Loving You Just Crossed My Mind

Loving You Just Crossed My Mind was my first album. It was recorded at Capitol Records in Los Angeles, California. The songs included:

Side 1:

1.   Loving You Just Crossed My Mind
2.   Blue Time
3.   Before Your Eyes
4.   Jesse California
5.   Can't Help Wondering

Side 2:

6.   Long Road To Texas
7.   Molly Bee
8.   Cry Me A Song
9.   Every Day Is The Same As Today
10. Pray

Click HERE to listen to some sample clips.

The Very Rare Original Release
Long Road To Texas

Look at the photo of the album cover to the right. Notice something different? The title is "Long Road To Texas!"

There were 10,000 of these albums released before it was pulled off the shelf and returned to Capitol Records to add "Loving You Just Crossed My Mind" and "Everyday Is The Same As Today". The record company added the songs and then re-released it under the title of "Loving You Just Crossed My Mind". Two songs: "Everyman's A Sailor" and "Change A Sad To A Happy Song" were replaced by the new songs.

Without question, this is the rarest of Sam Neely albums.

This album was originally released as The Long Road Texas. The record company recalled the albums to add "Loving You Just Crossed My Mind" and "Can't Help Wondering". This is a rare album. Thank you Jimmy Glock for providing the photographs.

The back of the Long Road To Texas album. This album was recalled in order to add "Loving You Just Crossed My Mind" and "Can't Help Wondering". The album was re-issued as "Loving You Just Crossed My Mind". Thank you Jimmy Glock for providing the photos of this very rare album.

Picture to the left: The back of the original release, "Long Road To Texas" album. Essentially the same back as the "Loving You Just Crossed My Mind" album, except it doesn't include the songs "Loving You Just Crossed My Mind" and "Everyday Is The Same As Today".

Thanks to Jimmy Glock for providing the two pictures of this very rare album.

Scroll down for the song list.

For those of you interested in the "Long Road To Texas" song list:

Side 1:

Long Road To Texas
Blue Time
Before Your Eyes
Jessie California
Can't Help Wondering

Side 2:

Cry Me A Song
Molly Bee
Everyman's A Sailor *
Change A Sad To A Happy Song *
Pray

* - Songs not released on the second issue and renamed to "Loving You Just Crossed My Mind" album.

"Everyday's The Same As Today" and "Loving You Just Crossed My" Mind replaced "Everyman's A Sailor" and "Change A Sad To A Happy Song".

"Loving You Just Crossed My Mind" was recorded at Crystal Sound and Devenshire Studios. "The album doesn't show Devenshire, but that's where it was recorded." - Ref. Sam Neely