Leroy Drumm: Difference between revisions

Drumm began writing in 1952. In 1961 he was introduced to Pete Goble in a bar one night. Leroy showed Pete the lyrics he had been writing and Pete said they didn'tdid not make any sense. In Leroy's own words, Pete said "They was garbage, and a waste of his time to even look at them". Leroy was disgusted with these sort of comments, and he gave all the lyrics he had in a folder (about 200–250) "to a guy in the bar that night". He said "By doing this, I guess it was to assure myself that I'd no longer try to do something that I'd had no success at." In 1971, Pete reached out to Leroy to come co-write with him on songs.{{citation needed|date=October 2016}} He had a successful run at writing some top songs in the 10 years since 1961 to include "Big Spike Hammer" with Bobby Osborne. Once Leroy and Pete started writing, it all became a reality for Leroy, and since then his songs have been recorded by various notable artists. In 1974, Drumm had four songs recorded on the Country Gentlemen's album ''Remembrances & Forecasts'', "Willow Creek Dam", "Delta Queen" about the actual river boat the [[Delta Queen]], "Billy McGee The Drummer Boy", and "Circuit Rider". In 1976 he was honored to have the Country Gentlemen use his song "Joe's Last Train" as the title track of their next album and the song "This Land Must Die" was on that same album.{{citation needed|date=October 2016}}