I've Got a Tiger by the Tail 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...

 and his Buckaroos

The Buckaroos

The Buckaroos were a Grammy-winning band led by Buck Owens in the 1960s and early '70s, who were heavily involved in the development and presentation of the "Bakersfield Sound." Their peak of success was from 1965-1970. In 2005, CMT named the Buckaroos No...

, released in 1965. It reached Number one 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 charts and Number 43 on the Pop Albums charts.

It was re-released on CD in 1995 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...

 with two bonus tracks, both live performances recorded in Bakersfield, CA at the Civic Auditorium in October 1963. The album appears in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die

1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die

1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die is a musical reference book edited by Robert Dimery, first published in 2005. The most recent edition consists of a list of albums released between 1955 and 2010, part of a series from Quintessence Editions Ltd...

.

Side one

1. "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:...
   
   " (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...
   
   , Buck Owens) – 2:12
2. "Trouble and Me" (Howard) – 1:54
3. "Let the Sad Times Roll On" (Owens, Red Simpson
   Red Simpson
   Red Simpson is an American country singer-songwriter best known for his trucker-themed songs.-Biography:Red Simpson was raised in Bakersfield, California, the youngest of a dozen children...
   
   ) – 2:14
4. "Wham Bam" (Buck Owens, Bonnie Owens
   Bonnie Owens
   Bonnie Owens , born Bonnie Campbell, was an American country music singer who was married to Buck Owens and later Merle Haggard.-Biography:...
   
   , 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...
   
   ) – 2:01
5. "If You Fall Out of Love With Me" (Owens, Owens) – 2:15
6. "Fallin' for You" (Owens, Owens, Rich) – 2:01

Side two

1. "We're Gonna Let the Good Times Roll" (Owens) – 2:15
2. "The Band Keeps Playin' On" (Red Simpson, Fuzzy Owen) – 3:02
3. "The Streets of Laredo
   Streets of Laredo (song)
   "Streets of Laredo" , also known as the "Cowboy's Lament", is a famous American cowboy ballad in which a dying cowboy tells his story to a living one. Derived from the English folk song "The Unfortunate Lad", it has become a folk music standard, and as such has been performed, recorded and adapted...
   
   " – 2:55
4. "Cryin' Time
   Crying Time
   "Crying Time" is a song from 1964 written by country music artist Buck Owens.Owens recorded a version of his song, but it failed to reach the music charts. A cover version of "Crying Time" was then recorded by R&B singer Ray Charles, and his version proved to be a hit...
   
   " (Owens) – 2:30
5. "A Maiden's Prayer
   Maiden's Prayer
   "A Maiden's Prayer" is a composition of Polish composer Tekla Bądarzewska-Baranowska , which was published in 1856 in Warsaw, and then as a supplement to the Revue et gazette musicale de Paris in 1859.The piece is a medium difficulty short...
   
   " (Bob Wills
   Bob Wills
   James Robert Wills , better known as Bob Wills, was an American Western Swing musician, songwriter, and bandleader, considered by music authorities as the co-founder of Western Swing and universally known as the pioneering King of Western Swing.Bob Wills' name will forever be associated with...
   
   ) – 2:33
6. "Memphis Tennessee
   Memphis, Tennessee (song)
   "Memphis, Tennessee" is a song by rock & roll singer-songwriter Chuck Berry. It is sometimes shortened to "Memphis". In the UK, the song charted at #6 in 1963, at the same time Decca Records issued a cover version in the UK by Dave Berry and the Cruisers, who came from Sheffield, Yorkshire...
   
   " (Chuck Berry
   Chuck Berry
   Charles Edward Anderson "Chuck" Berry is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter, and one of the pioneers of rock and roll music. With songs such as "Maybellene" , "Roll Over Beethoven" , "Rock and Roll Music" and "Johnny B...
   
   ) – 2:27

1995 bonus tracks:

1. "This Ol' Heart" (Eddie Miller, Bob Morris) – 1:12
2. "Act Naturally" (Johnny Russell
   Johnny Russell
   John Bright "Johnny" Russell was an American country singer, songwriter, and comedian best-known for his song "Act Naturally", which was made famous by Buck Owens, who recorded it in 1963, and The Beatles in 1965...
   
   , Voni Morrison) – 2:28

Personnel

• 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...
  
   – guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
  , 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
  Fiddle
  The term fiddle may refer to any bowed string musical instrument, most often the violin. It is also a colloquial term for the instrument used by players in all genres, including classical music...
  
  , vocals (lead vocal on "Wham Bam")
• Doyle Holly
  Doyle Holly
  Doyle Floyd Hendricks, known by the stage name Doyle Holly was an American musician best known as the bass guitar player of the country music band Buck Owens and the Buckaroos and for his solo hit songs "Queen Of The Silver Dollar" and "Lila". Holly's contributions on bass guitar and rhythm guitar...
  
   – bass, guitar, vocals (lead vocal on "Streets of Laredo")
• Tom Brumley
  Tom Brumley
  Tom Brumley was an American steel guitarist who played with Buck Owens and the Buckaroos in the 1960s, contributing to the group's "Bakersfield sound", and later spent a decade with Rick Nelson.-Biography:...
  
  – pedal steel guitar, guitar
• Willie Cantu – drums
• Mel King – drums
• Bob Morris – bass, vocals
• Jay McDonald – pedal steel guitar
• Jelly Sanders – fiddle, guitar