History Music / BuckOwens

* BlandNameProduct: His 1977 single "World Famous Holiday Inn" had to be pulled and re-recorded as "World Famous Paradise Inn" when radio stations who had rival hotel chains like Ramada Inn as advertising clients refused to play the song (which is kind of funny since the song, about a guy forced to live in a hotel after his lover leaves him, doesn't exactly paint Holiday Inn in a favorable light).

* BlandNameProduct: His 1977 single "World Famous Holiday Inn" had to be pulled and re-recorded as "World Famous Paradise Inn" when radio stations who had rival hotel chains like Ramada Inn as advertising clients refused to play the song.

* NotableMusicVideos: "Tall Dark Stranger" and "Big In Vegas," both 1969, were among the first in the genre.

Alvis Edgar "Buck" Owens Jr. (August 12, 1929 – March 25, 2006) was a CountryMusic singer and songwriter. He was a pioneer of the "Bakersfield sound", an electric guitar-driven ThreeChordsAndTheTruth style, often relying on his band, the Buckaroos. The "Bakersfield sound" was later seen in artists like Music/MerleHaggard (who later married Owens' ex-wife, Bonnie Campbell) and Music/DwightYoakam. Frequent collaborators included Susan Raye, Rose Maddox, and son Buddy Alan.

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Alvis Edgar "Buck" Owens Jr. (August 12, 1929 – March 25, 2006) was a CountryMusic singer. He was a pioneer of the "Bakersfield sound", an electric guitar-driven ThreeChordsAndTheTruth style, often relying on his band, the Buckaroos. The "Bakersfield sound" was later seen in artists like Music/MerleHaggard (who later married Owens' ex-wife, Bonnie Campbell) and Music/DwightYoakam. Frequent collaborators included Susan Raye, Rose Maddox, and son Buddy Alan.

Alvis Edgar "Buck" Owens (1929-2006) was a CountryMusic singer. He was a pioneer of the "Bakersfield sound", an electric guitar-driven ThreeChordsAndTheTruth style, often relying on his band, the Buckaroos. The "Bakersfield sound" was later seen in artists like Music/MerleHaggard (who later married Owens' ex-wife, Bonnie Campbell) and Music/DwightYoakam. Frequent collaborators included Susan Raye, Rose Maddox, and son Buddy Alan.

!Tropes present in Buck's work:

* Main/FiveStagesOfGrief: Don Rich was the man that helped Buck perfect his trademark Bakersfield Sound and served as the leader of the Buckaroos, which backed Buck throughout his career. He was Buck's best friend. On July 17, 1974, Don lost his life in a motorcycle accident ... and Buck's life changed for many years. For almost a decade, Buck was stuck in the first stage -- deep, deep denial -- and it barely got to the third (anger and deep depression). It very nearly destroyed his career ... Buck seemed content with his other close friend, Roy Clark, doing ''Series/HeeHaw'' while recording music that was anything but the country music fans knew him for. Buck eventually recovered from his grief when Dwight Yoakam came along, but things were never the same for the originator of the Bakersfield Sound.

* BigApplesauce: "I Wouldn't Live in New York City (If They Gave Me The Whole Dang Town)"

* MonsterMash: "(It's a) Monsters' Holiday"

* RereleaseTheSong: In 1989, he re-recorded "Act Naturally" as a duet with Music/RingoStarr, followed immediately by a re-recording of hs 1965 hit "Gonna Have Love".

* GenreAdultery: His music was mainly country, but every now and then he'd throw a curveball such as the fuzztone in "Who's Gonna Mow Your Grass." He also caught flack for recording songs that some critics said were not country songs, examples being 1969's "Johnny B. Goode," which Owens did rockabilly style; and a 1971 cover of SimonAndGarfunkel's "Bridge Over Troubled Water," which was given a country gospel arrangement. Owens responded to criticism he was breaking a pledge he had made some years earlier (that he would never record a song that wasn't a country song) by saying he vowed only to not record in a pop country vein, not that he wouldn't record songs that were originally pop in rockabilly or other accepted country styles.
** Owens' pledge to record only pure country music went completely out the window in the late 1970s when – still in a haze of grief over the 1974 death of his best friend Don Rich – he began recording music in a pop country style. It was for Warner Bros. Records, for whom he recorded from 1976 to 1981; although the music itself wasn't terrible, it was also devoid of the signature Buck Owens sound, something he himself has pointed out. To his credit, he blamed only himself for what he considered to be his worst music, and only one of his songs from his Warner Bros. era – "Play Together Again, Again," a duet he recorded with Emmylou Harris and just missed the top 10 of the country charts in 1979 – remains in print today.

* GenreAdultery: His music was mainly country, but every now and then he'd throw a curveball such as the fuzztone in "Who's Gonna Mow Your Grass." He also caught flack for recording songs that some critics said were not country songs, examples being 1969's "Johnny B. Goode," which Owens did rockabilly style; and a 1971 cover of SimonAndGarfunkel's "Bridge Over Troubled Water," which was given a country gospel arrangement. Owens responded to criticism he was breaking a pledge he had made some years earlier (that he would never record a song that wasn't a country song) by saying he vowed only to not record in a pop country vein, not that he wouldn't record rockabilly or other accepted country styles.

* GenreAdultery: His music was mainly country, but every now and then he'd throw a curveball such as the fuzztone in "Who's Gonna Mow Your Grass." He also caught flack for recording songs that some critics said were not country songs, examples being 1969's "Johnny B. Goode," which Owens did rockabilly style; and a 1971 cover of SimonAndGarfunkel's "Bridge Over Troubled Water," which was given a country gospel arrangement). Owens responded to criticism he was breaking a pledge he had made some years earlier (that he would never record a song that wasn't a country song) by saying he vowed only to not record in a pop country vein, not that he wouldn't record rockabilly or other accepted country styles.

* GenreAdultery: His music was mainly country, but every now and then he'd throw a curveball such as the fuzztone in "Who's Gonna Mow Your Grass." He also caught flack for recording songs that some critics said were not country songs, examples being 1969's "Johnny B. Goode" (which Owens did rockabilly style) and a 1971 cover of SimonAndGarfunkel's "Bridge Over Troubled Water" (which Owens gave a country gospel arrangement). Owens responded to the criticism (that he was breaking a pledge he had made some years earlier that he would never record a song that wasn't a country song) by saying he vowed only to not record in a pop country vein, not that he wouldn't record rockabilly or other accepted country styles.

** Owens' pledge to record only pure country music went completely out the window in the late 1970s when – still in a haze of grief over the 1974 death of his best friend Don Rich – he began recording music in a pop country style. It was for Warner Bros. Records, for whom he recorded from 1976 to 1981; although the music itself wasn't terrible, it was also devoid of the signature Buck Owens sound, something he himself has pointed out. To his credit, he blamed only himself for what he considered to be his worst music, and only one of his songs from that era – "Play Together Again, Again," a duet he recorded with Emmylou Harris and just missed the top 10 of the country charts in 1979 – remains in print today.

* GenreAdultery: His music was mainly country, but every now and then he'd throw a curveball such as the fuzztone in "Who's Gonna Mow Your Grass".

Owens was also the host of the long-running country music comedy show ''Series/HeeHaw''.

* ChristmasSongs: "Santa Looked a Lot Like Daddy" is one of the most recognizable and most covered in the genre.

* NotableMusicVideos: "Tall Dark Stranger" was one of the first in the genre.

Alvis Edgar "Buck" Owens (1929-2006) was a CountryMusic singer. He was a pioneer of the "Bakersfield Sound", an electric guitar-driven ThreeChordsAndTheTruth style, often relying on his band, the Buckaroos. Owens' influence was widespread rubbing off on artists like Music/MerleHaggard (who later married Owens' ex-wife, Bonnie Campbell) and Music/DwightYoakam. Frequent collaborators included Susan Raye, Rose Maddox, and son Buddy Alan.

Alvis Edgar "Buck" Owens (1929-2006) was a CountryMusic singer. He was a pioneer of the "Bakersfield Sound", an electric guitar-driven ThreeChordsAndTheTruth style, often relying on his band, the Buckaroos. Owens' influence was widespread rubbing off on artists like Music/MerleHaggard and Music/DwightYoakam.

* VocalEvolution: His delivery became very slurred after he had throat cancer removed in 1993.