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Webb Pierce performs "I'm Walking The Dog"

Michael Webb Pierce (August 8, 1921 – February 24, 1991) was an American honky tonk vocalist, songwriter and guitarist of the 1950s, one of the most popular of the genre, charting more number one hits than any other country artist during the decade.

 

His biggest hit was "In the Jailhouse Now," which charted for 37 weeks in 1955, 21 of them at number one. Pierce also charted number one for several weeks each with his recordings of "Slowly" (1954), "Love, Love, Love" (1955), "I Don't Care" (1955), "There Stands the Glass" (1953), "More and More" (1954), "I Ain't Never" (1959), and his first number one "Wondering," which stayed at the top spot for four of its 27 weeks' charting in 1952. His iconic hit "Teenage Boogie" was covered by British singer Marc Bolan as "I Love to Boogie" in 1974, but strangely credited to Bolan and not Pierce. The music of Webb was also made popular during the British rockabilly scene in the 1980s and 1990s.

 

For many, Pierce, with his flamboyant Nudie suits and twin silver dollar-lined convertibles, became the most recognizable face of country music of the era and its excesses. Pierce was a one-time member of the Grand Ole Opry and was posthumously inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. A tribute album in his honor (produced by singer/songwriter Gail Davies) was released in 2001 entitled Caught In The Webb - A Tribute To Country Legend Webb Pierce.

Webb Pierce - I'm Walking The Dog Lyrics

 

I'm walking the dog and I'm never blue

I'm walking the dog, I ain't thinkin' bout you

Don't need no one to tie me down

I'm walking the dog and I'm paintin' the town

Such an easy life, I never knew

Until the day that I left you

Well, I'm a carefree lad that's seen the light

I'm walking the dog, all the day and all night

Well, I'm full of pep, I just can't grow old

I got a one track mind, so I've been told

But I'm fancy free, I don't worry no how

And I'm walking the dog all the law allow

Such an easy life, I never knew

I can't believe it's really true

Well, I'm a carefree lad that's seen the light

And I'm walking the dog all the day and all night


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