History Music / DonWilliams

Williams's material was characterized by his soft singing voice and lighthearted ballads. His most successful crossover hit is "I Believe in You" in 1980, which went to #24 on the pop charts. His 1979 hit "Tulsa Time," as close as his material ever got to classic/southern rock, would be covered a year later by Music/EricClapton, while another 1979 Williams' hit, "It Must Be Love," was covered by Music/AlanJackson in 2000.

* ListSong: "I Believe in You" is a list of things that the singer does ''not'' believe in, capped off with his lover as one of the things he does. (Incidentally, the original song lyrics were really a list of things he didn't believe in, such as "the rising cost of getting high." At Williams' behest, the lyrics were modified, such as in the example "the rising cost of getting '''by'''.")

* NotableMusicVideos: Country music historian Bill Malone once wrote that Don's 1972 hit "The Shelter of Your Eyes" was the earliest country song to have a promotional video. The video does not circulate today and the original has not been found on Website/YouTube[[note]]; however, several earlier songs in the country music genre have had videos, including those by Music/BuckOwens, Roy Clark and Glen Campbell[[/note]].

* TheCityVersusTheCountry: "Lord Have Mercy on a Country Boy" finds the country boy mourning the loss of his childhood hangouts to suburban growth.

* ThePowerOfLove: "Then It's Love" is about how love can't be defined in concrete terms, but rather, by "how it makes you feel" ("Well, if it knocks you off your feet, then it's love…").

An American CountryMusic singer with a career spanning from the 1960s to TheNewTens, Don Williams (May 27, 1939--September 8, 2017) started out as a member of the Pozo-Seco Singers, a folk quartet that had a handful of hits on the pop charts.

* GentleGiant: A common nickname for him, as he is very tall and imposing, but has a soft gentle singing voice.

* NotableMusicVideos: Country music historian Bill Malone once wrote that Don's 1972 hit "The Shelter of Your Eyes" was the earliest country song to have a promotional video. The video does not circulate today and the original has not been found on YouTube[[note]]; however, several earlier songs in the country music genre have had videos, including those by Music/BuckOwens, Roy Clark and Glen Campbell[[/note]].

* BreakupBreakout: From the Pozo-Seco singers.

Williams's material was characterized by his soft singing voice and lighthearted ballads. His most successful crossover hit is "I Believe in You" in 1980, which went to #24 on the pop charts.

* BSide: One of Don's earliest country hits was 1973's "Come Early Morning"/"Amanda," for which radio stations played both sides.[[note]]This was despite radio stations, by this time, being serviced only with 45 RPM records having the same song on both sides of the record; the record companies by the early 1970s were wanting specific songs played on radio, and supplying records this way discouraged disc jockeys from flipping a record that had flopped over to find a song they might have liked better ... something that had happened many times over the years.[[/note]] Despite only reaching No. 12 on the country chart, the song was one of the biggest hits of the year thanks to an extended chart run and popularity that rotated from radio station to radio station, region to region and record store to record store ... it was never massively popular all at once, but the big picture showed it was one of 1973's biggest hits despite its relatively modest chart finish.

* ListSong: "I Believe in You" is a list of things that the singer does ''not'' believe in, capped off with his lover as the one thing that he does.

An American CountryMusic singer with a career spanning from the 1960s to TheNewTens, Don Williams (May 27, 1939-September 8, 2017) started out as a member of the Pozo-Seco Singers, a folk quartet that had a handful of hits on the pop charts.

Williams signed with JMI Records as a solo artist in 1972 and scored a few hits, but achieved his breakthrough in 1974 with "I Wouldn't Want to Live If You Didn't Love Me" on ABC/Dot. He stayed with Dot until it was bought out by MCA, and later recorded for various other labels. He scored 17 #1 hits on the country charts throughout the 1970s and '80s, and even had a few hits into the early '90s. He has been semi-retired since about 1992, but continues to record sporadically to this day.

Williams's material is characterized by his soft singing voice and lighthearted ballads. His most successful crossover hit is "I Believe in You" in 1980, which went to #24 on the pop charts.

* RhymingWithItself: "Tulsa Time" rhymes "time" with "time" repeatedly.

An American CountryMusic singer with a career spanning from the 1960s to the present, Don Williams (born May 27, 1939) started out as a member of the Pozo-Seco Singers, a folk quartet that had a handful of hits on the pop charts.

Williams signed with JMI Records as a solo artist in 1972 and scored a few hits, but achieved his breakthrough in 1974 with "I Wouldn't Want to Live If You Didn't Love Me" on ABC/Dot. He stayed with Dot until it was bought out by MCA, and later recorded for various other labels. He scored 17 #1 hits on the country charts throughout the 1970s and 1980s, and even had a few hits into the early 90s. He has been semi-retired since about 1992, but continues to record sporadically to this day.

A CountryMusic singer with a career spanning from the 1960s to the present. Don Williams began his career as one fourth of the Pozo-Seco Singers, a folk group that had a handful of hits on the pop charts.

Williams signed with JMI Records in 1973 and scored a few hits, but achieved his breakthrough in 1974 with "I Wouldn't Want to Live If You Didn't Love Me" on ABC/Dot. He stayed with Dot until it was bought out by MCA, and later recorded for various other labels. He scored 17 #1 hits on the country charts throughout the 1970s and 1980s, and even had a few hits into the early 90s. He has been semi-retired since about 1992, but continues to record sporadically to this day.

!Tropes present in his work:

* ListSong: "I Believe in You" is a list of things that the singer believes in, capped off with his lover at the top spot.

* BSideHit: One of Don's earliest country hits was 1973's "Come Early Morning"/"Amanda," for which radio stations played both sides.[[note]]This was despite radio stations, by this time, being serviced only with 45 RPM records having the same song on both sides of the record; the record companies by the early 1970s were wanting specific songs played on radio, and supplying records this way discouraged disc jockeys from flipping a record that had flopped over to find a song they might have liked better ... something that had happened many times over the years.[[/note]] Despite only reaching No. 12 on the country chart, the song was one of the biggest hits of the year thanks to an extended chart run and popularity that rotated from radio station to radio station, region to region and record store to record store ... it was never massively popular all at once, but the big picture showed it was one of 1973's biggest hits despite its relatively modest chart finish.

* ListSong: "I Believe in You".

A CountryMusic singer with a career spanning from the 1960s to the present. Don Williams began his career as one fourth of the Poco-Sezo Singers, a folk group that had a handful of hits on the pop charts.

* BreakupBreakout: From the Poco-Sezo singers.