Elizabeth Jane Anderson (née Haaby; January 13, 1927 -
October 31, 2011) was an American country music singer-songwriter who was one
in a wave of new-generation female vocalists in the genre during the 1960s to
write and record her own songs on a regular basis.
Born Elizabeth Jane Haaby in Roseau, Minnesota, she
played the family mandolin as a child and also sang in the local church. At age
13, the family moved west to Grand Forks, North Dakota. At the age of 16, Liz
was married to Casey Anderson and then had her daughter Lynn a year later. She
studied at the Redwood City Business College in Redwood City, California, and
worked as a secretary.
In 1957, the family moved to Sacramento, California. The
limited popularity at the time of country music in California led Anderson to
start writing songs. Casey was a member of the Sheriff's Posse, which was going
to take part in the National Centennial Pony Express Celebration. Casey
convinced his wife to write a song in honor of the Pony Express. The song was
named the official song.
Anderson demo vocals were noticed by RCA producer Chet
Atkins who signed her to RCA in 1965. Almost forty at the time, Anderson's year
of birth was slightly lowered to 1930 in publicity materials of the era.
Anderson's two initial singles fared well and her third, "Game of
Triangles", with Bobby Bare and Norma Jean became a top 5 hit.
In April 1967, Anderson again had a top 5 Country hit,
"Mama Spank". Among Anderson's most popular recordings were "Go
Now Pay Later" (1966), "The Wife of the Party" (1967),
"Tiny Tears" (1967), "Thanks A Lot For Tryin' Anyway"
(1968) (written by Jim Glaser; one of her few hits written by someone else),
and "Husband Hunting" (1970).
Around this same time her only child, daughter Lynn, was
rising as a country singer. Anderson wrote a number of her daughter's early
hits, including her 1967 debut single "Ride, Ride, Ride", as well as
her first big hit, the top 5 "If I Kiss You (Will You Go Away)" (also
in 1967). Liz and Lynn had a top 25 duet with "Mother May I" in 1968,
and appeared together on a Mother's Day episode of the Lawrence Welk Show that
May. Lynn would later have her biggest success in the 1970s, becoming one of
country music's most successful female vocalists.
In 1971, she moved to Epic Records, and released the four
charting singles produced by then son-in-law Glenn Sutton which went no higher
than the Country top 60. One of those singles was a cover version of "I'll
Never Fall In Love Again". In 1974 she released a Christmas single, the
self-penned "Christopher the Christmas Seal", on the small Hobby
Horse Records label.
Anderson did not record again until she released a single
for the Scorpion Records label in 1978 that did not chart. She continued to write,
however, and one of her songs was a top-40 country success for Faron Young in
1977. In 1979, Lorrie Morgan had one of her first charted songs with an
Anderson composition "Tell Me I'm Only Dreaming" which went to number
88 in 1979 and was one of the last charting songs written by Anderson.
Anderson's lone 1980s recording was the album My Last
Rose for Tudor Records which contained original material and covers of
well-known songs. In the mid-1990s, Anderson started her own record company,
Showboat Records. The Cowgirl Way was her first album in over a decade. She
also recorded an album of Christmas songs and another one of children's songs,
most of them written by her. In 2006, Lynn Anderson released an album for the
label entitled Cowgirl, composed entirely of songs penned by her mother.
Liz Anderson died on October 31, 2011, in Nashville,
Tennessee, from complications of heart and lung disease. (Info edited from Wikipedia)
For “Liz Anderson Sings (1967)” go here:
ReplyDeletehttp://www11.zippyshare.com/v/56781721/file.html
01 No One Will Ever Know
02 Walk Out Backwards
03 So Much For Me, So Much For You
04 Tippy Toeing
05 Hundred Times Today
06 Be Quiet Mind
07 To The Landlord
08 I've Cried The Rain Down
09 Too Many Rivers
10 Mama Spank
11 How To Break Up
12 Release Me
For “Cookin' Up Hits - Liz Anderson (1967)” go here:
http://www11.zippyshare.com/v/55176456/file.html
01 Never Ever
02 Tiny Tears
03 I'm A Lonesome Fugitive
04 On Your Way To Gone
05 Spirit Of Christmas
06 Ride, Ride, Ride
07 Chisler
08 Come Walk In My Shoes
09 Grandma's House
10 If I Kiss You (Will You Go Away)
11 Never Is A Long, Long Day
12 Behind My Back
Thanks to Maria @ El Rancho for active links.