Back In the Day, 1965

Del Reeves

...Sings Girl On the Billboard   LP

(United Artists Records)

Bird-dogging may be less conspicuous now than in Opry icon Del's heyday, but biological compulsions endure unmitigated. (Without them, I wouldn't be writing these words and you wouldn't be reading them.) Winking tracks loped in a season when flirtations were acknowledged as compliments. (Del followed this with the jocular "Women Do Funny Things To Me.") The steer-horned and chrome-festooned drop-top in which Del's chuckling rakishness cruised was as first-chair as any Nashville offered. Such was their Country-fried succulence that these songs populated innumerable truck stop jukes. (On Amazon, the unopened platter is priced at $201.00.) 

"They say that hemlines are gonna be much shorter this year / That sounds like mighty sweet music to my ear. I wouldn't have you to thinkin' I'm the wrong kinda guy / I just sorta got an eye  for the finer things in life."

Recommended: "Girl On the Billboard," "Eyes Don't Come Crying To Me," "Strangers," "Three-Time Loser," "Nothing To Write Home About," "Belles of Southern Bell," "I've Got a Tiger By the Tail," "I'm a Long Way From Home," "The Race Is On"

Video: "Girl On the Billboard" / "Belles of the Southern Bell" (live on 1965 TV)

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