When Swamp Dogg was on The Sound of Young America, he told the story of writing this song, (Don’t Take Her) She’s All I Got, for Johnny Paycheck. It was a #1 country hit, and won “Song of the Year” at the CMAs. The best part was when he described the audible gasp in the crowd when they realized that the Jerry Williams, Jr. who’d written the tune was a portly 5’8” black guy who was probably better known as Swamp Dogg, a soul singer who recorded songs like “California is Drowning and I Live Down By The River” and made album covers with pictures of him sitting in his underpants in a pile of garbage and riding a giant rat.
Anyway, great song.
this song, video and backstory is, in fact, the shit.
i bought six albums last week and this is the only one i seem to want to listen to (in fairness, three were replacements for albums lost, given away and/or burnt).
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
Jonathan Richman | That Summer Feeling
finally bought this and the modern lovers album today off amazon ($5 each). perfect way to drain a gift card.
EDIT: also got the new wild beasts, destroyer, and the do albums, and i also replaced hunky dory (which i had given away). great haul.
(cheated on the do spelling because I don’t know how to do it correctly…)
