August 22nd 1962 Willie Nelson started recording his first album ...And Then I Wrote

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August 22nd: On this day 1962
Willie Nelson started recording his first album ...And Then I Wrote at Quonset Hut Studio in Nashville after signing with Liberty Records. Nelson started the recording sessions during the night, lasting until the morning of the following day.
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The recording sessions for his first album release, ...And Then I Wrote, began in the Nashville studios of Liberty Records. Nelson recorded on August 22–23, starting during the night and lasting until the morning of the following day. Dissatisfied with the results, Allison moved the sessions to the studios of the label in Los Angeles, California, where Nelson was joined by three other stellar guitarists - session leader Billy Strange, Roy Nichols from the Maddox Brothers and Rose, and Johnny Western, who had worked with Johnny Cash.
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During two sessions on September 11–12, Nelson recorded "Crazy", "Darkness on the Face of the Earth", "Three Days", "Funny How Times Slips Away", "Mr. Record Man" and "Hello Walls".
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The album's biggest hit was "Touch Me," a sad blues done in a slow drag with the rough edges smoothed out by harmony singers and a cool instrumental arrangement that reached the Top 10 and earned Nelson a place on jukeboxes throughput the United States.
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It was during the recording of "Mr. Record Man" that Nelson met his second wife Shirley Collie, with whom he would soon record the duet "Willingly", a Cochran composition.