Billy Grammer Music

7360 Grammer Road

Sesser, Illinois 62884

Billy's Latest Offering On The Bob Will's Tribute Album

Billy has recorded an original song for the Bob Wills 100th birthday tribute album. The album was recorded on the Common Ground label and contains 23 tracks - one of which is titled Turkey Texas Blues. Not only is it a great song recorded in the Texas Swing style that Billy is so fond of and plays so well, but Turkey Texas is also considered to be Bob Will's home town. Billy was asked to sing on the LP, but did one better with this great original tune. The album was produced by Tommy Alsup and includes a large roster of big name talent.

Turkey Texas Blues

Date: 1959 - Re-released in 1966

Album Title: Travelin' On

Label: MONUMENT

Catalog: SM-14000

Date: 1960

Album Title: Billy Grammer Hits

Label: Monument

Catalog: MEP-15001

Comments: Released as an EP

Date: 1961

Album Title: Grammer's Guitar

Label: Monument

Catalog: MEP-15002

Comments: Released as an EP

Date: 1962

Album Title: Gospel Guitar

Label: DECCA

Catalog: DL7-4212

Date: 1964

Album Title: Billy Grammer Detroit City

Label: DECCA

Catalog: ED-2767

Comments: Released as an EP

Date: 1964

Album Title: Golden Gospel Favorites

Label: DECCA

Catalog: DL7-4460

Date: 1964

Album Title: Billy Grammer Sings Gotta Travel On

Label: DECCA

Catalog: DL7-4542

Date: 1965

Album Title: Country Guitar

Label: DECCA

Catalog: DL7-4642

Date: 1966

Album Title: Travelin' On

Label: MONUMENT

Catalog: SM-18039

Date: 1967

Album Title: Sunday Guitar

Label: EPIC

Catalog: BN-26233

Date: 1968

Album Title: Country Favorites

Label: VOCALION

Catalog: VL7-3826

Date: 1969

Album Title: Power In The Blood

Label: Skylite Records

Catalog: 6107

Date: 1975

Album Title: Billy Grammer Plays

Label: Stoneway

Catalog: STY-152

Date: 1977

Album Title: Christmas Guitars Featuring Guitar Chimes Of Billy Grammer

Label: Classic Christmas

Catalog: CCR-1931

Date 1985

Album Title: Back Home

Label: Circle Records

Date: 1998

Album Title: Gotta Travel On: The Very Best of Billy Grammer

Label: Collectibles

Catalog: 5896

Date 2000

Album Title: Guitar Bits & Pieces

Label: Circle Records

Date: 1958

Single Title: "Gotta Travel On"/"Chasing A Dream"

Label: MONUMENT

Catalog: 400

Date: 1958

Single Title: "Bonaparte's Retreat"/"The Kissing Tree"

Label: MONUMENT

Catalog: 501

Date: 1958

Single Title: "Gotta Travel On"/"Bonaparte's Retreat"

Label: MONUMENTGOLD

Catalog: 1905

Date: 1959

Single Title: "Bonaparte's Retreat"/"Kissing Tree"

Label: MONUMENT

Catalog: 403

Date: 1959

Single Title: "It Takes You"/"Willy, Quit Your Playing"

Label: MONUMENT

Catalog: 407

Date: 1960

Single Title: "Loveland"/"On The Job Too Long"

Label: MONUMENT

Catalog: 413

Date: 1960

Single Title: "Princess Of Persia"/"Unknown Soldier"

Label: EVEREST

Catalog: 19334

Date: 1960

Single Title: "Big, Big Dream"/"River Of Regret"

Label: EVEREST

Catalog: 19384

Date: 1961

Single Title: "Columbus Stockade Blues"/"There's A Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder"

Label: DECCA

Catalog: 31226

Date: 1961

Single Title: "Finger"/"Have A Drink On Me"

Label: DECCA

Catalog: 31274

Date: 1961

Single Title: "I'd Like To Know Why"/"Save Your Tears"

Label: DECCA

Catalog: 31321

Date: 1962

Single Title: "Bottom Of The Glass"/"I Wanna Go Home"

Label: DECCA

Catalog: 31449

Date: 1963

Single Title: "I'll Leave The Porch Lights A-Burning"/"Old Foolish Me"

Label: DECCA

Catalog: 31562

Date: 1967

Single Title: "Bottles"/"Temporarily"

Label: EPIC

Catalog: 10053

Date: 1967

Single Title: "Mabel (You Have Been A Friend To Me)"/"Papa And Mama"

Label: RICE

Catalog: 5025

Date: 1967

Single Title: "Heaven Help This Heart Of Mine"/"The Real Thing"

Label: EPIC

Catalog: 10103

Date: 1967

Single Title: "I've Seen That Look On Me (A Thousand Times)"/"Written On A Jailhouse"

Label: EPIC

Catalog: 10169

Date: 1968

Single Title: "Last Of My Future"/"Money, Love And War"

Label: MERCURY

Catalog: 72785

Date: 1968

Single Title: "The Ballad Of John Dillinger"/"Do You Still Believe"

Label: MERCURY

Catalog: 72836

Date: 1969

Single Title: "The Changing Scene"/"The Hour Of Separation"

Label: MERCURY

Catalog: 72893

Date: 1969

Single Title: "Jesus Is A Soul Man"/"Peace On Earth Begins Today"

Label: STOP

Catalog: 321

Date: 1975

Single Title: "Family Man"/"What We Have In Common Is Love"

Label: MONUMENT

Catalog: 8653

Date: 1975

Single Title: "Steppin' Out"/"Mom & Dad's Waltz"

Label: MONUMENT

Catalog: 8665

Date: 1976

Single Title: "That's Life"/"Who's Gonna Buy You The Ribbons"

Label: MONUMENT

Catalog: 8685

Date: 2005

Album Title: Ernest Tubb & Friends [3 Disc set]

Label: Direct Source Label

Date: 2004

Album Title: 20 Country Hits

Label: Music Mill

Date: 2004

Album Title: Forty Great Country Duets

Label: Prism Records

Date: 2004

Album Title: Travelin' Hits

Label: Platinum Disc

Date: 2003

Album Title: The Folk Years [Box Set]

Label: Time-Life

Date: 2002

Album Title: Hard to Find 45's on CD: Pop & Country Classics

Label: Eric Records

Date: 2002

Album Title: The Folk Years: Simple Songs of Freedom

Label: Time-Life

Date: 2000

Album Title: Easy Listening Gold: 1958-1959

Label: Heartland Music/Universal Music

Date: 1999

Album Title: Treasury of Folk, Vol. 3

Label: Time-Life

Date: 1995

Album Title: Treasured Tunes, Vol. 1

Label: Stardust

Date: 1994

Album Title: Monument Story

Label: Sony Music Special Products

Date: 1992

Album Title: Your Hit Parade: The Fabulous '50s

Label: Time-Life

Date: 1989

Album Title: Country U.S.A.: 1959

Label: Decca

Date: 1978

Album Title: Movin' On [ERA]

Travelin' On Album Notes

Memo to: Billy Grammer

Location: On tour

Subject: Travelin' On

Date: May 18, 1959

Dear Bill,

As I write this, I am on a train somewhere between Washington, D.C. and New York City. I am going to New York today to put the finishing touch on your first album entitled "Travelin' On." I am to write the notes that will appear on the back cover, and believe me, this is a bigger chore for me than you might think. I have been thinking about the many things I could say, the many ways I could say them and the little space allotted to say them, and so far, I have said nothing. I am writing you this so that if your album comes out with a big blank back, you'll know why.

"Travelin' On" pretty aptly describes both of us since your recording of "Gotta Travel On" journeyed to the top of all the hit lists. Right now I am sure you too are "between" two points on the map. Word has reached me that you are a big hit on your current personal appearance tour, and may I say that I am not at all surprised as I have been watching you "steal the show" for almost ten years now. Maybe I could write about that on your album as I am sure your new fans would like to know something of your past.

I could tell them that you were born in Benton, Illinois, that you're one of 13 children and that you have been playing professionally since 1948, and since 1950 you have worked the night club circuit in and around Washington, D.C.

Most of your "Travel On" fans don't know the tremendous reputation you have acquired as a guitarist in music circles. Maybe they would like to know that most of the big name entertainers, who have played Washington in recent years, have always called on you for guitar accompaniment. Speaking of guitar, I have the master tapes on the album of guitar instrumentals we recorded last week. I think they are just great and will try to get them out as soon as possible. So watch the mail for your copy.

Maybe the record buying public will be interested in knowing that you and I looked for "Gotta Travel On" for three years. We didn't know we were looking for "Gotta Travel On," but we knew it when we heard it, if you'll remember. I remember that while we were looking for what we considered a hit song that you worked the Jimmy Dean network television show out of Washington, D.C. "Gotta Travel On" was released the week the Dean show was disbanded but you were not off television for long because since that time, you have appeared on the Ed Sullivan, Dick Clark and George Hamilton network shows.

Giving credit where credit is due, I think we should thank Buddy Deane, popular Baltimore television (WJZ-TV) disc jockey for being the first to play "Gotta Travel On." His faith in the record and constant spins made it a big hit in Baltimore. From there of course, it took the country by storm.

I am very happy to know that you have just bought a 45-acre farm near Nashville, Tennessee, and I am sure you will enjoy it very much. This should give you a nice home base from which to work your regular appearances on the Grand Ole Opry and, or course, your many personals.

I would like to congratulate you on your new manager, Dee Kilpatrick, and I am sure you will enjoy working with Don Gibson and the other artists managed by Dee.

Something should be said about the songs on the album and how we happened to choose these particular songs to record, so here goes.

A Thousand Miles Ago - This tune is currently very popular by country and western star Webb Pierce. We chose this tune because it tells the story of a boy whose girl friend is a thousand miles in back of him. He also says he has a thousand miles to go. It that isn't traveling on, what is?

Midnight and How's The World Treating You - Both these songs were written by Boudleaux Bryant and Chet Atkins. Boudleaux writes all the Everly Brothers' hits and Chet Atkins is the popular music director of RCA Victor Records plus being one of the world's greatest guitarists, plus director of artists and repertoire at RCA Victor in Nashville, Tennessee. Both these tunes have been favorites of Billy's for a long time.

One Thousand Concrete Blocks - This song was written by John D. Loudermilk, one of the most promising new writers in the country today. A Thousand Concrete Blocks tells the story of a boy who shot his sweetheart's lover and, as a result, is now surrounded by One Thousand Concrete Blocks.

My Lucky Love - It's a happy, almost spiritual sounding song written by another guitarist, Joe Tanner of Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Joe conducted the early George Hamilton sessions that produced "A Rose And A Baby Ruth." The glass bell sound in this song is achieved by playing a Dr. Pepper bottle with a screw driver.

Poor Old Heartsick Me - This is a comparatively new song. It is currently making the rounds via the Margie Bowles recording. This is particularly well suited to Billy's style and that's why we recorded it.

Give Myself A Party - Is a great Don Gibson song, but somehow or another was "lost in the shuffle." A song this good is bound to hit sooner or later and Billy really got a kick out of singing this one.

You Know I Do - Is a very old standard, taught to Billy by his mother. From the way he sings this, you know he is realizing a long time ambition in recording this song.

Barrelhouse Bessie - With Alaska recently achieving statehood, this old song becomes topical once again. It depicts the story of a barrelhouse piano player named Bessie who works the saloon circuit in the Klondike. The story of her meeting the sweetheart who once jilted her, makes this an amusing song.

Kitty Wells - This is one of the first songs I ever remember hearing, and Billy has known it most of his life also. Since the original lyrics have to do with the subject of slavery, we have changed some of the words and brought it up to date without destroying its great, full quality.

Run Boy Run - This is another song we feel never reached its full potential. This tells a great story and gives some mighty good advice.

This album was recorded in the RCA Victor studios in Nashville, Tennessee on March 24, 25 & 26, 1959, on Ampex 351 stereo tape recorders utilizing Telefunken U-47 microphones on voice and RCA 77 DX mics on instruments. The musicians would read like a "Who's Who" in music. Unfortunately, we cannot name them by name as most of them are under contract to other labels and star performers in their own right. A special thanks, however, should be given to Mr. Ed Hines, Head of RCA's Custom Division in Nashville.

That's about it Billy, and I sure hope I think of something to write on the back of your album.

Best wishes and keep traveling on.

Your Buddy,

Fred Foster

President

Monument Record Corporation

Golden Gospel Favorites Album Notes

There was a time, back when I was a boy, that good grammar meant not using ain't or cain't. But today, just to show you how things can change, folks say Good Grammer when they mean the most inspiring instrumentalizing that can come out of a guitar amplifier.

When a boss brags about one of the people who works for him, you often suspect that maybe the boss is actually complimenting himself on being so smart as to have hired such a capable person. But I'm not Billy Grammer's boss anymore. The day is long past when I put him to work as one of the original Radio Ranchmen on my station in the Washington, D.C. area, and long gone is the time when I moved him up front as a featured member of the "Jimmy Dean Show" I produced for CBS-TV. So you can take what's said now as being how one man with no axe to grind actually appraises another.

Billy came walking into my office that day we met as a lad raised in Franklin County, Illinois. He told me he was one of thirteen children, and said he thought he'd like picking a guitar better than going down in the coal mines for the rest of his working days like a good many of the boys he had gone through school with. I listened to him play and told myself, "this young sprout just couldn't be any better!" -- but I was proved wrong. Billy has grown into an even finer musician today.

What most of those who make sacred records do with their voices, Billy does with his ten fingers. Some guitarists' fingers, you know, are just "educated"; they only go through memorized motions. But listening to Billy, you experience the sensation that his fingers are at one end of a telegraph line and his heart is at the other. I've been a fellow who signed the paychecks of a lot of different musicians in my time, and I don't know of another instrumentalist who can express any deeper or more sincere convictions.

As I write this, Billy's Golden Gospel Favorites hasn't come on the market yet, of course. But I've already put in my order with Owen Bradley for three copies: all three of them for myself. If that seems a little peculiar, it's because I'm sort of a "migrant worker," with homes and offices here in Nashville, Washington and in the lovely little Virgin Islands community called St. Thomas. And with one album beside the player in each place, I'll be enjoying Billy wherever I am.

Right now, wherever you are, you sit back and enjoy him, too. Peace in the Valley, Beyond the Sunset, Where We'll Never Grow Old, Mansion Over the Hilltop... he plays beautifully, soulfully.

I've appreciated having this brief visit with you. Glad we could get acquainted, and maybe we can visit again sometime. But for now, I'll say many thanks for your attention and sign myself--

Billy's ex-boss and biggest fan,

Connie B. Gay

Billy Grammer Sings Gotta Travel On Album Notes

Aim high, they say, if you're really intent on making a place for yourself amid the world of showfolks.

So Billy Grammer took that advice.

But nobody had told Billy he shouldn't do his "aiming" with what amounted to a double-barreled gun.

So Billy aimed for two careers; one as a singer, another as an instrumentalist. And in the crazy, wonderful way things sometimes happen in show business, darned if he didn't score a bull's-eye in both! The combination of becoming a star singer and a star guitarist is about the equivalent of Milwaukee Braves' pitcher Warren Spahn being able to catch behind the plate like New York Yankees' Elston Howard.

Naturally, an album which takes its title from the tune Gotta Travel On, just has to feature the vocal side of Billy's personality. However, that doesn't mean he stood at Decca's recording mic with his hands uselessly hanging at his side; that guitar goes everywhere Grammer goes. It has, in fact, from the day he looked back over his shoulder at the city-limits sign lettered "Benton, Ill.," leaving behind the coal field region where he was raised as one of thirteen children, heading out to try his double-barreled aim.

True to the song title, Billy did "travel on" for a number of youthful years, putting in his apprenticeship with veteran showmen like Grandpa Jones and T. Texas Tyler. But entirely unlike the song, which has the singer saying he "laid around and played around this old town too long," Billy was in no location very long. New opportunities kept opening up. Local radio and TV in the nation's capital. Then the chance to go nationwide on network television. Finally, the big break, the 1959 hit, Gotta Travel On, which made possible his establishing a longed-for "home base" at the Grand Ole Opry. Soon afterward, followed guitar stardom with Decca albums like Gospel Guitar and Golden Gospel Favorites.

It's a full-time job, as you can imagine, keeping up with the work entailed in one successful career - but Billy makes it appear almost effortless to carry the added responsibilities of a twin-talent performer.

About the personal side of Billy, he looks far more like a college student than the father of a pretty co-ed who is such a delight in his family life. He fishes when there's time - and there is time more often than you might think, because even two careers haven't been permitted to make of him a man who only eats, sleeps, and breathes music. Perhaps that is a principal reason why Billy is such a pleasure to visit with in person: his interests are varied and his enthusiasm for getting to know new people always runs high.

Until you have your chance to walk up, introduce yourself and enjoy meeting Billy, this album is the best way to become better acquainted with the singin'est, guitar-pickin'est Mr. Versatility there is in the business. The boy who aimed high, and carried off two prizes for marksmanship.

Country Guitar Album Notes

The day is not far off, they tell us, when automation will do all of man's work. But I'll make you a bet that the last man on earth to be replaced by a machine with an electronic brain will be Billy Grammer.

Sure, scientists could cram into a "memory bank" the "how-to" of guitar playing. Then, by throwing a couple of switches, twisting a few knobs and punching a button or two, the machine would come forth with everything from Guitar Polka to Wednesday Night Waltz - in fact, there's not a tune on this great new COUNTRY GUITAR album the machine couldn't play. But, for all its mechanical perfection, there would still be something lacking, and you'd know it. Originality and personality! That's why there will always be a demand for a real, live Billy Grammer, and never a Billy Grammer machine.

Because Billy was mindful of the fact that tastes vary a good deal from one record collector to another, he has given us in these songs, besides that well-known stamp of originality and personality which are now his trade mark, much variety in their choice as well.

He has reached as far back as thirty years for Faded Love, popularized by Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys when they were still a "territory band," playing almost exclusively in the Lone Star State and in Oklahoma - awaiting the "break" which was to sweep them to international fame and immortality in the country music field. And, to bring things right up to the present time, he has included one of this year's biggest sellers, King Of The Road, which has been Roger Miller's rocket to stardom.

Then too, Billy brings you the old-time, all-time country favorite, Born To Lose, and the song by which millions came to know Bill Monroe and his Bluegrass Boys, Kentucky Waltz. From among Patsy Cline's most unforgettable hits, Billy includes I Fall To Pieces. And he didn't miss out on the opportunity to see that you hear an instrumental presentation of the tune that many, many of the vocalists are recording these days, Hank Locklin's Send Me The Pillow You Dream On.

All in all, COUNTRY GUITAR can be predicted as another winner for the boy from the coal mining country of southern Illinois who rose - through apprenticeship as a bandsman, featured appearances on network television, and finally as both a singing and guitar-playing star in his own right - to become a giant in the country music field. He's the fellow for whom automation offers no threat whatsoever, because though a machine might be taught to play with perfection, cold perfection is only a handicap for the truly creative musician . . . the artist who plays what he feels . . . as Billy Grammer does.

Sunday Guitar Album Notes

Now you can enjoy Billy Grammer's Sunday Guitar . . . every day.

But please be forewarned that it will be far from an ordinary, "everyday" kind of experience, hearing the inspired musicianship of this exceptional guitar star. Billy doesn't just play with "educated fingers" that are only capable of going through memorized motions. Instead, his hands move as though his heart and all his deepest emotions were guiding every touch upon the strings.

The songs Billy has chosen for Sunday Guitar are almost entirely those you have known and loved from earliest days of childhood. Like the lovely "Church In The Wildwood," "In The Sweet Bye And Bye," and "Jesus Is Tenderly Calling."

These are the songs of faith and devotion to which generation after generation of Americans have turned for strength in times of need. Such as "Nearer My God To Thee," "Take Time To Be Holy" and "Abide With Me." In all, this album contains some of the most moving, meaningful and memorable music ever recorded for you by any artist.

Billy Grammer is an especially outstanding citizen of Nashville's internationally celebrated country music colony, because he is the ideal example of an all-round multi-talented star. He isn't limited to playing and singing; Billy is an arranger of marvelous capability (and each of these Sunday Guitar selections wonderfully illustrates that phase of his talent); what's more, he is the designer of instruments used today by a vast number of other guitarists.

And there is no more perfect example of hard work winning great rewards than Billy Grammer. He came from a family of thirteen children, born in the coal-mining region of southern Illinois, to labor his way through a long series of "sideman" jobs with musical groups all around the countryside. He was always a teamworker, a cooperative fellow and - most important - a musician whose creativeness and originality were a big contribution to any band in which he played. And then one day, as you may recall, his break of a lifetime came as bandleader on the country music show that CBS-TV began beaming from Washington, DC, to the entire nation.

It was only a short time thereafter when Billy's "Gotta Travel On" exploded as an all-American hit, skyrocketing him to his own special (and permanent) place in the history of country-style entertainment.

Sunday Guitar is a remarkable new album which, we confidently predict, will add handsomely to the greatness of a guy named Grammer. It contains a huge measure of the warmth of his personality. These old and familiar and best-loved songs of praise are the ones which have meant so much to his own life, and he delights in sharing them now with you.

Produced by Billy Sherrill

Epic Records, a Division of CBS Inc., New York

LN-24233

Power In The Blood Album Notes

"It's fun being saved." I've been saying this since that Tuesday night, April 15, 1958, when Jesus Christ saved my soul, and I personally found out "There Is Power in The Blood." Since then many outstanding events have thrilled my soul. Like a night in September 1969, while walking into the Municipal Auditorium of Nashville, Tennessee to preach the gospel to a crowd of 10,000 people. Someone said, "Brother Bob, Billy Grammer of the Grand Ole Opry is in the audience tonight." Yes, I knew of Billy Grammer, even though I had not met him personally, I had heard him sing many times, and his million dollar gold record of "Traveling On" was one of my personal favorites (I love country music). I breathed a prayer to Jesus and asked him to do a work of grace in Billy's heart and praise the Lord, He did! That night Billy Grammer let Jesus Christ take over as a Savior and Lord of his life, and since that night, Nashville and America knows better that ever "There Is Power in The Blood." Remember, it's only begun what God is going to do with Billy Grammer.

Gracefully saved,

Bob Harrington

Chaplain of Bourbon Street

Billy Grammer Plays Album Notes

To those of us fortunate enough to have been born and raised in the country, this album will have a special meaning. Because it will walk us back through some of our happiest memories and take us back home. 'Back Home' for me is Rutherford County, North Carolina, and the banks and bottomland of Rocky Broad River. On Sunday afternoons at our house, my dad would read the Bible to those of our community who had never learned to read. (You notice I didn't say illiterate, because some of those old boys were smart in every way except books). Then Dad would get out his harmonica and play some of the old favorites. Some of the boys would bring along their instruments, usually a guitar, mandolin or banjo, and they would each take a turn. I was, without fail, spellbound by their music. Now, these were not professional musicians; they were not overly concerned if they played a wrong note or missed a chord change. They played from the heart. And they laughed, cried or prayed with their music - emotions they would never display in public in the ordinary ways. I shall never forget them.

Now, Billy Grammer is a professional musician, and a great one. I suppose the hardest thing for an accomplished musician to do is play pure and simple, the way you and I like it. But, somehow Billy has, in this set of tunes, managed to reach back beyond all his technical know-how and play like the old boys on our front porch back home. This is music that needs no frills, no embellishments, no big arrangements. It just needs your appreciative ear.

Billy and I go back in our relationship to the inception of Monument Records. Monument's first release was the million-selling "Gotta Travel On" by, yes, Billy Grammer. For that first session, we recorded three sides, and one of them was an instrumental, which shows you what I thought of his pickin' even then.

For those of you unlucky enough never to meet Billy in person, let me tell you, he is a better man than he is a musician, and that's saying something. He is a wonderful warrior for God and Christ, a devoted family man and a friend you never have cause to doubt. Billy made this album shortly before coming to Monument after an absence of several years. I'm grateful to Billy for making this album, for coming home to Monument and for asking me to write these notes. Lay you a couple of copies of this impending collectors' item away in a safe place somewhere. I know I am.

Fred Foster President, Monument Records

Produced by R. M. Stone

Stoneway Records 2817 Laura Koppe, Houston, Texas

77016 STY-152

Christmas Guitars Album Notes

BILLY GRAMMER . . . One of America's Great Guitar Stylists.

YOU MAY CALL IT POPULAR, COUNTRY OR CLASSIC . . . His sound is unique.

His touch, tone and creative fullness have a completeness of sound known as the "GRAMMER SOUND."

You are holding in your hand the only album of its kind . . . a guitar album of songs recorded for Christmas especially featuring the GUITAR CHIMES by an artist who is known for selling several million records as a vocalist in the country field.

He has designed many guitars. Some carried his name. One of his favorites you'll hear on this album is a Gibson. If you like the sound of beautiful guitars, you'll love this album. If you love good arrangements, you'll treasure these works.

Billy Grammer, a quiet gentleman, has been a regular on the internationally known Grand Ole Opry since 1959. You may remember him most for "Gotta Travel On," or "Detroit City." Though a proven country singer, his guitar style supercedes the country boundaries and pushes the limits of several musical categories. As a true professional, he enjoys playing and you can tell this by his easy laid back touch and delicate tone that sets the nostalgic mood of Christmas, for an evening of listening pleasure.

Produced by Cecil Scaife

Classic Christmas - a Division of Music, Inc. - Nashville, TN

CCR-1931