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Thursday, January 19, 2012

Laney Hicks (Smallwood)



* Tuscaloosa, AL
by Praguefrank, Russell Rosen, Lennart Gustavsson
SESSIONS
September 1977 [demo session] Columbia recording Studio, 34 Musc Sq. East, Nashville, TN – Laney Smallwood
unknown demo tracks
October 1977 Nashville, TN - Laney Smallwood (Producer: Carmol Taylor)
001 HE'LL SING THE BLUES  Monument 45-237
002 Q10S-4708 I’M SURE TO CRY 45-255 /Country Music Time 603
003 Q10S-4709 UNDERCOVER MAN Monument 45-237
March 1978 Nashville, TN - Laney Smallwood (Producer: Carmol Taylor)
004 R3S-4806 THAT I LOVE YOU, YOU LOVE ME TOO SONG  45-255/ Country Music Time 603
Poss. from this session:
005 LITTLE GIRLS NEED DADDYS Country Music Time 603
September 1978 Nashville, TN - Laney Smallwood (Producer: Carmol Taylor)
006 R9S-4891  LET‘S FALL IN LOVE AGAIN  45-271
007 R9S-4892? WE GOT A LOVE THING   45-271
October 1980 Nashville, TN - Charlie McCoy and Laney Smallwood (Laney Hicks [vcl], Charlie McCoy [harmonica] + unknown musicians).Producer: Charlie McCoy)
008 T10W-5023 UNTIL THE NIGHTS Monument M21001
009 I LOVE THE WAY YOU LOVE ME M21001
1982 Nashville, TN - Charlie McCoy and Laney Hicks (Laney Hicks [vcl], Charlie McCoy [harmonica] + unknown musicians).Producer: Charlie McCoy)
010 JUST DOIN‘ NOTHIN’WITH YOU (IS REALLY SOMETHIN‘)WS4-03518
011 THE STATE OF OUR UNION WS4-03518
Laney Hicks recorded some album in the 2000s. Some info in albums list


ALBUMS
Hicks 01 Matters Of The Heart - You Do The Steel:
Half A Mind; I Miss You Already; My Baby's Gone; Mr Record Man; Take Me As I Am (Or Let Me Go); I'd Be A Legend In My Time; Am I That Easy To Forget; I'm All Wrapped Up In You; That's All That Matters; You Don't Have Very Far To Go – 9- (also issued with bonus track -  Love Like This (With Buddy Emmons) reissued in 2006)
Hicks 02 A Tribute To Connie: Ain't Had No Lovin'; Cry Cry Cry; I Don't Know Why I Keep Loving You; If I Talk To Him; Tiny Blue Transistor Radio; Darling Are You Ever Coming Home; Nobody But A Fool; Then And Only Then; Deepening Snow; I'll Come Running; I'll Never Get Over Lovin' You; I Can't Remember; Hurtin's All Over; Once A Day – 9- (reissued in 2006)
Hicks 03 The Last Letter: I'm Little But I'm Loud; Invitation To The Blues; Heart Over Mind; There Goes My Everything; Last Letter; Faded Love; Just One Time; Take These Chains From My Heart; Little Girls Need Daddys; Cowboy Song – 01 (reissued in 2006. Recorded: Cindarell Sound, Nashville, TN. Russ Hicks [ld gt/steel], Charlie McCoy [bass/piano/harmonica], Gene Chrisman [drums], Hoot Hester [fiddle/ac gt].)
Hicks 04 Softly And Tenderly: In The Garden; Farther Along; Nothing But The Blood; Help Me To Stand; Satisfied; Holy Ground; I Love The Way; Praise Our Lord; Father's Son; Only Time For Love; What'a Ya' Say; Softly And Tenderly – 06?
Hicks 05 Laney Smallwood: Once A Day; You Ain't Woman Enough; Apartment No 9; Hurtin's All Over; I'll Come Running – 06? (Early Recordongs)


SINGLES
Monument (1977-81) as Laney Smallwood
45-237 Undercover Man/He'll Sing The Blues – 11-77
45-255 That “I Love You, You Love Me Too Song“ / I’m Sure To Cry - 05-78
45-271 We Got A Love Thing / Let's Fall In Love Again – 11-78
M-21001 Until The Nights / I Love The Way You Love Me – 09-09-81 w. Charlie McCoy (as Laney Smallwood)
WS4-03518 Just Doin‘ Nothin’With You (Is Really Somethin‘) / The State Of our Union – 01-83 w. Charlie McCoy 
 
TRANSCRIPTIONS DISCS
US Air Force - Country Music Time No. 603 Laney Smallwood
:  I’m Sure To Cry; That “I Love The Way You Love Me“ Love Song; Little Girls Need Daddys – ca 03-79 (MX 75726; studio recordings)
 
 

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Michel Ruppli, not only for his books which I use daily, but also for a large amount of rare and unpublished data from his giant archive.
Thanks to all my friends - country music fans - in Czech Republic - Vladimir Pikora, Michal Gololobov, Milos Holecek, Tony Foglar, Rene Pavlik and Petr Vitous.
Thanks to Mario Manciotti for sending session details daily
Thanks to Kurt Rokitta for a lot of session info
Thanks to Bill Daniels for sharing a lot of labels info
Thanks to Lillies Ohlsson for many western swing contributions.
Thanks to Dick Grant for many artists files
Thanks to Thieu Van De Vorst for a lot of additions and corrections
Thanks to Goran Adolph for many rare albums info
Thanks to Hans Sandberg for many rare session data
Thanks to Chris Huskey for many sessions info.
Thanks to Kittra Moore for musicians and recording data
Thanks to Dik de Heer for many additions on rockabilly.
Thanks to Luiz Roberto Costa for helping me with the western genre.
Thanks to Wolf Ruediger Sommer, who not only sent me additional data, but is also watch-dog, correcting my typos and other errors.
Thanks to Robert Platt for priceless info on Canadian (but not only) artists.
Thanks to Phil Watson for hard work on Crown Prince of country music discography. Thanks to Walter Gabriel for filling the gaps in track listings of rare albums and various artists compilations.
Thanks to Kent Heineman for many independent recordings info
Thanks to Ken Nelson for bluegrass and more additions.
Thanks to Tony Middleton for RCA session info.
Thanks to Xavier Maire for interesting additions and for info on his website www.bopping.org.
Thanks to Henk Scholts for long time cooperation.
Thanks to Richard Price for miscellaneous session information
Thanks to Carl G. Cederblad for additions to sessionographies
Thanks to Paul Urbahns, Marc Alesina, Bill Millet, Bengt Wahlström, John Morris, Dominique Anglares, Pierre Monnery, Jeremy Roberts, Ben Collins, Alex Frazer-Harrison, K.F.Raizor, Ed Tabor, Mario Wildner, Ole Skjoldhøj, Eileen Sisk, Per Kammersgaard, David Bussey, Bill Marks for rare info on their favorite artists.
Thanks to Reginald Bartlette for info and additions of Columbia custom numbers.
Thanks to Katarina Fromm for various singles info.
Thanks to many others who sent some info - all are important.
Thanks to Richard Weize for his idea to produce projects, which have small commercial potential, but huge value for collectors - I spend a lot of money buying boxes and CDs, sometimes mainly because of the accompanying discographies.
Thanks also to Patrick Milligan, who created many discographies for Bear Family projects
Thanks to Marek Bozickovic for picture in head
And last but not least I would like to thank all who visit this blog - they come from more than 100 countries.