About 45 years ago, I had the idea of turning Budd Schulberg’s great screenplay into a Broadway-type musical. I presented the idea to Bill Caswell, who was a friend from Oklahoma University and worked for the same company as I – Ackerman Associates. He got kind of enthused about it, and started writing songs – and adding some songs he’d already written. He’s a terrific talent, as songwriter and singer, as the songs will prove to you if/as you listen to them.
NOTE: these are very early recordings, made on a very cheap cassette tape recorder, so the quality of the tape is pretty abysmal. But hopefully the quality of the music will still come through. Bill plays the guitar and sings most of them. I sing a few.
Remember, everything on this site is proprietary property and copyrighted by Caswell and Davidson.
Here are the songs, all bumped together. In order, they are:
00:00 Doodle Doo Doo
03:29 West of Tulsa
07:00 Quicksand and Unions
09:59 Honky Welfare Blues
12:15 Sooner or Later
14:18 Chocolate Bayou Roughnecks Baby
16:51 Face Tomorrow Like a Man
19:01 Truck Tires
21:50 Dear Mr. Lonesome Rhodes
25:03 Truck Stop Baby
27:13 Problem Child
31:34 Sycamore Leaves
35:05 Sweet Bobby Jo
36:43 Sometime Thing
38:13 Won’t Be Because We Haven’t Tried
40:38 I Don’t Need Nobody
42:15 Second Hand Smoke