From:   "Dik de Heer" 
Date:  Fri Mar 28, 2003  1:28 am
Subject:  Born To Be With You : Arlie Duff
 
ARLIE DUFF (By Shaun Mather)

Born Arleigh Elton Duff, 28 March 1924, Warren, Texas

Arleigh Elton Duff was born in Jack's Branch near Warren, Texas and
recorded with his Western Cherokees for Starday in 1952. Midway
through the next year he went to number 7 in the country charts with
the BMI award winning single, "Y'All Come". He was unable to follow
up this hit.

Most Shakers will be forever in love with Decca for cutting his stab at
rockabilly, Alligator Come Across. It sounds a lot like the early rocking
catalogue of George Jones. It's a bibs and overalls stomper with heaps 
of steel and rocking country guitar. The parody of Elvis halfway through 
is a classic, but all too brief moment of madness. The fiddle solo adds 
another loveable layer.

He spent years as a DJ in Colorado and Texas. He wrote Ernest Tubb's
last solo hit, "Another Story", which went to number 16 in the country 
charts in 1966. Also "It's The Little Things", , a # 1 C&W hit for Sonny
James in 1967.

In 1983 he published his autobiography, "Y'All Come" (Austin : Eakin
Press), now out of print.

"Alligator Come Across" is on the CD "That'll Flat Git It, Vol. 6 (Bear
Family BCD 15733)