Silver Threads and Golden Needles

"Silver Threads and Golden Needles"
"Silver Threads and Golden Needles"
Single by Linda Ronstadt
from the album Hand Sown ... Home Grown (1969 version); Don't Cry Now (1974 single release version)
B-side	"Don't Cry For Me Now"
Released	February 1974 (Asylum version)
Recorded	October 3, 1968 (Capitol version); June 1973 (single version)
Genre	Country
Length	2:21 (1969 Version); 2:28 (1974 Version)
Label	Asylum 11032
Songwriter(s)	Jack Rhodes and Dick Reynolds
Producer(s)	Chip Douglas (1968 version); J. D. Souther (1973 version)
Linda Ronstadt singles chronology

"Silver Threads and Golden Needles" is a song written by Dick Reynolds and Jack Rhodes.^[1] It was first recorded by Wanda Jackson in 1956. The original lyrics, as performed by Jackson, contain a verse not usually included in later versions, which also often differed in other minor details.

Other versions[]

In September 1962 a version by UK folk-pop trio The Springfields – featuring Dusty Springfield – reached no. 20 on Billboard's Hot 100.^[2] It was the first single by a British group to reach the top 20 of the Hot 100.
Skeeter Davis recorded a version in 1962 after the Springfields hit for an album track; Davis's version was released as a single by RCA in several international markets.
Hawkshaw Hawkins recorded a version in 1963 as an album track for his LP The All New Hawkshaw Hawkins.
A version recorded by The Everly Brothers appears on their 1963 LP The Everly Brothers Sing Great Country Hits.
Rose Maddox, Capitol 1964
Jody Miller released a version in 1965 which peaked at #54 on the US Billboard Hot 100.^[3]
Johnny Rivers recorded a live version in 1965 on the album Meanwhile Back at the Whisky à Go Go.
Pozo-Seco Singers (featuring Don Williams) released a version in 1966.
Hong Kong artist Nancy Sit covered the song & was released by Crane Brand Records in 1967.
An early 1960s recording by Janis Joplin is on the 1975 Janis Joplin compilation album Janis.
The Cowsills recorded the song on their studio album IIxII. It peaked number 77 on the US Billboard charts in September 1969.^[3]
Honey Ltd. released the song as a single in 1969.
The Grateful Dead performed the song several times between 1966 and 1970 featuring Bob Weir on the lead vocal and Phil Lesh singing harmony.
Linda Ronstadt recorded and released two versions of the song: the first, on her 1969 solo debut album Hand Sown ... Home Grown; the second, a country-pop crossover version for her 1973 Don't Cry Now album. The second version was released as a single and was a top 20 country hit in 1973.
English folk rock singer Sandy Denny recorded the song on her 1977 album Rendezvous and with her band Fotheringay. This version was recorded in 1970 but not completed and released until 2008. Denny significantly reworked the song into three time.
American country singer Crystal Gayle included the song on her 1993 album Best Always.
In 1993, the country trio Dolly Parton, Tammy Wynette and Loretta Lynn recorded the song together on the album Honky Tonk Angels; the song was released as a single, along with an accompanying video. It peaked at number 68 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.^[4] Parton had previously performed the song at numerous points over the years, including on her 1976-77 variety show, Dolly!, on which she was joined by guests Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris.
In 2012, The Seekers recorded the song for their 50-year anniversary album.

References[]

^ "Silver Threads and Golden Needles by The Springfields". Songfacts.com. Retrieved 28 April 2021.
^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits: Eighth Edition. Record Research. p. 592.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955–1990 - ISBN 0-89820-089-X
^ Whitburn, Joel (2013). Hot Country Songs 1944–2012. Record Research, Inc. p. 255. ISBN 978-0-89820-203-8.

[1] "Silver Threads and Golden Needles by The Springfields". Songfacts.com. Retrieved 28 April 2021.

[2] Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits: Eighth Edition. Record Research. p. 592.

[auto-3] Jump up to: ^a ^b Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955–1990 - ISBN 0-89820-089-X

[whitburn2013-4] Whitburn, Joel (2013). Hot Country Songs 1944–2012. Record Research, Inc. p. 255. ISBN 978-0-89820-203-8.

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Albums Singles Discography with Conway Twitty
1960s	"I'm a Honky Tonk Girl" "Heartaches Meet Mr. Blues" "The Darkest Day" "I Walked Away from the Wreck" "Success" "World of Forgotten People" "The Other Woman" "Before I'm Over You" "Wine, Women and Song" "Mr. and Mrs. Used to Be" (with Ernest Tubb) "Happy Birthday" "Blue Kentucky Girl" "Our Hearts Are Holding Hands" (with Ernest Tubb) "The Home You're Tearing Down" "Dear Uncle Sam" "You Ain't Woman Enough (To Take My Man)" "Don't Come Home A'Drinkin' (With Lovin' on Your Mind)" "Sweet Thang" (with Ernest Tubb) "If You're Not Gone Too Long" "What Kind of a Girl (Do You Think I Am)" "Fist City" "You've Just Stepped In (From Stepping Out on Me)" "Your Squaw Is on the Warpath" "Woman of the World (Leave My World Alone)" "Who's Gonna Take the Garbage Out" (with Ernest Tubb) "To Make a Man (Feel Like a Man)" "Wings Upon Your Horns"
1970s	"I Know How" "You Wanna Give Me a Lift" "Coal Miner's Daughter" "I Wanna Be Free" "You're Lookin' at Country" "One's on the Way" "Here I Am Again" "Rated "X"" "Love Is the Foundation" "Hey Loretta" "They Don't Make 'em Like My Daddy" "Trouble in Paradise" "Shadrack, the Black Reindeer" "The Pill" "Home" "When the Tingle Becomes a Chill" "Red, White and Blue" "Somebody Somewhere (Don't Know What He's Missin' Tonight)" "She's Got You" "Why Can't He Be You" "Out of My Head and Back in My Bed" "Spring Fever" "We've Come a Long Way Baby" "I Can't Feel You Anymore" "I've Got a Picture of Us on My Mind"
1980s	"Pregnant Again" "Naked in the Rain" "Cheatin' on a Cheater" "Somebody Led Me Away" "I Lie" "Making Love from Memory" "Breakin' It" "Lyin', Cheatin', Woman Chasin', Honky Tonkin', Whiskey Drinkin' You" "Walking with My Memories" "Heart Don't Do This to Me" "Wouldn't It Be Great" "Just a Woman" "Who Was That Stranger" "Fly Away"
1990s– 2010s	"Silver Threads and Golden Needles" (with Dolly Parton and Tammy Wynette) "Country in My Genes" "Miss Being Mrs." "Portland Oregon" (with Jack White) "Coal Miner's Daughter" (with Sheryl Crow and Miranda Lambert) "Wouldn't It Be Great" (re-recorded version) "I Fall to Pieces" "Coal Miner's Daughter" (recitation)

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1960s	"Apartment No. 9" "Your Good Girl's Gonna Go Bad" "My Elusive Dreams" (with David Houston "I Don't Wanna Play House" "Take Me to Your World" "It's All Over" (with David Houston) "D-I-V-O-R-C-E" "Stand by Your Man" "Singing My Song" "The Ways to Love a Man" "I'll See Him Through"
1970s	"He Loves Me All the Way" "Run, Woman, Run" "The Wonders You Perform" "We Sure Can Love Each Other" "Good Lovin' (Makes It Right)" "Bedtime Story" "Take Me" (with George Jones) "Reach Out Your Hand (And Touch Somebody)" "My Man (Understands)" "'Til I Get It Right" "The Ceremony" (with George Jones) "Kids Say the Darndest Things" "Another Lonely Song" "We're Gonna Hold On" (with George Jones) "(We're Not) The Jet Set" (with George Jones) "We Loved It Away" (with George Jones) "Woman to Woman" "(You Make Me Want to Be a) Mother" "I Still Believe in Fairy Tales" "'Til I Can Make It on My Own" "Golden Ring" (with George Jones) "You and Me" "Near You" (with George Jones) "(Let's Get Together) One Last Time" "One of a Kind" "Southern California" (with George Jones) "Womanhood" "They Call It Makin' Love" "No One Else in the World"
1980s	"He Was There (When I Needed You)" "Starting Over" "Two Story House" (with George Jones) "A Pair of Old Sneakers" (with George Jones) "Crying in the Rain" "Another Chance" "You Still Get to Me in My Dreams" "A Good Night's Love" "Sometimes When We Touch" (with Mark Gray) "Your Love" "Talkin' to Myself Again"
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