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Leroy Pullins
I'm A Nut
Genres: Country, Special Interest

Track Listings (27) - Disc #1
1. I'm A Nut
2. I Love You Drops
3. The Taterville Women's Auxilliary Sewing Circle
4. I've Got A Sore In My Heart
5. Billy Roy And Jackson Sam
6. I've Been Everywhere
7. Knee Deep
8. I'm Killing Myself
9. Okeefenokee
10. What's His Name
11. S Tree Towers
12. Out In The Smokehouse Takin' A Bath
13. The Interstate Is Coming Through My Outhouse
14. Tears, Tears, Tears
15. Gypsy Rose And I Don't Give A Curse
16. The Wall Around Your Heart
17. Testing 1, 2, 3
18. I-Done-You-Wrong Song
19. Swimming At The Bottom Of The Pool
20. Blinded By Love
21. Yellow
22. The Worst Was Wonderful
23. Oriental Girl
24. Meter Maid
25. Tickled Pink
26. I Ain't The Worryin' Kind
27. World (What Have I Done)

CD Details

All Artists: Leroy Pullins
Title: I'm A Nut
Members Wishing: 1
Total Copies: 0
Label: Bear Family
Original Release Date: 1/1/2007
Re-Release Date: 12/7/2007
Genres: Country, Special Interest
Styles: Classic Country, Comedy & Spoken Word
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1

Synopsis

Product Description

Many years ago, Bear Family issued an LP of Leroy Pullins' Kapp recordings. Long out-of-print, that LP created a steady demand for his recordings on CD. To date, nothing has been released on CD, not even his 1966 pop and country smash hit I'm A Nut. Now Bear Family rectifies that situation, reissuing that original LP plus every other recording we could find by Pullins, including previously unissued sides. The success of Roger Miller in the mid-1960s led others to work in his style, but no one except Pullins really managed it. The same offbeat humor, the same undercurrent of darkness and weirdness and social commentary. A minor classic.

CD Reviews

All You Ever Wanted By Leroy Pullins - And More, Much More

05/23/2008

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Carl Leroy Pullins, born in Elgin Illinois on November 12, 1940, may have had voice training by fellow C&W recording artist Billy Edd Wheeler (Ode To The Little Brown Shack Out Back), but he sounded uncannily like Roger Miller.

So much so that, when he released I'm A Nut (# 18 Country/# 57 Billboard Pop Hot 100) in June 1966 on Kapp 758, most everyone thought they were hearing yet another Roger Miller tune to go along with the thirteen hits he had registered since late 1960, among them Dang Me, Chug-A-Lug, and Do-Wacka-Do which all contained the same sort of nonsensical lyrics.

But it didn't take long for the listening audience to learn that this was not Roger and, as was the case with Ral Donner and his Elvis sound-a-like voice, the public clearly preferred the original. So, whereas Roger would go on to post another 29 hits to 1986, and be inducted into the Country Music Hall Of Fame in 1995 (three years after his untimely death), for Leroy Pullins that would be his one brief moment of chart glory.

One thing you can say about Bear Family of Germany, they are certainly willing to release CDs of some of the most obscure artists to have ever turned out records in the 1950s and 1960s, and when they do, the sound is always excellent and the packaging first rate. In this volume, which also includes the flip to his one hit, Knee Deep, they go much much deeper into the Leroy Pullins catalogue than would any North American distributor."