Musical Career
His recording career started in 1969, while he was playing guitar in the band Paul Revere & The Raiders.
He recorded many country songs like Joe South's "'Games People Play", Chuck Berry's "The Promised Land" and "Too Much Monkey Business", "She Loves Me Right Out Of My Mind", "Indian Lake", "Down In The Boondocks", and many others.
Weller's biggest solo hit as a country music artist was "Games People Play," which peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart in 1969; "Promised Land" and "Indian Lake," both 1971, peaked at No. 3.
He retired in 1982.
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