Mel Tillis Sawmill (1973) MGM SE-4907 1. Sawmill 2. Leona 3. Bobbie 4. Borrowed Angel 5. Remembering 6. Live In My Heart 7. Cheap Imitation 8. If I Throw Away My Pride 9. Take A Look At Me 10. Thank You For Being You
Just heard it for the first time, great song, great artist, his daughter pam approached me at her concert 8 years ago, she came right up to me before the show and took my hand and said i had a great smile, never forget that, they are both legends.
Great song, heard for the first time fairly recently I feel it is underrated, peaked at #2 on the charts sounds like a #1 hit. There are other country songs about working class life but I'm hard pressed to think of one I like better than this.
Good song! I had forgot about this one. Funny how a guy who studdered when he talked was not only able to sing without stuttering but, sing with such a smooth voice. I always say, Mel was proof that you can do anything if, you want to, there are no limits!
I've always loved this song and now days it makes me think of my daddy because he may not have worked in a sawmill but the first 20 years of my life he worked in the cotton mill in our hometown and sadly daddy and the cotton mill are both gone and our town is mainly a grocery store and fast food restaurant (burger joint) town now along with a few other non-industrial businesses
Grew up with Mel songs, and glad i heard it on XM yesterday. Reminded me of the days before voice tone and all the "bubble gum " crap we have now. Mel,Hank,Lefty,Waylon, and all others are national treasures in country music and should have bronze statues in the towns that they were raised in.
WOW, this Song brings back some BIG TIME Memories. I was a young 18 year old Foreman, on a Construction Framing Crew. Every time this Song was played on the Radio, the whole Crew would stop, and start singing along to the Lyrics. It was crazy funny, could've been a Music Video segment for Television. When the Song finished, the Crew was motivated enough to work their asses off until it was played again, later in the day. It was hard, Slave labor work, back in the day, it also was an extremely fun Atmosphere to work in.
@@brianjohnson6053 HRY DUDE, I WAS BADASS WHEN I WAS YOUNG, MY OLDER BROTHER EVENWORKED UNDER ME, AND IT 'S NO BULLSHIT. I RAN INTO THAT BOSS ABOUT 20 YEARS LATER, AND HE STILL SAYS HE NEVER HAD A BETTER LEADER.I WAS THE LEAD LAYOUT MAN, AND EVERY CREW MEMBER FOLLOWED RIGHT BEHIND ME.
Dam it doesn't this bring back some dam good times.YEAH I wish time was like it was back when this song was played.no choreograph here straight from the soul
On this day in 1973 {November 4th} Mel Tillis' "Sawmill"* peaked at #2 {for 1 week} on Billboard's Hot Country Singles chart, for the week it was at #2, the #1 record for that week was "Paper Roses" by Marie Osmond... It reached #5 on the Canadian RPM Country Singles chart... Between 1958 and 1989 Mel Tillis had seventy-five records on the Hot Country Singles chart, thirty-five made the Top 10 with six reaching #1... Thirteen of his seventy-five charted records with duets, seven with Sherry Brych, two with Nancy Sinatra, and one each with Bill Phillips, Bob Wills, Webb Pierce, and Glen Campbell... Lonnie Melvin 'Mel' Tillis passed away at the age of 85 on November 19th, 2017... May he R.I.P. * "Sawmill" was Mel Tillis' first of three records to peak at #2 on the Hot Country Singles chart, his other two were "Midnight, Me, and the Blues" {1974} and "Send Me Down To Tucson" {1979}... And from the 'For What It's Worth' department, the remainder of Billboard's Hot Country Singles Top 10 on November 4th, 1973: At #3. "Country Sunshine" by Dottie West #4. "We're Gonna Hold On" by George Jones and Tammy Wynette #5. "Don't Give Up On Me" by Jerry Wallace #6. "Ridin' My Thumb To Mexico" by Johnny Rodriguez #7. "The Most Beautiful Girl" by Charlie Rich #8. "'Til The Water Stops Runnin'" by Billy 'Crash' Craddock #9. "I'm Your Woman" by Jeanne Pruett #10. "Sing About Love" by Lynn Anderson
My daddy worked down there at the saw mill, the plainer mill, for an old man named Dixon. Old man Dixon was very cruel feller. Didn't treat his employees very well, didn't pay 'em too much a wage, didn't pay my daddy too much a wage. Just barely enough to get by on, I reckon. But I reckon he got by alright.
I had a chance to meet Mel and Pam his daughter they were both very nice people it was really cool because we were uninterrupted by anybody else and me and Mel stood there and just talked about prices of diesel fuel and what was going on in the economy and it was just a good conversation very nice man
Well, once I was a slave at the sawmill Talk about a poor boy, talk about a poor boy Never saw a dollar bill Well, my work was so hard at the sawmill Think about a poor boy, think about a poor boy When you go to write your will Well, seen my teardrops falling down My wife left this sawmill town She said, sawmill life had many sins 'Cause the gravy was too thin I can't work no more at the sawmill Mercy on a poor boy, mercy on a poor boy Let me have a dollar bill If you bring your wife to the sawmill Well, how you gonna please her, how you gonna please her When she wants a dollar bill They're not satisfied at the sawmill Women like a dollar, women like a dollar Yes, and women always will Seen my teardrops falling down My wife left this sawmill town She said the sawmill life had many sins, Lord 'Cause the gravy was too thin I can't work no more at the sawmill Mercy on a poor boy, mercy on a poor boy Let me have a dollar bill Mercy on a poor boy, mercy on a poor boy Let me have a dollar bill
is there an original video... oh! Mel hit me at 14-15... had my 'rones a rolling... &determined t'ata' move! Really, up' ta... and moved... 'cause 'mones'. lol Geez 'live! It was him, & his music, + the time... Then, the rest is in the book. "Woman like a dollar!" ...need apee now ;p
Aw hell I work at a sawmill, in the planer division anyway, and I can't complain about the work and the pay is great lol. But in the States in the 70's I guess it was a whole different ball game lol
