Written by: Chuck Howard, Larry Kingston
Recorded: 26 June 1970
Producer: Pete Drake
Engineer: Scotty Moore
Released: 25 September 1970 (UK), 28 September 1970 (US)
Available on:
Beaucoups Of Blues
Personnel
Ringo Starr: vocals
Charlie Daniels, Chuck Howard, Jerry Kennedy, Dave Kirby, Sorrells Pickard, Jerry Shook: guitar
Ben Keith/Pete Drake: pedal steel guitar
Jim Buchanan/George Richey/Grover Lavender: fiddle
Roy Huskey Jr: upright bass
Buddy Harman/DJ Fontana: drums
‘I’d Be Talking All The Time’ is the sixth song on Beaucoups Of Blues, Ringo Starr’s second solo album.
It was written by Chuck Howard and Larry Kingston. Howard also wrote ‘Love Don’t Last Long’, ‘I Wouldn’t Have You Any Other Way’, and ‘Waiting’, while Kingston wrote ‘Wine, Women and Loud Happy Songs’ and co-wrote ‘Fastest Growing Heartache In The West’ with Fred Dycus.
In the studio
Beaucoups Of Blues was recorded at Music City Recorders in Nashville, TN, with a number of local musicians, some of whom had appeared on Bob Dylan’s albums Nashville Skyline and Self Portrait. The album was produced by Pete Drake, with Elvis Presley’s guitarist Scotty Moore engineering.
The sessions took place from 6pm-9pm and 10pm-1am over three nights, from 25-27 June 1970. ‘I’d Be Talking All The Time’ was recorded during the first session on the night of 26 June.
Lyrics
If I talked about the good times
There wouldn’t be much to say
For seldom happy memories come to mind
If I talked about the sleepless nights
You brought my way
I’d be talking all the time
For every dream that came my way
A million passed me by
I thought I couldn’t be hurt more
Then you said goodbye
If talking now of other things
Would get you off my mind
I’d be talking all the time
For every dream that came my way
A million passed me by
I thought I couldn’t be hurt more
Then you said goodbye
If talking now of other things
Would get you off my mind
I’d be talking all the time
Yeah Ringo’d be talking all the time
