Song in a Seashell
1985 studio album by Tom T. Hall
Song in a Seashell | ||||
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Studio album by Tom T. Hall | ||||
Released | 1985 | |||
Studio | Young 'Un Sound, Nashville, Tennessee | |||
Genre | Country | |||
Label | Mercury | |||
Producer | Jerry Kennedy | |||
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Song in a Seashell is an album by American country music singer Tom T. Hall released in 1985 on Mercury Records that reached #63 in the country music chart. Three singles from the album charted, “A Bar With No Beer” at #40,[1] “Down in the Florida Keys” at #42 and “Love Letters in the Sand” at #79.
Track listing
All tracks composed by Tom T. Hall; except where indicated
- Side 1
- "That Lucky Old Sun" (Haven Gillespie, Beasley Smith) – 2:16
- "A Bar with No Beer" – 2:52
- "I Have Friends – 2:39
- "A Song in a Seashell" – 2:05
- "Red Sails in the Sunset" (Jimmy Kennedy, Hugh Williams) – 2:50
Side 2
- "Down in the Florida Keys" – 2:46
- "Love Letters in the Sand" (Fred Coots, Charles Kenny, Nick Kenny) – 2:13
- "This Ain’t Exactly What I Had in Mind" – 3:36
- "Gone Fishin’" (Nick Kenny, Charles Kenny) – 2:31
- "We’re All Through Dancing" – 2:51[2]
Musicians
- David Briggs, Hargus "Pig" Robbins - keyboards
- Jerry Carrigan, Ron Gannaway - percussion
- Ray Edenton, Jerry Kennedy, Pete Wade, Chip Young - guitar
- Weldon Myrick - steel guitar
- Mike Leech - bass guitar
- George Binkley, John Borg, Roy Christensen, Virginia Christensen, Connie Callopy, Charles Everett, Carl Gorodetzky, Lennie Haight, Lee Larrison, Dennis Molchan, Pamela Sixfin, Mark Tanner, Gary Vanosdale, Stephanie Woolf - strings (Nashville String Machine)
- Bergen White - string arrangements
- The Beach Buch - background vocals on “Down in the Florida Keys"[2]
Production
- Produced by: Jerry Kennedy
- Recorded and Mixed at: Young 'Un Sound, Nashville, TN
- Engineers: Ron “Snake” Reynolds assisted by Barry Foy
- Mastered at: Master Mix, Nashville, TN by Hank Williams
- Album Design: Bill Brunt (Private Eye Studio)
- Photography: Scott Bonner & Ron Keith[2]
References
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- In Search of a Song (1971)
- Places I've Done Time (1978)
- Song in a Seashell (1985)
- Greatest Hits Vol. 2 (1975)
- "Ballad of Forty Dollars"
- "A Week in a Country Jail"
- "Shoeshine Man"
- "Salute to a Switchblade"
- "The Year That Clayton Delaney Died"
- "The Monkey That Became President"
- "(Old Dogs, Children and) Watermelon Wine"
- "Ravishing Ruby"
- "I Love"
- "That Song Is Driving Me Crazy"
- "Country Is"
- "I Care"
- "Deal"
- "I Like Beer"
- "Faster Horses (The Cowboy and the Poet)"
- "Fox on the Run"
- "Your Man Loves You Honey"
- "It's All in the Game"
- "May the Force Be with You Always"
- "What Have You Got to Lose"
- "The Old Side of Town"
- "Song of the South"
- "A Bar with No Beer"