I'm Just a Country Boy

Cover versions

• In 1960 Sam Cooke recorded the song as the second track on his album Swing Low.
• In 1962 Steve Camacho released the song on the album "Folk and other songs" with the title "Turtle Dove".
• Bobby Vinton covered the song on his 1966 LP Country Boy.
• In 1967, Julie Felix' version "I'm Just A Country Girl" appeared on EP "Songs from the Frost Report, Part 2". Also in this case Fred Brooks and Marshall Barer were identified as the creators of the song.
• American country music artist Don Williams released his version in July 1977 as the first single from the album Country Boy. "I'm Just a Country Boy" was Don Williams' seventh number one on the country chart. The single stayed at number one for one week and spent a total of eleven weeks on the country chart.
• Richard Manuel of The Band recorded the song in 1985. It was one of his last recordings before his death, and was released posthumously as "Country Boy" on The Band's 1993 album Jericho.
• In 2007, the song was included in Alison Krauss' CD as "You're Just a Country Boy". In the booklet that comes with the CD, Fred Hellerman and Marshall Barer are given the credits for the song. The text of the booklet indicates unawareness of recorded versions before Don Williams'.
• Other known versions are: George McCurn - March 16 1963, Jim Ed Brown - 1965, Ronnie Lane - 1975; Jimmie Rodgers; Jim Croce ; Roger Whittaker; David Ball; John Holt; The Brothers Four; Bobby Vinton.
• 60s pop icon Bobby Vee recorded the song in his final sessions, released in 2014 as The Adobe Sessions

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