I'm Just a Country Boy

"I'm Just a Country Boy"
Single by Don Williams
from the album Country Boy
B-side "Louisiana Saturday Night"
Released July 20, 1977
Genre Country
Label ABC/Dot
Writer(s) Fred Hellerman
Marshall Baker
Producer(s) Don Williams
Don Williams singles chronology
"Some Broken Hearts Never Mend"
(1977)
"I'm Just a Country Boy"
(1977)
"I've Got a Winner in You"
(1978)

"I'm Just a Country Boy" is a song written by Fred Hellerman and Marshall Baker. In 1954, the song was recorded by Harry Belafonte accompanied by Hugo Winterhalter And His Orchestra (RCA Victor) and released on 78 rpm and 45 rpm record. It was the B-side of the record, "Hold 'Em Joe" (Calypso) being the A-side. The print on the record informs us that the song was written by Fred Brooks and Marshall Barer, noting that Fred Brooks was a pseudonym for Fred Hellerman (of The Weavers fame) who was blacklisted in the McCarthy era for his socialist ideals.

Cover Versions

Chart performance

Chart (1977) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles 1
U.S. Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 10
Canadian RPM Country Tracks 1

Footnotes

  1. http://www.folkways.si.edu/steve-camacho/turtle-dove/american-folk/music/track/smithsonian
  2. Helm 2000, pp. 307
  3. Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 386.
  4. march 16th, Vancouver CFUN radio

References

Preceded by
"Heaven's Just a Sin Away"
by The Kendalls
Billboard Hot Country Singles
number-one single

November 5, 1977
Succeeded by
"More to Me"
by Charley Pride
Preceded by
"The Morning After Baby Let Me Down"
by Carroll Baker
RPM Country Tracks
number-one single

November 12, 1977
Succeeded by
"We Can't Go On Living Like This"
by Eddie Rabbitt


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