CLOSING THE GAP
Side 1: Oklahoma Hills; Pretty Piece Of Paper; Midnight Wind; San Antonio
Rose; Soldier's Last Letter; Wayfarin' Stranger
Side 2: Ride 'Em, Cowboy; Softly And Tenderly; Tie Me To Your Apron Strings
Again; Won't You Ride In My Little Red Wagon; Treasure Untold; Sneakin'
In The Back Door Of Love; Little Buckaroo
Produced and arranged by James Hendricks
On the back of the album is the following:
See Michael Parks every week on the NBC Television Network as he plays
Jim Bronson in THEN CAME BRONSON.
Bronson is a restless young man on leave of absence from The Establishment.
He's free, and he roams the country on a motorcycle. Bronson prefers straight
lines to crooked angles. What he doesn't need he doesn't want - and for
the necessities of life he works. Like Michael Parks, he prefers honest
people and simple pleasures like country music.
Harley-Davidson Sportster Motorcycle
MGM SE-4646
[8-track tape catalog #: MGM M 84646]
LONG LONESOME HIGHWAY
Side 1: Mountain High; California's Fine; Yonder Comes The Blues; Sunshine
Showers; Big 'T' Water; Summer Days
Side 2: Long Lonesome Highway;
My Melancholy Baby; I Think Of You; Re-enlistment Blues
Produced and arranged by James Hendricks
MGM SE-4662
[8-track tape catalog #: MGM M 84662]
BLUE
Side 1: Beautiful Means You; Save A Little, Spend A Little (Give A Little
Away); No One To Cry To; Cold, Cold Heart
Side 2: Sally (Was A Gentle Woman); Lonely And Blue; I Can't Help
It (If I'm Still In Love With You); Born To Lose; There's Been A Change
In Me; I Come To The Garden
Produced and arranged by James Hendricks
MGM SE-4717
[8-track tape catalog #: MGM M 84717]
LOST AND FOUND
Side 1: Lost And Found; Sweet Misery; Statue Of A Fool; I Let You Take
Advantage; Look Down That Lonesome Road
Side 2: Turn Around Little Mama; I Was Born In Kentucky; Medley: I'm So
Lonesome I Could Cry/It's You/When I've Learned/Farther Along
Executive Producer: Ken Mansfield;
All Selections Arranged by Larry Butler except "Farther Along", [which was] Arranged by Tom Sparkman.
V6-5079
THE BEST OF MICHAEL PARKS
Side 1: Big "T" Water; I Was Born In Kentucky; Sally (Was A Gentle Woman);
Sneakin' In The Back Door Of Love; Statue Of A Fool
Side 2: Mountain High; Long Lonesome Highway; Tie Me To Your Apron Strings
Again; There's Been A Change In Me; Sing That Song Again
"The recordings in this album were previously released on MGM SE-4662,
SE-4717, SE-4718*, SE-4646 and Verve V6-5079 with one exception: "Sing That
Song Again" has not been released previously."
*(This album, SE-4718, is a compilation album, entitled "The Core Of Rock, Volume 2." My source on this is the book, Goldmine Price Guide to Collectible Record Albums, Fifth Edition, by Ned Umphred, published in 1996 by Krause Publications. I also remember seeing the album in a record store several years ago.)
MGM SE-4784
YOU DON'T KNOW ME
Side 1: Sweethearts Or Strangers; You Don't Know Me; Autumn Leaves; Worried Over You; My Window Faces The South; Keep Me In Mind
Side 2: Don't Go To Strangers; Makes No Diff'rence Now; Poor Butterfly; Weary Blues From Waiting; Street Of Dreams
Musicians: Byron Berline, Billy Berry, Bob Bertaux, James Burton, Thumbs Carllile, Chuck Cowan, Jim Hughart, Lou Kaboc, Mundell Lowe, Dave Mackay, Nick Seroli, Carl Walden, Billy Walker, and Tammy McGregor [vocal on Keep Me In Mind]
Produced by Virginia Carllile
[copyright] 1980 M.P. Records/P.O. Box 0/Tarzana, CA 91356
Catalog # MP11
{The album was later released on First American Records (in 1981, catalog # FA 7781), located in Washington state.}
COOLIN' SOUP
Big River (2:43); I'll Never Be Free (6:10); Moulin Rouge (2:48); I Gotta Have My Baby Back (5:51); Rockin' Chair (3:22); I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter (2:23); Make Love To Me (4:41); It's Such a Good Day (4:04); Basin Street Blues (3:49); On the Street Where You Live (4:46); Just For a Thrill (3:30); Easy Street (3:15); Don't Go To Strangers (4:00); Down New Orleans Way (3:58); Texas Plains (4:24); Together Again (2:34); But Beautiful (5:25)
17 songs, over 67 minutes of Michael Parks! Worth every penny!
Executive Producer: Bill Lairamore
Produced by Chuck Cowan
Mike Thompson - Drums
Chuch Cowan - Guitars (& additional vocals on ...Write Myself a Letter)
Ken Pester - Trumpet
Byron Berline - Fiddle
Gerald Spaits - Bass
Tim Brewer - Bass
Russ Long - Piano (& additional vocals on ...Write Myself a Letter)
Jim Snyder - Piano
This is on CD only, # US001, from Listen Recordings, Inc., P.O. Box 35161, Las Vegas, NV 89133-5161
www.michaelparks.com
SINGLES BY MICHAEL PARKS
LONG LONESOME HIGHWAY, MGM Records #K14104 (L1160), From The M-G-M TV Series
"Then Came Bronson" ([words & music:] James Hendricks); [artist:] MICHAEL
PARKS; Produced & Arranged by James Hendricks, Hastings Music Corp.
& Rivers Music Co., BMI, [time:] 2:00
Flip side: MOUNTAIN HIGH, MGM Records #K14104 (L1157), From The M-G-M TV
Series "Then Came Bronson" ([words & music:] James Hendricks); [artist:]
MICHAEL PARKS; Produced & Arranged by James Hendricks, Rivers Music
Co., BMI, [time:] 2:49
Note: the times for the songs on this single do not match the times listed on the LP, LONG LONESOME HIGHWAY, but I don't know whether these are different versions. Also, the DJ version gives "MOUNTAIN HI" as the flip side title.
TIE ME TO YOUR APRON STRINGS AGAIN (2:52) / same title (2:14)
Description:7" -- MGM K14092 (L 1049) / MGM K14092 (106,514) - yellow dj labels
Prod. & Arr. By James Hendricks
Note: two different versions, two different time lengths
MISCELLANEOUS RECORDINGS
THEN CAME BRONSON
Capitol Records (S) 2672
[I found this item listed in a book on Collectible TV and movie soundtrack records. Guessing that it came out about 1969, I checked Billboard Magazine. I found that the numbering format indicated a single, not an LP. I did not find it on the charts, but I did find Capitol 2674, an Al Martino song, on the singles chart for January 3, 1970, in its third week, so 2672 was probably released in November or December of 1969.
JAMES HENDRICKS
Side 1: California's Fine; Glory Train; Muddy River; Ride 'Em Cowboy; Summer Days
Side 2: Big "T" Water; Weary Blues From Waitin'; Honky Tonk Blues; Softly And Tenderly; Blue Yodel No. 10
Produced and arranged by James Hendricks
MGM Records SE-4768
SONGS OF JAMES HENDRICKS
Side 1: I Think Of You; Big Wheels; Colorado Rocky Mountains; Good Goodbye; Sunshine Showers; You Don't Know My Mind
Side 2: City Ways; Lily Of The Valley; Summer Rain; Look To Your Soul; Shady Green Pastures
Produced by Johnny Rivers
All selections written by James Hendricks
At a time when music has gone to its limit with mechanical, electrical and gimmick sounds, there comes from the Colorado Rocky Mountains a breath of fresh air. In these troubled, materialistic times, there is a great need for songs like those of James Hendricks. Johnny Rivers
SOUL CITY SCS-92003 (LIBERTY RECORDS)
LONG LONESOME HIGHWAY
[45 rpm single]
Side 1: Long Lonesome Highway (1:45)
Side 2: Long Lonesome Highway (1:45)
Produced by Scott Turner
Photo by Don Putnam
Nashville, 1976
Written and performed by James Hendricks
Starcrest Records GRT-060 (4367)
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