the top 50 classic Texas songs

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Sarge - while I have enjoyed what you have posted so far, you really need to step up with the list.

Being a native Houstonian, this list fills me with pride. We really do have some awesome music in these parts.

Now if I could get Sarge to step on stage, we could add him to this list.

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13) Janis Joplin - Me & Bobby McGee

Joplin's only number one hit. (written by Kris Kristofferson.)

Janice Joplin - Me & Bobby Mcgee

Kris released the song in 1970, Roger Miller and Gordon Lightfoot had released earlier versions. Joplin recorded her version without Kris' knowledge for her debut album Pearl with the Full Tilt Boogie Band.

Janis - Summertime : Live in Stockholm 1969

Janis - To Love Somebody (Bee Gees cover)

Janis - Piece of my Heart

Janis - Try (live ay Woodstock)

Janis - Mercedes Benz

Melissa Etheridge & Joss Stone - Janis Joplin Tribute

first time Julie and I saw Willie live he played Me & Bobby McGee.

Wiliie & the Family - Me & Bobby McGee

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12) Waylon Jennings - Honkey Tonk Heroes

written by Billy Joe Shaver. in fact on Waylon's Honky Tonk Heroes album, Billy Joe wrote 11 of the 12 tracks.

and now those eleven songs...

1) Honky Tonk Heroes

2) Old Five and Dimers Like Me

3) Willy the Wandering Gypsy and Me

4) Low Down Freedom

5) Omaha (Shaver & Hill

6) You Asked Me To (Jennings/Shaver)

7) Ride Me Down Easy

8} Ain't No God in Mexico

9) [url=ttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMn3tD__Cz4]Black Rose[/url]

10) Slow Rollin' Roll

number 11 was an alternate take of You Asked Me To. not finding that, I offer this instead...

11) You Asked me To - sung by Billy Joe Shaver

Julie and I were lucky enough to see Waylon live. his wife Jessi Colter opened for him. the two songs they did as a duet follow...

Walon & Jessi - Suspicious Minds

Waylon & Jessi - Deep in the West

Jessi and son Shooter (Waylon's boy) did this after Waylon had passed.

Jessi Colter & Shooter Jennings - Carry Me Home

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11) Freddie King - Hide Away

Freddie King - Hide Away

another artist I don't know anything about. I knew he was a bluesman, but never heard him before.

Freddie King - Ain't No Sunshine

Freddie King - Sweet Home Chicago

Freddie King and Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown - Papa's Got a Brand New Bag

Freddie King & Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown - Shuffle

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10) Mickey Newbury - She Even Woke Me Up to Say Goodbye

Mickey Newbury was born Milton Sims Newbury Jr. in Houston Texas, May 19, 1940.

In 1968, Mickey saw huge success; three number one songs and one number five – across four different charts; Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In) on the Pop/Rock chart by the First Edition, Sweet Memories on Easy Listening by Andy Williams, Time is a Thief on the R&B chart by Solomon Burke, and Here Comes the Rain Baby on the Country chart by Eddy Arnold. This feat has not been repeated.

this song resurrected Jerry Lee Lewis' career...

Jerry Lee Lewis - She Even Woke Me Up To Say Goodbye

as to his feat in 1968...

Kenny Rogers & The First Edition - Just Dropped In

Andy Williams - Sweet Memories

Solomon Burke-Time Is a Thief

Roy Orbison - Here Comes the Rain Baby

(could not find the Eddy Arnold version of that last song. Gene Pitney does the whistle solo btw)

and now the man, Mickey Newbury himself...

She Even Woke Me Up To Say Goodbye

American Trilogy

One night in Los Angeles, at a time of national distress over war and race issues in the U.S.A., Newbury spontaneously combined a southern anthem (written by a northerner, D.D. Emmett), a northern anthem (written by a southerner, William Steffe), and a third song that was originally a Jamaican slave song (All My Sorrows). and features Marie Rhines on violin. It came to be called An American Trilogy, and would be adopted by Elvis Presley as the centerpiece of his later concerts.

Elvis - An America Trilogy

[url=www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3m3ruEx15A]Mickey Newbury - Just Dropped In[/in]

oddly enough I just researched Mickey this past weekend not knowing he was coming up in the list.

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9) Cindy Walker - You Don't Know Me Yet

Cindy has been recorded by Elvis, Willie, Bob Wills, Emmylou and Ray Charles. (among many others.)

this song was co-written with Eddie Arnold in 1954, but was not a hit until 1962 when Ray Charles included it on his Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music.

Willie Nelson used this song as the title on his 2006 tribute for Cindy Walker.

Ray Charles' version

Willie Nelson's version

Eddy Arnold's version

Elvis

Cindy Walker's version

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8} Sir Douglas Quintet - She's About a Mover

producer Huey Meaux named this San Antonio band the Sir Douglas Quintet in hopes of cashing in on the British Invasion in 1964.

at the time only the SDQ and Sam the Sham & the Pharoahs were including Tex Mex ingredients in the mix.

Augie Meyers is playing the Vox organ on this. he and lead singer Doug Sahm would later form the Texas Tornados.

SDQ - She's ABout a Mover

Texas Tornados- she's ABout a Mover

SDQ - Mendicino

SDQ - cover of the 13th Floor Elevators - You're Gonna Miss Me

[Wildling]

Still no sign of Blind In Texas.

Or Sly & The Family Stone.