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Wilton Frederick " Freddy" Weller (born September 9, 1943)

(2026). 9780898201772, Record Research, Inc.
is an American rock and roll and and artist. He recorded for between 1969 and 1980. He had his highest charted single in 1969 with his debut release, "Games People Play".


Biography

Early career
He was born in , Georgia, United States.
(1993). 9780851127262, Guinness Publishing.
Weller played in a high school group, The Believers, which also included . One of his first recording sessions was playing guitar on Billy Joe Royal's 1965 track, "Down in the Boondocks", which was written by South.


Paul Revere & the Raiders
His recording career continued in 1967, as lead guitarist in the band Paul Revere & The Raiders. Around the time he joined the band, the group's two main members, and Paul Revere, had just started hosting the show Happening '68. The other Raiders members, Charlie Coe, , and Joe Correro Jr, acted as the show's in-studio houseband. He penned their 1969 hit "We Gotta All Get Together".

Weller remained in the Raiders until its split in 1975. The group soon reformed without Weller.


Solo
Weller recorded many rock and roll and country songs, such as Joe South's "'Games People Play", which peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart in 1969; 's "The Promised Land" and "Too Much Monkey Business", "She Loves Me Right Out Of My Mind", "Indian Lake", both 1971, and many others. Weller also played guitar backing for both South and Royal. He co-wrote "Dizzy" and "Jam Up and Jelly Tight", which were hits for in 1969 and 1970.

After releasing his 1980 single "Lost In Austin" and his 1982 studio album Ramblin' Man, Weller would semi-retire from the music industry, not making another release for thirty years, when he released the single "Your Memory Walks Through Walls" in 2010.


Discography

With Paul Revere & the Raiders

Studio albums
1967A Christmas Present ... And Past
1968Goin' to Memphis
Something Happening
1969Hard 'N' Heavy (with Marshmallow)
Alias Pink Puzz
1970Collage
1971Indian Reservation
1972Country Wine


Singles
"I Had A Dream" b/w "Upon Your Leaving"1967
"Peace Of Mind" / "Do Unto Others"
"Rain, Sleet, Snow" b/w "Brotherly Love" Cancelled single
"Too Much Talk" b/w "Happening '68"1968
"Don't Take It So Hard" b/w "Observation From Flight 285 (In 3/4 Time)"
"Cinderella Sunshine" b/w "Theme From It's Happening" (Non-Lp track)
"Mr. Sun, Mr. Moon" b/w "Without You"1969
"Let Me" b/w "I Don't Know"
"We Gotta All Get Together" b/w "Frankfort Side Street" (from Alias Pink Puzz)
"Just Seventeen" b/w "Sorceress With Blue Eyes"1970
"Gone Movin' On" (re-recorded version of Lp track from Revolution!) b/w "Interlude (To Be Forgotten)"
"Indian Reservation (The Lament of the Cherokee Reservation Indian)" b/w "Terry's Tune" (Non-Lp track)1971
"Birds of a Feather" b/w "The Turkey"
"Country Wine" b/w "It's So Hard Getting Up Today" (Non-Lp track)1972
"Powder Blue Mercedes Queen" b/w "Golden Girls Sometimes"
"Song Seller" b/w "A Simple Song"
"Love Music" b/w "Goodbye No. 9"1973
"All Over You" b/w "Seaboard Line Boogie"1974
"Your Love (Is The Only Love)" b/w "Gonna Have A Good Time"1975
"Ain't Nothin' Wrong"/ b/w "You're Really Saying Something"1976


Solo

Albums
1969Games People Play8144
1970Listen to the Young Folks
1971Another Night of Love22
1972The Promised Land
The Roadmaster39
1973Too Much Monkey Business32
1974Sexy Lady24
1975Freddy Weller's Greatest Hits34
Freddy Weller34
1976Liquor, Love & Life44
1977One Man Show
1978Love Got in the Way
1980Go For the Night
1982Ramblin' Man


Singles
1969"Games People Play"2Games People Play
"These Are Not My People"513
"Down in the Boondocks"25Listen to the Young Folks
1970"I Shook the Hand"75
1971"The Promised Land"3259The Promised Land /
Another Night of Love
"Indian Lake"384
"Another Night of Love"513
1972"Ballad of a Hillbilly Singer"2612The Roadmaster
"The Roadmaster"1729
"She Loves Me (Right Out of My Mind)"113
1973"Too Much Monkey Business"87Too Much Monkey Business
"The Perfect Stranger"137
1974"I've Just Got to Know (How Loving You Would Be)"1111Sexy Lady
"Sexy Lady"2122
"You're Not Getting Older (You're Getting Better)"1620
1975"Love You Back to Georgia"64Freddy Weller
"Stone Crazy"52
1976"Ask Any Old Cheater Who Knows"42Liquor, Love and Life
"Liquor, Love and Life"44
"Room 269"56
1977"Strawberry Curls"79One Man Show
"Merry-Go-Round"41
"Nobody Cares But You"44
1978"Let Me Fall Back in Your Arms"93single only
"Bar Wars"3258Love Got in the Way
"Love Got in the Way"2334
1979"Fantasy Island"2732
"Nadine"4053singles only
"That Run-Away Woman of Mine"44
"Go for the Night"33Go for the Night
1980"A Million Old Goodbyes"66
"Lost in Austin"4551
2010"Your Memory Walks Through Walls"single only


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