THERE STANDS THE GLASS

Created on 24/03/2006
Latest update on 09/01/2023

Artist: Blaine Smith
Author: Mary Jean Shurtz/Russ Hull
Label: Dome
Year: 1950

Country singer-songwriter from Iowa.

Covers:

1953:

Webb Pierce [N°1 C&W; helped him afford his guitar-shaped swimming pool in Nashville; not so much a song about booze, more about adultery; in fact one of the first successful in country music, thanks to the juke boxes and lonesome drinking bar patrons feeding them]

1954:

Betty Cody [answer song as Please Throw Away The Glass]

1961:

Billy Walker

1964:

Carl Smith [title track lp]

1965:

Scott McKenzie

1966:

Conway Twitty

1968:

Jerry Lee Lewis

1968:

Wanda Jackson

1973:

Johnny Bush

1981:

Loretta Lynn

1982:

Hoyt Axton [as There Stands The Grass]

1986:

Ted Hawkins [as There Stands A Glass]

1990:

Country Rockers

2006:

Van Morrison

2008:

Patty Loveless

2013:

BR5-49

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