Frogtoon Music

Does It Matter by Eddie Noack

Artist Biography For Eddie Noack

Eddie Noack De Armand A. Noack Jr. Houston Texas April 29 1930 – February 5 1978 Was An American Country And Western Singer Songwriter And Music Industry Executive Best Known For His 1968 Recording Of The Serial Killer Song Psycho Written By Leon Payne On K-Ark Record Label And Produced By John Capps. Eddie Noack Attended Baylor University Where He Earned A Bachelor Of Arts Degree In English And Journalism. According To Bob Dylan On The Theme Time Radio Hour Broadcast On January 24 2007 "He Wanted To Be A Journalist. But We Have Enough Journalists But Not Enough People Who Could Sing And Write Like Eddie Noack. Eddie Recorded The Song Called Psycho Written By Leon Payne A Song About A Serial Killer And Quite Understandably It Never Got A Lot Of Airplay But Has Become Quite A Bit Of A Cult Favorite As Is Eddie Noack Himself..." Eddie Noack Decided On A Career In Music After Winning A Talent Contest In 1947. A Honky Tonk Singer Influenced By Hank Williams He Appeared Frequently On Radio And Was Signed By Gold Star Records In 1949. That Same Year Gold Star Released His Song Gentlemen Prefer Blondes Which Was Not A Cover Of The Eponymous Song From The 1949 Musical But A Parody Of It. He Also Recorded The Single “Have Blues Will Travel/The Price Of Love” For Gold Star In 1959 But Recorded For Many Labels During The Decade Of The 1950s. He Began Recording For Four Star In 1951 As Part Of R.D. Hendon And His Western Jamboree Cowboys A Band Specializing In The Honky Tonk Country Swing And Country Boogie Styles And Later Rockabilly. 3 The Band Later Recorded Noack's Song We Smiled As A B-Side In 1956 For Starday. 4 Too Hot To Handle His Own Composition Was Leased By Four Star To The TNT Label Establishing His Reputation As A Songwriter. In 1953 He Was Signed By Starday Which Was Owned By Record Producer Pappy Daily With Whom He Would Work For The Bulk Of His Professional Career. Noack Was Drafted In 1954 And Spent Two Years In The Army. 6 Back In The Music Business He Flourished As A Songwriter At Starday With Hank Snow's Cover Of His Song These Hands Reaching No. 5 On The C W Charts In 1956. When Pappy Daily Founded D Records In 1958 He Signed Noack And His Recording Of His Own Composition Have Blues Will Travel Reached No. 14 On The Country Charts. Under The Name "Tommy Wood" Noack Recorded Rockabilly Music. Eddie Noack Quit Performing After 1959 To Concentrate On Songwriting And To Become Involved In Music Publishing. Noack Was Employed By Pappy Daily And Lefty Frizzell In Publishing While He Continued To Write Songs. His Compositions Were Covered By Many Country Singers Including Johnny Cash These Hands George Jones And Ernest Tubb. He Made Several Comebacks As A Performer But Never Reached A Wide Audience. In 1968 Noack Recorded His Cover Of "Psycho" For K-Ark Records Which Sold Little And Received Negligible Air Play. He Also Continued Recording Into The 1970s Including An Album Of Jimmie Rodgers Covers. Among The Labels He Recorded For Were All Star Records Mercury Records Tellet Country Records And Wide World Records. In 1976 Noack Moved To Nashville Where He Was Employed As An Executive With The Nashville Songwriters Association. He Recorded His Final Album That Year Which Was Released By Look Records In The United Kingdom. He Backed Up The Album With A British Tour. He Was Still An Executive With The Nashville Songwriters Association When The Hard-Drinking Noack Died Of A Cerebral Hemorrhage At Age 47 On February 5 1978 In His Home In Nashville. He Is Interred With His Wife At Woodlawn Cemetery In Nashville. Discography Gold Star 1949 1352 Gentlemen Prefer Blondes/Triflin' Mama Blues
1357 Simulated Diamonds/The Pyramid Club
1371 Hungry But Happy/Raindrops In A River - W/Bill Byrd
1391 Tragic Love/Green Back Dollar
711 Frown On The Moon/Unlucky Me Four Star 1951-53 W/R.D. Hendon And His Western Jamboree Cowboys And W/The Pecos Valley Boys X-33 R.D. Hendon The Moon Won’t Last Forever/ I Can’t Run Away 01-52 45-1595 I'd Still Want To You/Music Makin' Mama From Memphis 01-52 45-1599 Please Mr Postman/There's A Place In My Heart 03-52 X-41 I'm Going To See My Baby W. R.D.Hendon / R.D.Hendon Nervous Breakdown Ca. 04-52 X-65 First And Last Thing/Nothing Ca. 12-52 X-73 I'd Change My Rambling Ways For You/I Awake And Find You Gone Ca. 05-53 TNT 1952-54 ET-103 Please Mr Postman/There's A Place In My Heart And Four Tracks By Other Artists EP 03-52 110 Too Hot To Handle/How Does It Feel To Be The Winner 02-54 X-84 Paul Jones/Pride 04-54 ET-123 Paul Jones/Pride And Four Tracks By Other Artists EP 04-54 Starday 1954-57 45-159 Don't Trade/Take It Away Lucky 8-54 Rev. Sept. 11 1954 45-169 Left Over Lovin'/I'll Be So Good To You 12-54 45-201 If It Ain't On The Menu/Wind Me Up 08-55 45-213 Fair Today Cold Tomorrow/Don't Worry About Me Baby 11-55 45-225 When The Bright Lights Grow Dim/It Ain't Much But It's Home Rev. Feb. 18 1956 45-246 For You I Weep/You Done Got Me 06-56 Rev. June 2 1956 45-276 She Can't Stand The Light Of Day/The Worm Has Turned 12-56 45-316 Think Of Her Now/Scarecrow 08-57 45-334 Dust On The River/What's The Matter Joe 11-57 Rev. Dec. 23 1957 Dixie 1958 531 The Story Of My Life/Once More/I Can’t Help It Dixie And Three Tracks By Other Artists EP Ca. 05-58 532 Oh Lonesome Me Dixie/Stairway Of Love And Four Tracks By Other Artists Ca. 05-58 535 Blue Blue Day/Squaws Along The Yukon And Four Tracks By Other Artists Ca. 09-58 536 Invitation To The Blues/Gonna Have Myself A Party/Blue Boy And Three Tracks By Other Artists Ca. 09-58 537 City Lights/Alone With You And Four Tracks By Other Artists Ca. 09-58 D 1958-60 45-1000 Can't Play Hockey/My Steady Dream 1957 As By Tommy Wood Re. May 26 1958 1019 Have Blues Will Travel/The Price Of Sin 10-58 1037 Walk 'Em Off / I Don't Live There Anymore 11-11-58 Rev. Feb.1959 1060 A Thinkin' Man's Woman A Lovin' Man's Girl /Don't Look Behind – 02-04-59 May 18 1959 1094 Relief Is Just A Swallow Away/Man On The Wall August 23 1959 1124 Shake Hands With The Blues/Sunflower Song February 1960 1148 Firewater Luke/Too Weak To Go June 15 1960 1220 It's Hard To Tell An Old Love Goodbye/Love's Other Face 11-61 1294 Raise The Taxes/We'll Still Be On Our Honeymoon 1961 Mercury 1960-61 71705x45 I Slipped Out Of Heaven/Firewater Luke 10-60 71805 Shotgun House/Where Do You Go 04-61 Stoneway 1961-62 1002 Mama Stays Home Papa He Goes /Through These Days 1961 1008 The Countdown/Honeymoon With The Blues 1962 All Star 1961-62 7252 Too Hot To Handle/Tell Her 1962 7266 We Are The Lonely Ones/Chaperoned By A Memory 1962 Riviera 1963 No. 33 When I Get To Nashville / Christ Is The Only Ark April 27 1963 301 Papa's Hands / Would You Crucify Jesus Again 1963 All Star 1963-65 A-7296 The Fall-Out Keeps Hurtin' /Think Of Her Now 1963 7299 When The Bright Lights Grow Dim/You Can't Keep A Good Man Down Feb. 1964 7322 Two Bright Lights/Prisoner Of War Ca. 1966 REM 1966 407 Snowbird /Prisoner Of War K-Ark 1968-71 813 Cotton Mill / The End Of The Line 1968 841 Love/Buzz Buzz Buzz 1968 842 Does It Matter/Two Brown Eyes 1968 843 Psycho/Invisible Stripes 1968 885 House On The Mountain / Stolen Rose 1969 902 Dolores / Beer Drinking Blues 1970 964 Barbara Joy / Sleeping Like A Baby With A Bottle In Your Mouth 1971 Wide World 1970-71 1005 Any Old Time/Why Did You Give Me Your Love 1970 1009 Mother The Queen Of My Heart/Treasures Untold 1970 1017 He's Getting Smaller With Each Drink /Your Share 1971 1020 Whispers / Sing Me A Picture Paint Me A Song 1972 Tellet Country 1972 1001 One Light In Your Neighborhood/East Texas 1972 1002 Ain't Reaping Ever Done/Before You Use That Gun 1972 1005 These Memories Are Restless Tonight/Born Yesterday 1973 Also On Wide World WW 802 Wide World 1974 803 These Hands / The Waltz Of Goodbye 1974 Resco 1974 635 A Few Good Funerals/For Better Or Worse 1974

50 Similar Tracks:

HOME EDDIE NOACK
POPULAR TRACKS MIXES ALBUMS
Video 1 : 50