Floyd Tillman
Floyd Tillman (December 8, 1914 – August 22, 2003) was an American country musician who, in the 1930s and 1940s, helped create the Western swing and honky tonk genres. Tillman was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970 and the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1984.
Biography
Early life
Tillman grew up in the cotton-mill town of Post, Texas as a sharecropper's son. One of his early jobs was with Western Union as a telegraph operator. In the early 1930s He played mandolin at local dances and eventually took up the guitar.
Musical career
Tillman moved to San Antonio played lead guitar with Adolph Hofner, a Western swing bandleader, and soon developed into a songwriter and singer. He took a job with Houston pop bandleader Mack Clark in 1938 and played with Western swing groups fronted by Leon “Pappy” Selph and Cliff Bruner. He also worked with Ted Daffan, and singer and piano player Moon Mullican.
Tillman recorded as a featured vocalist with Selph’s Blue Ridge Playboys in 1938, the same year Floyd scored his first major songwriting hit, "It Makes No Difference Now", giving him his own Decca recording contract. Jimmie Davis purchased the song from Floyd for $300, the rights to which he got back 28 years later.
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ALBUMS
- The Country Music Hall of Fame Series released:
- The Best of Floyd Tillman released:
The Country Music Hall of Fame Series
- A Precious Memory
- Why Do I Love You
- I'm Always Dreaming of You
- Don't Be Blue
- Maybe I'll Get by Without You
- I'd Settle Down for You
- I'll Come Back to You
- Daisy May
- It's Been a Long Long Time
- I've Learned My Lesson Now
- Rio Grande
- They Took the Stars Out of Heaven
- Why Do You Treat Me This Way
- There's No Use to Try It Anymore
- Dreams Won't Let Me Forget You
- Each Night at Nine
The Best of Floyd Tillman
- Drivin' Nails in My Coffin
- Go Out and Find Somebody New
- Some Other World
- I'm Leaving This Old World Someday
- Gotta Have Something
- You Made Me Live, Love and Die
- Please Don't Pass Me By
- I'll Take What I Can Get
- I Love You So Much It Hurts
- Slipping Around
- This Cold Ware With You
- I'll Never Slip Around Again
- I Gotta Have My Baby Back
- It Had to Be That Way
- I Almost Lost My Mind
- Just as Long as I Have You
- I Don't Care Anymore
- I'm Falling for You
- Each Night at Nine
- I Love You Just as You Are
- I'll Still Be Loving You
- Just One More Time
- Call on Me (And I'll Be There)
- Let's Make Memories Tonight
Born: 1914-12-08
Died: 2003-08-22
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I Love You So Much It Hurts
by: Floyd TillmanI love you so much, it hurts me
Darlin', that's why I'm so blue
I'm so afraid to go to bed at night
Afraid of losing you
I love you so much, it hurts me
And there's nothing I can do
I want to hold you, my dear, forever and ever
I love you so much, it hurts me so
I love you so much, it hurts me
And there's nothing I can do
I want to hold you, my dear, forever and ever