Classic Tracks: Gettin Soft on You, Step Aside (Faron Young)

Classic Tracks: Gettin Soft on You, Step Aside (Faron Young) • Album: Step Aside, Mercury SR-61337 (1971) • Single: Getting’ Soft on You (didn’t chart) • Single: Step Aside, Mercury 73191 (No. 6, 1971) • Step Aside written By: Ray Griff • Album produced By: Jerry Kennedy • Recorded: 8/1970, Mercury Custom Recording Studio, Nashville Step Aside was the 16th album and 12th top-10 single that Faron recorded for Mercury Records to that point. Faron was fortunate to have been recording music during that era, because Nashville’s recording studios employed some of the finest session musicians in the industry. The following session musicians worked on Young’s Step Aside album. Musicians: Jerry Kennedy (lead guitar), Ray Edenton, Chip Young, Odell Martin (rhythm guitar), Harold Bradley (bass guitar), Lloyd Green ( steel), Buddy Harman (drums), Bob Moore (bass guitar), Hargus Pig Robbins (piano/keyboards), Buddy Spicher, Johnny Gimble, Red Hayes, Henry Husinger, Jim Buchanan (fiddle), Vocals: The Nashville Sounds About Faron Young: (2/25/1932 ~ 12/10/1996): Faron Young was a country music singer and songwriter from the early 1950s into the mid-1980s and one of its most colorful stars. Hits including “If You Ain’t Lovin’ (You Ain’t Livin’)” and “Live Fast, Love Hard, Die Young” marked him as a honky-tonk singer in sound and personal style and his chart-topping singles “Hello Walls” and “It’s Four in the Morning” showed his versatility as a vocalist. Young’s singles reliably charted …

Javier Solís (September 1, 1931, Mexico City, Mexico[1] April 19, 1966, Mexico City, Mexico) was a popular Mexican singer of boleros and rancheras, and film actor of the middle 20th century. Born Gabriel Siria Levario, Javier Solis became known as one of the most recognized Mariachi solo artists in Mexico. Coming from humble beginnings, at a young age Solis had to drop out of school to help support his family. He trained as an amateur boxer for six years with aspirations of turning professional, but quit after his father urged him to choose a more “decent” career. The young man used to sing in local competitions for small prizes (such as a pair of new shoes), but was eventually banned from participating because he so dominated the competition. At age 16, Solis went to Puebla, Mexico to sing with Mariachi Metepec, but it wasn’t until years later when Julito Rodriguez and Alfredo Gil of the trio Los Panchos heard him singing at a local bar that he got his first break as a recording artist. They took him to audition with CBS records where he signed a recording contract and cut his first album in 1950. His first hit, “Lloraras,” came two years later and prompted his producer Felipe Valdes Leal to give him the name Javier Solis. The vocalist came to international acclaim in 1957, making appearances in the United States, Central, and South America. Solis was the first to sing songs in a style now known as “Boleros-Rancheras.” He sang boleros typically associated with trio music …
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