Buck Owens Sings Harlan Howard is an album by Buck Owens

Buck Owens

Alvis Edgar Owens, Jr. , better known as Buck Owens, was an American singer and guitarist who had 21 No. 1 hits on the Billboard country music charts with his band, the Buckaroos...

, released in 1961.

Harlan Howard

Harlan Howard

Harlan Perry Howard was a prolific American songwriter, principally in country music. In a career spanning six decades, Howard wrote a large number of popular and enduring songs, recorded by a variety of different artists...

 wrote many of Buck Owens' biggest hits, including "I've Got a Tiger By the Tail

I've Got a Tiger By the Tail

"I've Got a Tiger By the Tail" is a song made famous by country music band Buck Owens and the Buckaroos. Released in December 1964, the song became one of Owens' signature songs and showcases of the Bakersfield sound in the genre.-About the song:...

," "Above and Beyond," "Excuse Me (I Think I've got a Heartache)," and "Under the Influence of Love".

The CD re-issue in 1997 by Sundazed Records

Sundazed Records

Sundazed Records is a record label based in Coxsackie, in the Catskills of New York. It specializes in obscure and rare recordings from the 1950s to the 1970s.Label founders Bob Irwin and his wife Mary started the label in 1989...

 includes "Foolin' Around", the single that reached Number two on the Billboard

Billboard charts

The Billboard charts tabulate the relative weekly popularity of songs or albums in the United States. The results are published in Billboard magazine...

 Country singles charts.

Track listing

All songs by Harlan Howard unless otherwise noted.

1. "Foolin' Around" (Howard, Buck Owens) – 2:37
2. "Heartaches for a Dime" – 2:27
3. "Heartaches by the Number
   Heartaches by the Number
   "Heartaches by the Number" is a popular and country song written by Harlan Howard and published in 1959.The biggest hit version was recorded by Guy Mitchell on August 24, 1959. It reached the #1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 for the weeks of December 14 and December 21, 1959. The recording was...
   
   " – 2:28
4. "Let's Agree to Disagree" (Howard, Owens) – 2:22
5. "Keeper of the Key" (Ken Devine, Lance Guynes, Harlan Howard, Beverly Stewart) – 2:32
6. "I Don't Believe I'll Fall in Love Today" – 2:22
7. "Pick Me Up on Your Way Down" – 2:27
8. "I'll Catch You When You Fall" – 2:08
9. "Lyin' Again" – 2:16
10. "The One You Slip Around With" (Howard, Owen) – 2:29
11. "Think It Over" (Owens) – 2:16
12. "Key's in the Mailbox" – 2:26
13. "Foolin' Around" (Howard, Owens) – 2:32

Personnel

• Buck Owens – guitar, vocals, harmony vocals
• Don Rich
  Don Rich
  Donald Eugene Ulrich, best known by the stage name Don Rich was a country musician who helped develop the Bakersfield sound in the early 1960s. He was a noted guitarist and fiddler, and a member of the Buckaroos, the backing band of country singer Buck Owens.-Biography:Donald Eugene Ulrich was...
  
  – guitar, fiddle
• Pee Wee Adams – drums
• Bobby Austin – bass
• George French – piano
• Ralph Mooney – pedal steel guitar
• Jim Pierce – piano
• Jelly Sanders – fiddle
• Wayne Stone – drums
• Allen Williams – bass

Production notes

• Bob Irwin – producer, mastering
• Ken Nelson – producer
• Richard Russell – design

External links

• Reissue review at No Depression magazine.