Songoftheday 1/11/21 - Life was going great love was gonna have to wait, was in no hurry had no worries...

 

 

"Love Gets Me Every Time" - Shania Twain

from the album Come On Over (1997)

Billboard Hot 100 peak: #25 (one week)

Weeks in the Top-40: 7

 

Today's song of the day comes from Canadian pop/country singer Shania Twain, who had broke through in America with the double-sided single "Who's Bed Have Your Boots Been Under" and "Any Man Of Mine" in the spring of 1995. Her second album that those songs from, The Woman In Me, ended up spinning off eight charting singles on Billboard magazine's Country Singles chart. Shania returned in the autumn of 1997 with the first single from her next record, "Love Gets Me Every Time". Written by the singer with her producer husband Robert "Mutt" Lange, the punchy midtempo track pushed the boundaries of "country music" even further, with Mutt's production adding Def Leppard-style background vocals and guitar licks in place, but the prominent fiddles and Shania's easy-going delivery of how she can't help falling all the time firmly puts this back in the Nashville camp. A line-dancing-ready beat driving this, and you have the makings of the start of a true phenomenon...

"Love Gets Me Every Time" became Shania's second top-40 pop hit in October of 1997. The song landed Twain her fifth #1 on Billboard's Country Singles chart as well. The Come On Over album, which was released in November, went to #1 in the US and went on to be one of the biggest selling albums in American history, moving close to 16 million copies. At the Grammy Awards in 1999, Come On Over was nominated for Album Of The Year, losing to Lauryn Hill for her Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill, and for Best Country Album, which the Dixie Chicks took home for Wide Open Spaces.

(8.5/10)

Here's Shania performing "Love Gets Me Every Time" on her Come On Over tour in 1998...

Prior punker hit the big-time going pop with planes.