GLAD FOR YOUR SAKE Archives

“I’M GLAD FOR YOUR SAKE” (But sorry for mine) – By Des Kelly Where would you ever find song-titles like that?. I’m glad for my sake, but sorry for your’s, if you are not aware that it takes a Country Music Songwriter to think up rather long, but still very meaningful “titles” such as the above one. To top it off, the song is just another Country- favourite of mine, and I do have dozens of them, written in 1937, by Peter Tinturin and Jack Lawrence, & a bloke named Andy Kirk & his twelve clouds of joy recorded it as a single, exactly one year after this writer was born. Many Artistes of that particular era also recorded the song, but then came Douglas Sahm, born on the 6th of November 1941, dying on the 18thof November, 1999, aged just 58 years. He was considered a “child prodigy” of ...