Jerry Wallace ~ If You Leave Me Tonight I'll Cry

[HistoryofTek]

this sounds like a different jerry wallace version than the night gallery one....

[5171967cafk]

@HistoryofTek ........yep it is hun, the one on The NG epsd is a some kind of derivitive of the original song, probably, anyway :/ Still neat to hear it....

[JUDA59ful]

I always liked this song.JUDA59ful

[06dufus]

i can recall hearing it on night gallery...love the song

[mkl62]

The only #1 song of Jerry Wallace's career. It was the 236th #1 C&W song of the Rock Era. It also hit #3 on the Canadian RPM Country Tracks charts and #38 on both the Top 40 and Canadian Pop charts. When this song hit #1, I was still mourning the sudden loss of my grandfather (August 16, 1972). Besides farming, he also played the fiddle. He played at square dances in the area and at his home. To Jerry and PaPa, thank you for the memories. We love you and miss you both.

[MrTammywynettefan]

I first heard this in "Rod Serling's Night Gallery. I loved the song, of course that TV show really made a big hit for Jerry Wallace!!! I'll always remember this song:)

[CrashingCrockery]

When I FINALLY found this LP after years of obsessing on the way cool "till Death" "Night Gallery" version it was SO refreshing to finally hear the rest of the lyrics! You can sort of hear them when the cops have the thief in the diner, but they are shouting over them. And the instrumental bridge is just so cool with all the glass breaking in slow motion...

[TDS4UT]

Is the Night Gallery version of this song posted on You Tube anywhere. It was just the one vocal, no chorus. And it didn't have an orchestra, just a small combo country band. It was played on the story "The Tune in Dan's Cafe" on Rod Serling's Night Gallery.

[mhitchc938]

@TDS4UT Yes, under Night Gallery. Parnell Roberts part 1 and 2 "Dan's Cafe.

[garytvfan]

I interviewed Jerry sometime between 1971 and '74 during my first radio gig (I was between 16-19 years old). Jerry told me on this particular song, the "Night Gallery" producers wanted a similar sound to Johnny Mathis. He also said that people would just request the "Til Death, Til Death" song (as it stuck on that line on the "Night Gallery" episode), not knowing its' title. Great song!

[chairmanofthebored1]

@Lester1Beck Hulu has it.

[pappa441]

@Lester1Beck Jerry Wallace did it. He hated the song and didn't want to do it when hihs manager told him he was recording it for the show, turned out to be one of his better recordings. The song played over and over during the show. Loved it.Anyway that's what he told my wife back in the late 1980's when he stoped at the little place she worked at in the Mojave Deaert on his way to Las Vegas. He signed the album with it for her for me.

[sleepytimegalz]

still like to listen to this once in a while....phyllis...

[mystermyke1]

good music

[flashbell]

@CONRADI861 , Stop spaming my channel or I'm going to report you to Youtube.

[maeault]

I first heard this song in 1973 on Night Gallery - The Tune in Dan's Cafe".

Loved it then love it now.

It was the music to my first divorce.

[knt3119]

@maeault Thats where I first heard it too. I will always associate this with Night Gallery. Never knew the name of the episode. "The tune in Dan's Cafe" Thanks, I'll remember that...

[san5sparkle]

@knt3119 yes I remember it well and I am 67

[JEMCO2008]

@knt3119 me too I am now 60 1/2 years I am trying to find the clipp of dan's cafe take care from Earl

[satisfaction2000]

@JEMCO2008 you can find the original on the website Rod Serling's Night Gallery...there are music links for some of the episodes,including this one. good luck.

[maeault]

I loved this song the first time I heard it on "Night Gallery - TheTune in Dan's Cafe" in 1973.

What a great Halloween find!

[jrdill1929]

@Lester1Beck That's where I remember it from.

[romagman]

@Lester1Beck , You know ? I think you are do right. Sorry for my mistake.. I belong to a free site called:" Hulu " It plays the old tv shows, movies, night gallery, outer limits on and on. I just got done seeing that night gallery classic " The Tune at Dan's Cafe " Its 3 stories in one if you remembered.

[romagman]

@Lester1Beck , I believe it was Jerry Wallace, just that you know hollywood they skip out the background .

[kibblebits54]

i still have his lp's in storage

thanks for the wonderful post

[1956lakota]

Loved this song ever since I heard it on Night Gallery or the Twilight Zone??????

[shaggieboy]

@1956lakota It was on an episode of twilight zone, it skipped every time it came to "till death , till death , till death when the jukebox that was playing this song was hit at this point in the song by a bullet.

[jalollybad]

This is a song of reality.

[JubalCalif]

I was a teen when I saw the episode of "Night Gallery" hat featured this song. At the time I didn't know who the late great Mr Wallace was. My untrained ear thought the record playing in the juke box in that episode was Nat King Cole. They do sound similar....but as I grew older, I realized it was only do a very small degree. The late great Mr Cole had a definitely lower & huskier voice. What a talented performer Mr Wallace was....how sad that he's no longer with us. THANKS for posting !!!

[CrashingCrockery]

@JubalCalif Jerry lived in Arizona, or at least for a time, because some of the songs thay might have been cryptic to some were shockingly familiar to me, living there. He uses place names and towns particular to Arizona, perhaps the most well-known (for us Phoenicians) was "Out Wickenburg Way," Wickenburg being a township where he resided. And the locals there haaated it! He refers to pot and coke and "colored pills," so I am guessing he was getting over an addiction problem, perhaps?

[flashbell]

@CrashingCrockery , I have been searching for Out Wickenburg Way for years. Do you have it?

[CrashingCrockery]

@flashbell Why yes, I do! It was (is) on the album featuring him with very whitish blonde hair, I think with a blue background. I have it on a tape I listen to in the car often (last night in fact). I do have the LP someplace, but it is buried with hundreds of others. I am intrigued someone other than myself has heard it (save for the poor citizens of Wickenburg, for whom it was an anthem years ago, probably forgotten by now!)

[JubalCalif]

@CrashingCrockery

Thanks for the background info, Crock! It's greatly appreciated! CHEERS, mate! :-)

[XEvolutionist]

I remember this song from the Night Gallery episode: The Tune In Dan's Cafe. It was nice to hear the whole song. In the show, it kept stopping at "till death, till death, till death, till death...." X

[otherworldtrader1]

I remember this song as one which once it hit the juke boxes became a favorite slow dance number at about all country dances. It was requested nightly for a long time both in juke joints and dances.

[flashbell]

@otherworldtrader1, It is great to hear real life events regarding thes songs. I wish I had paid more attention.

[otherworldtrader1]

this was one of the kind of songs which would put a touch of loving in a pretty girl

[garytvfan]

I started a long radio career in 1971. Jerry Wallace was my very first interview, live in my studio in 1972. I was 17 years old then, and very timid. Mr. Wallace couldn't have been more kind, patient or accomodating to a "kid" just starting out. We talked extensively about this song, as it was "hot" at the time...he told me that in looking for a person to record this song, the Night Gallery powers that be wanted someone who sounded a bit like Johnny Mathis! Thanks for the memories.

[calhounepiscopal]

Yes I remember it on I believe a Night Gallery Episode. I have not heard this in decades!

[cmsdude2222]

By the way I think this sounds like the version I remrember that played over and over on the juke box.

[cmsdude2222]

I watched the Night Gallery that this was in the first time it showed on TV. It wasn't a hit and I don't think had been played anywhere else. I told the girl I was with I couldn't understand why it hadn't been released and that I thought it would be a hit. It wasn't too long before you started hearing it on the radio.

[mari6741]

I have a vague memory of the Night Gallery" episode "The Tune in Dan's Cafe"... but wasn't it Sam's Cafe? This version is different from the one I remember and I'm thinking it was a different performer. If anyone has connections with TVLand Network,...

[copperhead29]

i have the same remembrance , I wish they would put that back on tv land as opposed to some of the trash they do have. I know Roseanne, and the Cosby show are good shows in their own right, but I don't think they are "Classics"

[canojoe11]

Wish I could see that Night Gallery episode again.

[parrotman1940]

I first met Jerry at a dinner show in Nashville in the early 80s. He was a guest artist for my friend Tommy Overstreet who hosted the show. Jerry was a great singer & person. He will be missed.

[ogalala]

In 1999 Jerry, while sitting in my front room in Barstow, played my Gibson Country Western Model guitar and sang this song and then "In the Misty Moonlight".  Jerry was a good guy, bless his soul.

[JEMCO2008]

Nice tune Thanks for the post

[Redwine735]

I will go and look for Jerry Wallace's records--smooth and worth listening too!

[djwaugust]

You know, he died on his favorite holiday. Hmmm, its kinda funny if you think about it. I must say, whats up with that unnaturally long pause at the very end of the clip?

[CrashingCrockery]

Ah, okay, silly me, I see from reading the "More Info" the song came first, apparently, THEN "Night Gallery" used it, albeit a very simplified, sped-up version for timing, I am sure (given how many times the jukebox PLAYS it!)...

[CrashingCrockery]

I wonder if Jerry RE-recorded this AFTER the "Night Gallery?" I mean, was it popular because of that episode, and people wrote & asked what it was, or where they could find it? The version in the show is much simpler than this full-fledged spruced-up version. I remember a girl in high school said her dad DID in fact write the network, and was told he could obtain a 45 of it, and he did, and it blew my mind to hear it. So which came first, the 45 or the TV version? Anyone know?

[CrashingCrockery]

Oh! And years later, I found a model of that SAME jukebox (a 1960-something Seeburg) from "Night Gallery," it is a radio/tape player, and guess what the loop is on the cassette tape which is ALWAYS in it?  Hee! "'till death" (crunch) "'till death" (crunch) "'till death..."

[CrashingCrockery]

AH RAPTURE! To FINALLY hear "The Tune in Dan's Cafe" song and TELL WHAT HE IS SAYING! As a 10 year old I thought the record skipping was saying "tilted." It still scared the hell out of me, & I have ALWAYS loved spooky-abandoned-roadside-cafe­-and-motel movies ever since. And "Red" (the girlfriend) SHRIEKING in the end have to be the best two Universal Pictures scream sound effects I have ever, EVER heard.

[barbf0429]

this is music at its best...thank you for sharing it....

[davesharon1]

I didn't know he died last year!!

[amicarot]

Simply wonderful. This song of Jerry Wallace brings back old memories of days gone by. Thank you

[leopoldmozart]

For the last 36 years, the memory of this song scared the piss out of me. Now that I'm hearing it as an adult, it's actually a perky soulful pre-outlaws country song. Thanks a million for posting this!

[JEMCO2008]

GREAT song thanks for the [post James Earl

[wbhiccup]

I too have been haunted by this song since hearing it, over and over, in "The Tune in Dan's Cafe" many decades ago, but couldn't remember which Jerry sang it - Vale, Butler, Reed...aha, Wallace! Thanks for the memories. And for those who aren't acquainted with the "Night Gallery" episode, the juke box at Dan's wouldn't play any other song, and in the end, she apparently did take his heart!

[broncose1]

Guess I have heard it huh.See I commented before--Wasn't sure. Shirley

[broncose1]

Wow I didn't know this one was on. I love it.

5*****'s thank you J.T. for sending. Boy Flashbell knows his country music,LOL. Thanks

Shirley

[PaulinaRena]

Thanks a million for posting this classic. I have always loved Jerry Butler's voice. My favorite is "In the Misty Moonlight". He does have a terrific voice and certainly deserved the title of "Mr. Smooth". Thanks also for all the information you have given us about Jerry's career. It's such a shame when we think of some of the mediocre entertainers today who are making a fortune and Jerry not getting the big break he should have had. Hard to figure. - Paula

[JoeNarvaez]

I dug this tune the first time I heard it, too--though it took on a "haunting" quality, due to me hearing it on the Night Gallery episode, too! I was about 10 years old, too!

Great stuff!

[10171907]

Great song great Voice

[broncose1]

Haven't heard Jerry in a long time.I love this so much. 5*****'s Thanks J.T.for sending it. Shirley

[formerrocker]

Memorable tune, great singer, one of the best Night Gallery episodes. Thanks for posting!

[norst1]

thanks for all the real country music..i have no idea anymore(since utube)who the singers are today..maybe they will just hopefully vanish

[mrtis007]

the first the i heard this song i was 10 and i like it for the past 30 years i have tried to find it this song is in the movie smokey and the bandit but the first time was watching was from the TV show night gallery the show had too people stop at a dinner the eat but no one was they the juke box played that song then it song stop the lights flicker off and on the if i recall they heard a voice or laughing then the music start playing and that all that i can remember

[fabiomr2]

He will be missed

God Bless him

Rest in Peace

[PistolPete2]

Miss Mael, This song came from an episode entitled

"The Tune In Dave's Cafe", in 1972.

[jtls8]

That was the first time I heard it, didn`t

hear it to much after that tho I really like it.

[VA24541]

Actually, it was Dan's  Cafe.........

[PistolPete2]

This song came from an episode of "Rod Serlings Night Gallery".

[MissMael]

Do you remember which episode?

[VA24541]

It was actually an episode of Night Gallery entitled "The Tune in Dan's Cafe."

[ponyshoe612]

Finally the return of country music! Thanks!

[norst1]

puff..all of a sudden country music disappeard..until you and utube..thanks

[jtls8]

Agree with you flashbell, There is no country

music today. Thank you for sharing your great

classics.