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June 20, 2007

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break my mind
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Break My Mind has been recorded by The Box Tops, Glen Campbell,
Jerry Lee Lewis, Lee Hazlewood, Linda Ronstadt, Roy Orbison,
Anne Murray, The Flying Burrito Brothers, Wreckless Eric, and many many more...
never composer John D Loudermilk himself ...
live version of John D. - 2007
Poets and Prophets

Country Music Hall Of Fame And Museum,
Ford Theater, Nashville TN.


Break My Mind

Lyrics:

Baby, oh, baby
Tell the man at the ticket stand
That you've changed your mind
Let me run on out and tell the cab
To keep his meter flying
'Cause if you say goodbye to me, babe
You're gonna break my mind

Break my mind, break my mind
No, I just can't stand to hear them big jet engines whine
Break my mind, break my mind
If you leave you're gonna leave a babalin' fool behind

Baby, oh, baby
Let me take your suitcase
Off the scales in time
Tell the man that you've suddenly developed
A thing about flyin'
'Cause if you say goodbye to me, babe
You know you're gonna break my mind

(c) 1966 and 1967, Acuff-Rose Publ. Inc.
(source: Standard Songs Pop/ Country/ Blues/ Folk/ Instumentals/ Novelty, Acuff-Rose Publications Inc. 1956-1973)
Roy Orbison 1969
Roy Orbison picture sleeve Dutch release
George Hamilton IV (1967, RCA 9239, C&W #4 hit)
Bobby Wood (1967, MGM 13797, cashbox #96)
Box Tops (1967, LP Letter/Neon Rainbow 1967)
Jan Howard (1967, LP This Is Jan Howard Country)
Glen Campbell (1968, LP Hey Little One)
Debbie Lori Kaye (1968, Columbia 44311)
Dick Nolan (1968, LP I Want To Live, Canada country artist)
Jerry Lee Lewis (1968, LP Another Place Another Time)
Benny Barnes (45 rpm by Texan honky tonk singer)
The Four Blazers (Buddy 140, not the doowop group)
Larry Butler (1968, Imperial 66277)
Sammy Davis Jr (1968, Reprise 0757)
Tommy Collins (1968, LP On Tour)
Sixteenth Avenue Singers Society (1968, TRX 5008)
Jean Shepard (1968, Scorpion 157)
John Drummond (1968, Page One 85)
Johnny Darrell (1968, LP Son Of Hickory Holler's Tramp)
Danny Gatton (1968, LP Bobby Charles Invades The Wells-Fargo Lounge)
Ann Margret & Lee Hazlewood (1969, LP The Cowboy and The Lady)
Buddy Knox (1969, LP Gypsy Man)
Hank Snow (1969, LP Hits Covered By Snow)
Linda Ronstadt (1969, LP Hand Sown Home Grown)
Pat Boone (1969, Tetragrammaton 1516)
The Carter Family (1969, Columbia 44982)
Margie Bowes (1969, LP Today's Country Sound)
Mac Curtis (1969, Epic 26419)
Pawnee Drive (1969, Forward 103)
Duane Eddy (1969, CBS 3962 UK)
Iain Campbell (former Ian Campbell Folk Group) (1969, MajorMinor 639, UK)
Jordanaires (1969, LP Monster Makers)
Jimmy Wakely (1969, LP Please Don't Hurt Me Anymore)
Roy Drusky (1969, LP My Grass Is Green)
Gary Buck (1969, LP Tomorrow Today, Canada)
Roy Orbison (1969, London FLX-3240 (NL), EP London 7594 (OZ))
Clifford Curry (1969±, Elf 9304)
Joy McKean & Slim Dusty (EP Things We Sing On Tour, live by Australian couple)
Al Hirt (1969/70?, GWP 519)
Anne Murray (1970, LP Snowbird)
Emerson & Waldron (1970, LP Invite You To A Bluegrass Session)
The Byrds (1970, cd Ash Grove, live recording with Linda Ronstadt doing vocals on this track)
Barbara Mandrell (1971, Columbia 45391)
Wanda Jackson (1971, LP I've Got To Sing)
The Hagers (1971, LP Motherhood, Apple Pie & The Flag)
The Shades (1971, LP The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, Al Shade & Jean Romaine)
Ann-Louise Hanson (1971, LP Ann-Louise, Swedish version: "Håll Min Hand")
Cymarron (1971, LP Rings)
Colin Butler (1972, LP Canada's Young Singing Sensation, 11 years old child star)
Caney Creek Reunion (APT 26007)
Don Sohl Trio (Shoe 1970)
Petr Spálený (1972, Czech version "Mně Se Zdá", duet with Miluse Voborníková)
Julie Byrne & Nashville Cats (1972, LP The Nashville Sound, UK band)
Frank Yonko & Everglades (1972, LP Live at the Nashville Room London, UK C&W)
Dale Crider (1972, LP White Springs Bluegrass Festival)
Jerry Tuttle (1973, LP A Touch Of Music Row)
Alex Fraser Combo (±1973, LP At Home with the Alex Fraser Combo, Canada)
Flying Burrito Brothers (1974, LP Close up the Honky-Tonks)
The Cousins (1974, LP Country Cousins)
Fumble (1974, LP Poetry In Lotion, UK 70s rock)
South Tampa Horn Band (LP South Tampa Horn Band, instrumental Florida funk)
Susy Rose (45 on Rome RF-877, Ohio girl singer)
The Hillsiders (1975, LP To Please You, UK country)
Paddy Cole's Superstars (1975, LP Paddy Cole's Superstars, Irish Showband)
Al Barrett's Linemen (1975, LP Open Country, UK Country)
George Moody (LP Especially For You, UK Country)
Mike Fox (LP Country Boy's Memories, Australian country)
Sydney Devine (1976, 2LP Double Devine)
Vern Gosdin (1978, Elektra 45532)
Brendan Boyer (1979, LP Irish Showband)
Wreckless Eric (1980, LP Big Smash, UK punk version)
Bohannon (1981, LP Alive)
Joe Sun (1981, LP Storms Of Life)
Warren Storm (±1982, LP Heart 'n' Soul)
Richard Thompson (cd Nocturnal Emissions, live broadcasts and demos 1980-82)
Oak Ridge Brothers (1983, MCA 52488)
Richard Thompson (cd Nocturnal Emissions, live broadcasts and demos 1980-82)
Jiri Brabeg & George Hamilton IV (1983, LP George Hamilton IV & Jiri Brabeg & Country Beat)
Taxmeni (1993, cd Vrata Vyskocil, Yvonne Prenosilova, another Czech version "Zůstávám")
Crystal Gayle (1993, cd Best Always)
Barbados (1995, cd Barbados, another Swedish cover "Håll Min Hand")
Jayhawks (1995, cd Bad Time)
Kenji Nagatomi (cd Country Dream Duets, dentist-singing cowboy from Kyoto, duet with George Hamilton IV)
Iris DeMent (1996, unreleased live GAMH)
Brit Lyng (2002, cd Western Boots, Norway)


A LITTLE BIO

As published by JDL, telling about the start of his career, source the Acuff Rose Song Folio Book, publ. ca. 1964

Back in 1934 on the last day of March... I was born.
It all happened in Durham - a small half university, half industrial town in central North Carolina. I grew up around cigarette factories and hosiery mills and played roller-bat in the street like everyone else. Dad was 50 and mother was 40 when I was born so my two sisters were already grown and away from home by the time I came along.
Dad could neither read nor write so I used to go with him to the grocery store on Saturday afternoon and sign his pay check for him... (I always did believe that's why he gave me the same name as his). He was a carpenter all his life and never changed occupations. Mother was a housewife and a sweet and wonderful mother but, bless her heart, she liked to move a lot. She seemed happiest when the big moving van was backing up to the porch and the pasteboard boxes started to move. From the time I can first remember to the time I left home we had moved 19 times and never got out of the same school district.
Sending off for a Lone Ranger Mask, a scooter made out of an old rusty roller skate, Batman comic books, Mother teaching me to play her old guitar, and my own private tree house are all fond memories of my childhood.

My early religious influences were mostly along the gospel or holiness line. Singing to the accompaniment of "Stringed Instruments", Horns, Tamborines, Hand Clapping and the Big Bass Drum was my first conception of music... and a lasting one. Shouting at prayer meetings and giving one's own personal testimony was The Rule Of The Day.
Aside from the religious music, I also liked folk music (back then they called it "Hillbilly Music"). Sunday school came awfully early after staying up all night listening to The Grand Ole Opry on the radio.

My folks had always wanted me to become a preacher, but when I became a teenager instead, they became aware that I had become aware of a certain thing called social pressure. So I turned in my Christmas bell and uniform and started singing and playing more "Pop" type stuff on the guitar... the guitar that mother and the Salvation Army had taught me how to play.
Yea, Ivory Joe Hunter, Fats Domino and Lloyd Price were what was happening.
I later got hung up on concert guitar and all through high school I was playing and singing a combination of Jimmy Reed, Eddy Arnold and Andres Segovia.

Gold records On graduation from high school I went to work at my hometown television station painting sets and doing commercial art work. I was also on the air an hour a day playing bass fiddle in the Studio Combo and doing an occasional tune with my guitar on camera. It was during this time that I discovered the works of Kahlil Gibran, the Far Eastern poet and philosopher, who inspired me to try my hand at writing.
One night after work I wrote a poem about A Rose And A Baby Ruth candy bar. It sounded pretty good, so I put a tune to it with my guitar. I sang it on the show the next day and the phones started ringing... people wanting to hear it again.
George Hamilton IV (who was a student close by at UNC) was one of the ones who called. Before I knew it, he had recorded the thing and bam!... overnight the record was a hit.
George was a star and I was a songwriter!!

I had always wanted to go to college so off I went -down to a little junior college in the eastern part of the state. It was here that I wrote "Sittin' In The Balcony" (which was later to become Eddie Cochrans first hit record.)
I began to get offers from publishers in New York and Nashville, so before long I went home to pack. I had a whole bunch of songs by then and a little bit of royalties left so I headed on out to NashviIle, Tennessee.


Carolina Pinetoppers John's saturday night's band in the early 1950s: the Carolina Pinetoppers. Young John D in the center with fiddle.

"The popular orchestra is shown here during a rendition of one of their tricky hillbilly numbers". Other group members Burton Spicer, Eddie Hill, Donald Boswell and Philip Forest.

Picture from a local NC newspaper (picture courtesy Mike Spicer).