Biography:
Johnny Tillotson (born 20 April 1938 in Jacksonville, Florida, USA) is an American singer and songwriter. He enjoyed his greatest success in the early 1960s, when he scored 9 top-ten hits on the pop, country and adult contemporary billboard charts including "Poetry In Motion" and the self-penned "It Keeps Right On A-Hurtin'".
In 1957 while still in high school, Tillotson was making records and performing on stage; as a student at the University of Florida, he had his own musical variety show on regional television.
Read more on Last.fm
Other songs:
- Another You
- Blue Velvet
- Counting My Teardrops
- Counting Teardrops
- Earth Angel
- Empty Feelin
- Fool Number One
- Heartaches By The Number
- His True Love Said Goodbye
- I Cant Help It
- I Fall To Pieces
- I Rise I Fall
- Im So Lonesome I Could Cry
- Im Suffering From A Heartache
- It Keeps Right On A
- Jimmys Girl
- Judy Judy Judy
- Lonely Street
- Lonesome Town
- Out Of My Mind
- Please Dont Go Away
- Poetry In Motion
- Princess
- She Understands Me
- Talk Back Trembling Lips
- Tears On My Pillow
- Thats When It Hurts The Most
- Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye
- Tomorrow
- Tragedy
- True True Happiness
- We Can Make It
- Well Im Your Man
- Whatll I Do
- Why Do I Love You So
- Without You
- Worry
- Youll Never Stop Me Loving You
- Your Memory Comes Along
- Youre The Reason
Four years of hard work!This month of May we celebrated four years on the air. We continue working on the dissemination of this wonderful instrument, thank you for participating in our story!
I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry:Johnny Tillotson.
#94 on CASH BOX and #89 on BB Hot 100 on
CADENCE Records in 1962.
INTRO:HARMONICA: B Ab Fm Db Ab..Bbm Cm Fm
Bb Eb Bbm Ab
#1.
Abm7 Ab
Hear that lonesome whippoorwill, he sounds too
Eb Ab Eb
blue to fly.
Ab Db Ab Eb Ab
The midnight train is whining low..I'm so
Eb Ab Eb
lonesome I could cry.
#2.
Ab Eb Ab
I've never seen a night so long, when time goes
Eb Ab
crawling by.
Db Ab Eb Ab
The moon just went behind the clouds, to hide
Eb Ab
it's face and cry.
INTERLUDE:HARMONICA: Cm Fm Bb Ab
#3.
Ab Eb Ab Eb
Did you ever see a robin weep, when leaves begin
Ab Eb Ab
to die.
Db Ab Eb Ab
That means he's lost the will to live..I'm so
Bbm Ab Db
lonesome I could cry.
#4.
Ab Fm Ab Eb Ab Fm Ab
The silence of a falling star, lights up a pur-ple
Eb
sky.
Ab Db Ab Eb
And as I wonder where you are..I'm so lonesome I
Ab
could cry.
OUTRO:HARMONICA: Bbm Cm Fm Bbm Bb Eb Ab..Gb Cm Ab
A fifties/sixties smash from Kraziekhat.
#94 on CASH BOX and #89 on BB Hot 100 on
CADENCE Records in 1962.
INTRO:HARMONICA: B Ab Fm Db Ab..Bbm Cm Fm
Bb Eb Bbm Ab
#1.
Abm7 Ab
Hear that lonesome whippoorwill, he sounds too
Eb Ab Eb
blue to fly.
Ab Db Ab Eb Ab
The midnight train is whining low..I'm so
Eb Ab Eb
lonesome I could cry.
#2.
Ab Eb Ab
I've never seen a night so long, when time goes
Eb Ab
crawling by.
Db Ab Eb Ab
The moon just went behind the clouds, to hide
Eb Ab
it's face and cry.
INTERLUDE:HARMONICA: Cm Fm Bb Ab
#3.
Ab Eb Ab Eb
Did you ever see a robin weep, when leaves begin
Ab Eb Ab
to die.
Db Ab Eb Ab
That means he's lost the will to live..I'm so
Bbm Ab Db
lonesome I could cry.
#4.
Ab Fm Ab Eb Ab Fm Ab
The silence of a falling star, lights up a pur-ple
Eb
sky.
Ab Db Ab Eb
And as I wonder where you are..I'm so lonesome I
Ab
could cry.
OUTRO:HARMONICA: Bbm Cm Fm Bbm Bb Eb Ab..Gb Cm Ab
A fifties/sixties smash from Kraziekhat.
Johnny Vazquez
Johnny Wakelin
Johnny Winter
Johnny Wore Blac (...)
Johnny Wright