Freddy Weller

Wilton Frederick "Freddy" Weller (born September 9, 1943) is an American rock and roll and country music artist. He recorded for Columbia Records between 1969 and 1980. He had his highest charted single in 1969 with his debut release, "Games People Play". He wrote with Mac Davis on Glen Campbell's "Within My Memory" on A New Place In The Sun in 1968.

Biography

Early career He was born in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. Weller played in a high school group, The Believers, which also included Joe South.

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; Chuck Berry'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 Tommy Roe 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

Singles Song titlesYear"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

Singles Year Single Chart Positions Album US Country US Bubbling CAN Country 1969 "Games People Play" 2 — — Games People Play "These Are Not My People" 5 13 — "Down in the Boondocks" 25 — — Listen to the Young Folks 1970 "I Shook the Hand" 75 — — 1971 "The Promised Land" 3 25 9 The Promised Land /Another Night of Love "Indian Lake" 3 8 4 "Another Night of Love" 5 — 13 1972 "Ballad of a Hillbilly Singer" 26 — 12 The Roadmaster "The Roadmaster" 17 — 29 "She Loves Me (Right Out of My Mind)" 11 — 3 1973 "Too Much Monkey Business" 8 — 7 Too Much Monkey Business "The Perfect Stranger" 13 — 7 1974 "I've Just Got to Know (How Loving You Would Be)" 11 — 11 Sexy Lady "Sexy Lady" 21 — 22 "You're Not Getting Older (You're Getting Better)" 16 — 20 1975 "Love You Back to Georgia" 64 — — Freddy Weller "Stone Crazy" 52 — — 1976 "Ask Any Old Cheater Who Knows" 42 — — Liquor, Love and Life "Liquor, Love and Life" 44 — — "Room 269" 56 — — 1977 "Strawberry Curls" 79 — — One Man Show "Merry-Go-Round" 41 — — "Nobody Cares But You" 44 — — 1978 "Let Me Fall Back in Your Arms" 93 — — single only "Bar Wars" 32 — 58 Love Got in the Way "Love Got in the Way" 23 — 34 1979 "Fantasy Island" 27 — 32 "Nadine" 40 — 53 singles only "That Run-Away Woman of Mine" 44 — — "Go for the Night" 33 — — Go for the Night 1980 "A Million Old Goodbyes" 66 — — "Lost in Austin" 45 — 51 2010 "Your Memory Walks Through Walls" — — — single only