“Billy Grammer, whose 1958 hit ‘Gotta Travel On’ hit the top of the charts and led to a long career on the Grand Ole Opry. A singer and guitarist who also was a Nashville recording session musician, Grammer performed regularly on the Grand Ole Opry beginning in 1959.
‘Gotta Travel On,’ adapted from a British folk tune, was a million-seller and the first hit for Nashville’s Monument Records and its famed founder, Fred Foster.” (Billboard).
“Billy Grammer formed his own guitar company after years of playing country music in and around Nashville,” (NAMM.org). ” … Along the way, Billy was seeking to create a guitar that would combine the sounds of his two favorite instruments, Martin and Gibson. By 1964 he teamed with his fishing buddy, Clyde Reid, who operated a music store, and with J. W. Gower to create the Grammer Guitar Company. This country music favorite was produced for several years with the original founders of the company before it was sold to Ampeg in the late 1960s. Ampeg stopped production of the Grammer Guitar in 1971.”
The uptempo track, which was a hit on the pop, country and rhythm & blues charts, moves up a half step at 0:58 and again at 1:38.
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