Frankie Laine - OLD DOGS, CHILDREN AND WATERMELON WINE

[peejay33950]

lots of singers have had hits with country songsbut would NEVER be called country The lists is endless,if they are a pop /ballad singer they recorded country songs

[Tom1948]

Great sentimental song. Wonderful version.

[markalson1938]

You may be right, but then how did Dean Martin

(Crocetti) get on there?

I guess Frankie just wanted to add a personnel touch to his version.

[highnrising]

Perhaps Nashville was more open to accepting pop singers who had "WASP" backgrounds than urban ethnics from Chicago with names like Lovecchio.

BTW-- I love the way Frankie changed the TV show that was playing from "Ironsides" in the Tom T. Hall rendition to "Rawhide"!

[ra9922]

they just could not think of him as country.but he was everything.

[markalson1938]

no they couldn't. but if you look in the book

of "Top 40 Country Hits" by Joel Whitburg, there are several Pop singers of that period listed in it.