Gary Floater

A message from Gary Floater

I would like to thank Puffy Dan Walters, Flip Dickerson, Brandon Wayne Akins, and Marvin Hopkins for believing the songs enough to record them for this tribute album. These musicians are good people but they've still got a long way to go in my book.

There's a few old songs on this and some newer ones. They didn't sing em as good as I would have but they sure tried. I can't really undestand their vocals all the time and the drums are mixed to quite but its all right I guess. You get what you pay for.

Thanks anyway though.

I wish I wadent barred from re-recording them myself due to contractual obligations and laringitis. I wish the original master recordings I did for Columbus records back in the heyday of the 60s, 70s, and 80s wouldn't have gone out of print and burnt up in a mobile home park fire.

I know there's better songwriters out there than me but I just always wrote as real as I can.

Gary

Legendary Golf Songwirter

 
 

Gary claims that he helped a young caddy named Tony Van Zandt with his golf-themed songs in the summer of 1961. As best Gary can recall, these were the song titles:

Waitin' Round to Drive
Won't You Lend Your Clubs to Me
Greenskeeper Woman
If I Cheated You
Two Wood
Augusta Valley
Golfin' Shoes

 
 

Floater Ringtone

Now Gary can shout at you whenever you get a phone call or text message:

Here is a free Grandpa's Promise ringtone

To get the ringtone on your phone, choose "Send to Phone" below. (Or, to download to your computer, right click the above link, and choose "Save as...")

More from Gary Floater at Myxer

From the Betamax Archive

In the late 80s, I was fished out of a Dutch canal by Donovan and that's when I promised him I would change my ways...

Floater Rising

The Gary Floater Tribute is now available from CD Baby and will be released to iTunes on March 3, 2009...

A Hero Never Learns

If you ask Gary Floater what keeps him going after surviving the inevitable ups and downs of four decades of the entertainment business and after influencing three generations of country artists with his honest and bleary-eyed songwriting, he'll tell you: it started out all for the money.

And just when he seemed to be in reach of the financial decadence he'd always dreamed about - at the age of 25 - his financial prospects deteriorated after a string of ill-advised televised comments and international marriages that kept Gary from returning to the country of his birth.

Maybe it was due to lingering embarrassment over his late night televised falling-out with Telly Savalas. Maybe the distance from the red dirt of his Missouri home snuffed Gary's creative spark. Whatever the reason, from 1983 to 1993, during ten years, Gary wrote only two songs, "Grandpa's Promise" and "A Whole Lot Further To Fall."

When he was penniless and stranded in the Netherlands, selling fruit to Dutch businessmen in the subway stations of Amsterdam, that's when the songwriting began again. And that's when it became all about the music.

If you told the scruffy haired young man who grew up near in Miami, Missouri that he would write hit songs one day that inspired hundreds to sing along, to tunes like "That's When the Eagle Screams" and "It's High Time This Old Cowboy Quit Getting So Goldanged High," he wouldn't have believed you.

But he did. He's been to hell and back.

For the money. For the music. And for you - the fans.

Ten years since his last major label release, a group of artists who have been moved by Gary's works have joined together in a big public thank you to a man who made country music and did it his way.

The Floater Way.

A Hero Never Learns: The Songs of Gary Floater

Coming soon on Columbus Records...