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Willis Alan Ramsey (born 5 March 1951) is an American singer / songwriter, a cult legend among fans of Americana and Texas country. He was born in Birmingham, Alabama, and raised in Dallas, Texas.
- Willis Alan Ramsey (album)
Willis Alan Ramsey is the sole studio release by the Texas...
- Willis Alan Ramsey (album)
- America Version
- Captain & Tennille Version
- Other Versions
Background
America recorded "Muskrat Love" for their 1973 album Hat Trick, marking the second time America had recorded a song not written by a band member. In putting together ten songs to comprise the eventual Hat Trick album, band members Gerry Beckley, Dewey Bunnell, and Dan Peekhad agreed to each contribute three compositions, with a mutually agreeable cover song being recorded as the 10th track. David Dickey, who played bass for the band, brought Ramsey's "Muskrat Candlelight" to the group's atten...
Release and reception
"Muskrat Love" was issued as an advance single from Hat Trick in early August 1973, although Dan Peek would recall that America's label Warner Bros. "hated" the track and "begged us not to release it as a single...We were stupid to press the issue, but we liked the song for its easy, acoustic, harmonic beauty, not realizing that perhaps it was badly cast for us in order to retain the fairly hip image we had eked out". Peek adds that the single "easily hit the Top 40 on the strength of our pas...
Track listings
1. "Muskrat Love" – 3:06 2. "Cornwall Blank" – 4:19
Background
Captain & Tennille recorded "Muskrat Love" for their 1976 album release Song of Joy. According to Toni Tennille, who formed Captain & Tennille with her husband Daryl Dragon, the duo had added the song to their nightclub set list a few years earlier after hearing the America single on their car radio: "I said to Daryl: 'Did you hear that? I swear they're singing about muskrats.' I had to know what the lyrics were so the next day we went out and found the sheet music. I said to Daryl: 'This son...
Release and reception
Purportedly there were no plans to issue a third single off Song of Joy following the Top Ten success of "Lonely Night (Angel Face)" and "Shop Around"; however, A&M Records decided to issue "Muskrat Love" as a single after WISM, a Madison, Wisconsin radio station that had been airing the album cut, reported phenomenal listener response to the song in September 1976. Captain & Tennille's "Muskrat Love" reached a number 4 Hot 100 peak that December and number 2 on Cash Box. It became their bigg...
Track listings
1. "Muskrat Love" 3:28 2. "Honey Come Love Me" - 2:57
The first cover version of "Muskrat Candlelight" was an abridged version entitled "Sun Down" recorded by Lani Hall for her 1972 album Sun Down Lady. With composition credit to Willis Alan Ramsey and "additional lyrics" credited to Lani Hall and her husband Herb Alpert, "Sun Down" reformats Ramsey's original tune as a straightforward love song, omit...
Willis Alan Ramsey is an American singer/songwriter, a cult legend among fans of Americana and Texas country. He was born in Birmingham, Alabama, and raised in Dallas, Texas. Ramsey graduated from Highland Park High School in 1969, and was a prominent baritone in the school's Lads and Lassies Choir.
20 de mai. de 2022 · Fifty years ago this month, a singer/songwriter named Willis Alan Ramsey released his first – and only – album, which included songs that have since been covered by Jimmy Buffett, Lyle Lovett and Captain & Tennille, among others.
"Muskrat Candlelight" (posteriormente chamada "Muskrat Love" em versões cover) é uma música de 1972 do cantor norte-americano Willis Alan Ramsey, lançada originalmente no álbum de mesmo nome. A letra fala de um romance de ratos-almiscarados .
On the 50th anniversary of his eponymous 1972 record, five renowned singer-songwriters—including Jimmy Buffett and Lyle Lovett—celebrate Willis Alan Ramsey.
