Dallas Harms Explained

Dallas Harms
Birth Name:Dallas Leon Harms
Birth Date:July 18, 1935
Birth Place:Jansen, Saskatchewan, Canada
Death Place:Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Instrument:Guitar
Genre:Country
Occupation:Singer-songwriter
Years Active:1959–1984
Label:Columbia
Broadland
RCA
Associated Acts:Orval Prophet
Gene Watson

Dallas Harms (July 18, 1935 – October 12, 2019) was a Canadian country music singer-songwriter. Twenty of Harms' singles made the RPM Country Tracks charts, including the number one single "Honky Tonkin' (All Night Long)".[1] Harms was inducted into the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame in 1989.[2]

Harms was born in Jansen, Saskatchewan,[3] but was raised in Hamilton, Ontario, and was awarded the Hamilton Music Awards Lifetime Achievement Award for 2016. He died in Hamilton on October 12, 2019.[4]

Discography

Albums

YearAlbumCAN Country
1975Paper Rosie
1978The Fastest Gun11
1979Painter of Words
1982Out of Harms Way

Singles

YearSinglePeak positions
CAN CountryCAN AC
1972"In the Loving Arms of My Marie"8
1973"Old Ira Gray"1518
"Little Annie Brown"29
1974"Ruby's Lips"35
1975"Paper Rosie"21
1976"Georgia I'm Cheating on You Tonight"28
1977"Julie I Think It's Going to Rain"23
"It's Crying Time for Me"9
1978"Master of the Classical Guitar"1841
"The Fastest Gun"9
"I Picked a Daisy"7
1979"Lean on Me"23
"The Ballad of the Duke"628
"Rendezvous for Lovers"45
1980"Shelley's Last Request"31
"You're a Memory"27
1982"Honky Tonkin' (All Night Long)"1
1983"Country Fever"5
"Fooling with Fire"8
1984"Get Along Little Doggie"14

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Dallas Harms – Memory Maker. Country Music News. October 26, 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20040701114524/http://www.countrymusicnews.ca/news.ihtml?step=2&article_id=537 . July 1, 2004.
  2. Web site: Dallas Harms biography . . October 26, 2010 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100612220316/http://ccma.org/halloffame/hofprofile.cfm?AwardID=42 . June 12, 2010 .
  3. Encyclopedia: Dallas Harms . . October 26, 2010 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20101220165857/http://thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=U1ARTU0001543 . December 20, 2010 .
  4. Web site: Canadian Country Great Dallas Harms Passes . October 15, 2019 . October 16, 2019.