums:
Buddy Harman
Acoustic & Electric Piano:
Hargus 'Pig' Robbins
Guitar:
Dale Sellers & Dave Kirby (RIP)
Background Vocals:
Sound Seventy Singers
(Al Henson, Ronnie Drake, Beckie Foster &
Joy Gardner)
A
re-recording of 'Speak softly (you're talking to my heart)' (track indicated thus
•)
can be found on 'The Good Ole Days' album, which
was released on Step One Records in 1996.
A
re-recording of 'Fourteen carat mind' (track indicated
thus ••)
can be found on the 'A Way to Survive' album, which was released on Step One Records
in 1997.
You
can read a review of Gene Watson's 'Old Loves Never Die'
album here. The review, which was written by
Alan Cackett, was published in the December 1981 issue
of the United Kingdom monthly publication
Country Music People.
