Country Music Cover Songs: Songs That Charted (Top-20) Twice: Carlisles, No Help Wanted

Country Music Cover Songs: Songs That Charted (Top-20) Twice: Carlisles' No Help Wanted

• Always Late ~ Lefty Frizzell (#1, 1951), Dwight Yoakum (#9, 1988)
• Am I That Easy to Forget ~ Carl Belew (#9, 1959), Skeeter Davis (#11, 1960), Jim Reeves (#12, 1973)
• Bouquet of Roses ~ Eddy Arnold (#1, 1948), Mickey Gilley (#1, 1975)
• Buming Around ~ Jimmy Dean (#5, 1952), T. Texas Tyler (#5, 1953)
• Candy Kisses ~ George Morgan (#1, 1949), Elton Britt (#4, 1949), Red Foley (#4, 1949), Cowboy Copas (#5, 1949), Eddy Kirk (#9, 1949), Bud Hobbs (#12, 1949)
• City Lights ~ Ray Price (# 1, 1958), Nickey Gilley (#1, 1974)
• Deck of Cards ~ T. Texas Tyler (#2, 1948), Tex Ritter (#10, 1948)
• Divorce Me C.O.D ~ Merle Travis (#), King Sisters (#), Johnny Bond (#)
• Don't Let the Stars ~ Skeets McDonald (#1, 1952), Slim Willet (#1, 1952), Ray Price (#4, 1952), Red Foley (#8, 1953)
• Faded Love ~ Bob Wills (#8, 1950), Patsy Cline (#7, 1963)
• Filipino Baby ~ Ernest Tubb (#2, 1946), Cowboy Copas (#4, 1946), T. Texas Tyler (#5, 1946), Texas Jim Robertson (#5, 1946)
• Have I Told You lately That I Love You ~ Gene Autry (#3, 1946), Tex Ritter (#3, 1946), Foy Willing (#4, 1946), Red Foley w/ Ray Ross (#5, 1946)
• Hey Joe ~ Carl Smith (#1, 1953), Kitty Wells (#8, 1953)
• Honky Tonk Man ~ Johnny Horton (#9, 1956, #11, 1962), Dwight Yoakam (# 3, 1986)
• I Can't Stop Loving You ~ Kitty Wells (#3, 1958), Don Gibson (#7, 1958), Conway Twitty (#1, 1972)
• I Love You Because ~ Leon Payne (#1, 1950), Ernest Tubb (#2, 1950), Clyde Moody (#8, 1950), Carl Smith (#14, 1969), Johnny Cash (#20, 1960)
• I Will Always Love You ~ Dolly Parton (#1, 1974, #1, 1982)
• I'm a One Woman Man ~ Johnny Horton (#7, 1956), George Jones (#5, 1989)
• Make the World Go Away ~ Eddy Arnold (#1, 1965), Ray Price (#2, 1963)
• No Help Wanted ~ Carlisles (#1, 1953), Hank Thompson (#9, 1953)
• Oh Lonesome Me ~ Don Gibson (#1, 1958), Johnny Cash (#13, 1961)
• Rainbow at Midnight ~ Carlisle Brothers (#5, 1946), Ernest Tubb (#1, 1947), Texas Jim Robertson (#5, 1947)
• Room Full of Roses ~ George Morgan (#4, 1949), Sons of the Pioneers (#10, 1949), Mickey Gilley (#1, 1974)
• She's Got You ~ Patsy Cline (#, 1962), Loretta Lynn (#1, 1977)
• Slipping Around ~ Margaret Whiting & Jimmy Wakely (#1, 1949), Ernest Tubb (#1, 1949), Floyd Tillman (#5, 1949)
• That's the Way Love Goes ~ Johnny Rodriguez (#1, 1974), Merle haggard (#1, 1984)
• That's What makes the Jukebox Play ~ Jimmy Work (#6, 1955), Moe Bandy (#11, 1978)
• Too Late to Worry, Too Blue to Try ~ Al Dexter (#1, 1944), Texas Jim Lewis (#3, 1944, Ronnie Millsap (#6, 1975)
• Too Old to Cut the Mustard ~ Carlisles (#6, 1952), Ernest Tubb (#5, 1952)
• You're the Reason ~ Bobby Edwards (#4, 1961), Hank Locklin (#14, 1961)

About Bill "Jumping Bill" Carlisle: (December 19, 1908 ~March 17, 2003): Country Singer, Yodeler, Songwriter, Guitarist. Bill was the younger brother of musician Cliff Carlisle. During the 1930s He established himself as a blues singer and in the 1950s as a member of the Carlisle's.'

In 1933 Bill joined the ARC Record label and released his first single, "Rattlesnake Daddy." In the late 1930s Bill signed with Decca Records and released, "Copperhead Mama" and "Jerkin Blues." Throughout the 1930s and 1940s Carlisle worked for several radio stations based in Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Georgia. In 1946 Bill released the hit, "Rainbow At Midnight" (No. 5, 1946) with brother Cliff. In 1950 Cliff retired and Bill had a hit with, "Tramp on The Street" (No. 14, 1948). Also that year Bill organized the Carlisles' and went to Knoxville to work for Chet Atkins and others.

During the 1950s Carlisle signed with Mercury Records and recorded the songs, "Too Old to Cut The Mustard" (No. 6, 1951), "No Help Wanted" (No. 1, 1953) and "Taint Nice (To Talk Like That)" (No. 5, 1953). In 1953 he joined the Grand Ole Opry. In 1965 they had a hit with, "What Kind Of Deal Is This" (No. 4, 1965). Bill continued to entertain up throughout the 1990s. ~ RJB: Country Music Historian, 9/2010

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[jimbobsmajor]

hahaha never heard this song before, and it is sweet. glad I found it. Its pretty funny. 

[jtls8]

Reading your list of the great cover songs and they was some good ones!!!!