From:   "Dik de Heer" 
Date:  Fri Feb 21, 2003  1:21 am
Subject:  Born To Be With You : Orville Couch
 
ORVILLE COUCH

Born 21 February 1935, Ferris, Texas
Died 26 May 2002, Grapevine, Texas

Orville Couch is probably best known to rockers for his Action single
"Wild Girl" (1964), with his group The Troublemakers. Couch scored
two country hits during 1962 and 1963, with "Hello Trouble (Come On 
In)" (# 5) and "Did I Miss You" (# 25), both on Vee-Jay. "Hello Trouble" 
(also the title of his sole LP, issued in 1964) was also recorded by
Buck Owens and several other country artists.

Couch was active in music his whole life, writing and singing classic
country and gospel. For many years he was a disc jockey on KZEE in
Weatherford, TX. His association with Jim Shell led him to co-writing
"Wild Girl" and "Sweet Louella" with Joe Poovey. Early released titles
included "Five Cent Candy" (Starday, 1957), "Easy Does It" (Dixie,
1958) and "Downtown" (Mercury, 1960). Following the two country hits
he went on to record for Monument, but further chart success eluded 
him and his last recordings emerged from sessions in Nashville in 1976.
Forming his own band in the mid-'60s, he worked the Las Vegas circuit
before coming back to Texas in the early '80s.

He died last year after suffering from acute lymphoblastic leukemia with
bone marrow necrosis for six months.

White Label and Buffalo Bop have reissued some of his early titles and
Dragon Street / Rollercoaster have released live performances from Big
D Jamboree broadcasts on the CD's "Guys of the Big D Jamboree" and 
"The Big D Jamboree Live, Vol. 1".

(Adapted from the obituary in Now Dig This, issue 232).