Gene Watson Discography
'Should I Come Home'
Capitol Records ST11947 (1979)
Gene Watson's 'Should I Come Home' album was released on the Capitol Records
label in 1979.
'Should I Come Home' discography information is presented on this
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intended.
About 'Should I Come Home'...
Overview
Gene Watson's 'Should I Come Home' includes a
number of single releases that attained high positions on the American
(Billboard) country music singles chart.
The title track 'Should I come home (or should I
go crazy') reached the Top 3 in 1979, while 'Nothing sure looked good on
you' & 'Bedroom ballad' reached No.4 & No.18 respectively on the Billboard
country music singles chart in 1980.
'Should I Come Home (or should I go crazy)' was produced by Russ
Reeder.
'Should I Come Home (or should I go crazy)' was recorded
& mixed at Clement Recording Studios, Nashville
(Engineer: Jim Williamson).
'Should I Come Home (or should I go crazy)' was mastered at Capitol Records,
Hollywood, California.
'Should I Come Home' achieved a chart position of No.16
on the Billboard Top Country Album Chart in 1978.
'Should I Come Home'
Capitol Records ST11947 (1979)
Track Listing
1 'Should I come home (or should I go crazy)'
••• #
Written by Joe Allen
Published by Tree Publishing Company Inc. / BMI
2 'I can't help it (if I'm still in love with you)'
• *
Written by Hank Williams Senior
Published by Fred Rose Music Inc. / BMI
3 'Nothing sure looked good on you'
••• ◊
Written by Jim Rushing
Published by Coal Miners Music, Inc. / BMI
4 'That evil child' ••
Written by Wayne Carson
Published by Screen Gems - EMI Music Inc. / BMI
5 'Circle driveway' •
¹
Written by Joe Allen
Published by Joe Allen Music / BMI
6 'The heart of a clown' •
Written by S. Nelson, J. Rollins and F. Kane
Published by Rightsong Music, Inc. / BMI
7 'After the party' •
Written by Joe Eddie Gough
Published by Little Ann Music / BMI
8 'The beer at Dorsey's Bar'
••
Written by R. Lane and D. Morrison
Published by Tree Publishing Company Inc. / BMI
9 'Bedroom ballad' •••
Written by Joe Allen
Published by Tree Publishing Company Inc. / BMI
10 'Beautiful you'
Written by Joe Eddie Gough
Published by Little Ann Music / BMI
'I can't help it (if I'm still in love with you)', 'Circle driveway', 'The heart of a clown' & 'After the party' (tracks indicated thus
•) feature 'The Nashville
Edition' (Joseph Babcock, Dolores Edgin, Wendellyn Suits and Hurshel
Wiginton).
'That evil child' & 'The beer at Dorsey's Bar' (tracks indicated thus
••) feature The Sound 70
Singers (Ronald Drake, Beckie Foster, Allen Henson and Laverna Moore).
'Should I come home (or should I go crazy)', 'Nothing sure looked good on
you' & 'Bedroom ballad' (tracks indicated thus
•••) feature Joseph Babcock, Dolores Edgin, Jeanine Walker
and Hurshel Wiginton.
Gene Watson's version of Hank Williams'
'I can't help it (if I'm still in love with you)' (track indicated thus
*) was included on 'Hank
Williams Tribute' (EMI Records, 1992).
'Hank Williams Tribute' (EMI Records, 1992), was reviewed by Craig Baguley
in the March 1993 issue of Country Music People & you can read it
here.
Hank Williams'
version of 'I can't help it (if I'm still in love with you)'
reached No.2 on the American country music singles chart in 1951.
Fellow country star Doug Supernaw cites Gene Watson
as one of his greatest influences & honoured Gene with
his tasteful rendition of
'Nothing sure looked good on you' (track indicated thus
◊); Doug included the track on 'Fadin' Renegade'
(Tack Records, 1999).
Joe Nichols is a great admirer of Gene Watson
& he honoured Gene with his tasteful rendition of 'Should I come home (or should I go crazy)' (track indicated thus
#); Joe
included the track on 'Joe Nichols III' (Universal South Records, 2005).
Joe Nichols also recorded Gene Watson's 'Farewell party' & included the
track on 'Revelation' (Universal South Records, 2004); the original version
of 'Farewell party' can be found on Gene Watson's 'Reflections'
(Capitol Records, 1978).
Don Williams recorded 'Circle driveway' (track indicated thus¹)
& included the track on 'Portrait' (MCA Records, 1979).
Ray Price recorded
'Circle driveway'
(track indicated thus
¹) & included the track on 'Town
& Country' (Dimension Records, 1981).
On Tuesday 27 January 2009, 'Reflections' (Capitol Records, 1978) was released by
Hux Records (London, England) as a
special 2-on-1 CD, along with 'Should I Come Home' (Capitol Records, 1979).
'Should I Come Home'
Capitol Records ST11947 (1979)
Musician Credits
Rhythm Guitar & Lead Guitar: Harold Bradley
Fiddle: Norman 'Buddy' Spicher
Piano: Hargus 'Pig' Robbins
Drums: Murrey 'Buddy' Harman
Rhythm & Acoustic Guitar: David Kirby RIP
Steel Guitar: Sonny Garrish
Bass: Joe Allen
Electric Guitar: Dale Sellers
Steel Guitar on 'Beautiful You': Lloyd Green
Fiddle on 'Beautiful You': Tommy Williams
Drums on 'Beautiful You': Kenneth Malone