I’ll Be Lonesome When You’re Gone

I’LL BE LONESOME WHEN YOU’RE GONE

The second and last single by the Lonesome Drifter, “Honey, Do You Think of Me” b/w “I’ll be Lonesome When You’re Gone” came out on Ram Records itself. The B side had been written and recorded by Linda Brannon on Ram two years earlier. Carol Williams (who had recorded Ram Records’ first single) provided the second vocal on the Lonesome Drifter’s remake. Linda and Carol would, respectively, shortly marry Jerry Kennedy and Billy Sanford(who played guitar on the Lonesome Drifter recording of “I’ll Be Lonesome When You’re Gone”). These two men later left Shreveport to join Roy Orbison’s band; they can be heard doing the masterful guitar work on his mega-hit “Oh, Pretty Woman”.

(May 2011)