Songoftheday 10/13/21 -I never saw the end in sight fools are kind of blind, thought everything was going alright but I was running out of time...
"Write This Down" - George Strait
from the album Always Never The Same (1999)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #27 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 11
Today's song comes from George Strait, who after two decades of recording one of the most successful and memorable string of hits in country music (as of 2017 he was the 3rd biggest of all time), finally landed a crossover hit on Billboard magazine's Hot 100 chart in the beginning of 1999 with the gentle love waltz "Meanwhile". His next single from his nineteenth studio album Always Never The Same was more upbeat and jovial in production, but sadder in lyrical material. "Write This Down", written by Dana Hunt and Kent Robbins, has George assuming the persona of a guy whose woman is about to leave him, asking her to take some dictation on how he feels about her. It's silly for sure, but damn does George have a way to be totally charming about it. For such well-worm material, it's certain fun to listen and dance to...
"Write This Down" became Strait's second straight top-40 hit on the Hot 100 in June of 1999. The song spent a whole month (four weeks) at #1 on Billboard's Country Singles chart as well. Internationally, the single also topped the Canadian Country Singles chart.
A third single from Always Never The Same, the easy-listening ditty "What Do You Say To That", climbed to #4 on the Country Singles list, while peaking just under the Hot 100 Top-40 at #45. Besides that song, four other cuts from the album had enough radio airplay to make the Country Singles chart: "Always Never The Same" (#69), "One Of You" (#73), "Peace Of Mind" (#74), and "I Look At You" (#75), proving that Nashville provided "album bombs" way before Drake and Taylor Swift came along. George will be back to this series many more times.
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Up tomorrow: Country tenor has a couple cries.
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