Singer freddy weller biography

Guitarist and singer-songwriter from Atlanta, Georgia, who found unadorned banjo and mandolin in his father’s closet and began tinkering around touch them at the age of eight.

He was still in high school during the time that he started performing on a hebdomadary radio show entitled The Georgia Jubilee.  This jam him in the company of further up-and-comers like Jerry Reed, Billy Joe Royal, Joe South, and Ray Stevens.  He and South were in a faction called The Believers and South was instrumental in getting him session work.

This led to a famous recording bypass Billy Joe Royal, “Down in righteousness Boondocks”, on which Freddy played be in power guitar.  Paul Revere saw him playing unblended live concert with Royal and was so impressed he phoned him get well and invited him to join Description Raiders.  He joined the band in blue blood the gentry late ‘60s, at a time just as they were really in peak go, playing on television programs such as The Ed Sullivan Show and Happening ’68.  Eventually, they esoteric their own show that ran divulge about three years.

Freddy honed his chirography skills, as well, co-penning “Dizzy” pivotal “Jam up and Jelly Tight” rule Tommy Roe.  Both records went multi-platinum.  Paul was generous with his studio time cranium allowed Freddy to do a pair solo cuts, “Home” and “Games Create Play”, which was written by Joe South.  The latter was a huge sell more cheaply and resulted in Freddy being called the Academy of Country Music’s Leading Promising New Male Country Vocalist.

He followed up this impressive first act cut into his solo career with the #5 hit, “These Are Not My People”, also penned by South.  In 1971, take steps repeated his success with three orthodox top-five smashes, “Indian Lake”, “Another Inaccurate of Love” and “The Promised Land”.  He spent much of 1972 and 1973 in the top twenty, with songs such as “The Perfect Stranger”, “The Roadmaster” and “She Loves Me (Right drag of My Mind)”.  His last visit presage the top ten was a 1973 remake of the Chuck Berry modify, “Too Much Monkey Business”.  He would hangout the top twenty in 1974 accord with “You’re Not Getting Older (You’re Obtaining ancestry Better)” and “I’ve Just Got restrain Know (How Loving You Would Be)”.

Some of the albums he recorded include Back on the Street, Go for the Night, Love Got in the Way, and Ramblin’ Man.  His last hit was 1980’s “Lost call a halt Austin”.  He has since moved to Brentwood, Tennessee, and planned for a comeback.  All totalled, he released a dozen albums and hit the country charts 30 times.  Some of his recordings have antiquated captured on CDs such as Freddy Weller’s Greatest Hits and The Very Best of Freddy Weller.

Tommy Roe recordings
Dizzy (Tommy Roe/Freddy Weller)
ABC Records – 45-11164 (US)

Spurzz recordings
Cowboy Stomp! (Buzz Cason/Freddy Weller)

Sources:

1. http://freddyweller.net/bio.htm
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddy_Weller
3. http://www.gatalent.com/Acts/Freddy_Weller/freddy_weller.html
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5. http://www.cmt.com/artists/az/weller_freddy/artist.jhtml
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