Songoftheday 7/5/22 - The bar was empty I was sweeping up the floor, that's when she walked in...

 

 

"We Danced" - Brad Paisley

from the album Who Needs Pictures (1999)

Billboard Hot 100 peak: #29 (one week)

Weeks in the Top-40: 5

 

Today's song comes from country music artist Brad Paisley, who scored a top-40 crossover hit with the second single from his debut album, the step-dad tribute "He Didn't Have To Be", at the close of 1999. The next release from his debut album Who Needs Pictures was the uptempo comic twang of "Me Neither", which stopped at #18 on Billboard magazine's Country Airplay chart and made it on to the pop Hot 100 at #85.  

For the fourth offering from the set, Brad went back into the ballad bin for the love song "We Danced", which he wrote with Chris DuBois. The song lays out a meet-cute between a bartender and a woman who left something behind at the bar. He offers the lost purse on one condition, the titular payback. It's corny, but it's direct and it's something that could really happen, and Paisley's puppy-dog-like voice would woo anyone when asked to dance. The second verse advances to a proposal, and the circle is complete. Frank Rogers' production is clean and reverent, and it put Brad back in the top of the Nashville scene...

"We Danced" became Paisley's second top-40 crossover hit in America in December of 2000. The song also was his second to top Billboard's Country Airplay chart, where it stayed for two weeks in its eight months on the chart. Internationally the single went to #12 on the Canadian Country Chart right before the country's trade mag RPM shuttered its doors. Brad will be back to the series.

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Here's Brad and his guitar doing "We Danced"...

And lastly, in concert in Denmark after talking about LEGO's...

Up tomorrow: Another country star marks a milestone.