By the center of the Nineteen Seventies, the Statler Brothers had been already a decade into some of the spectacular nation chart careers of the period. After making that countdown for the primary time with the most important hit “Flowers On The Wall” in 1965, that they had racked up two dozen appearances — together with 4 extra Prime 10 singles — after they entered the chart as soon as once more on October 2, 1976 with “Thank God I’ve Got You.”
Harold, Lew, Phil, and Don, proud sons of Staunton, Virginia, put all of their harmonizing prowess into this conventional story of a person who’s completely satisfied in love, regardless of the entire proverbial woes of many a rustic track. In group member Don Reid’s lyric, the narrator has payments to pay, job frustrations, a automotive within the store, and a child with a damaged arm, however he’s rising above all of it with the love of a very good girl. Money Field mentioned its “strong lyric, excellent production [by Jerry Kennedy] and surefire harmonizing total the sound of another top charter for the Statlers.”
A brand new sizzling streak
The track entered Billboard’s Sizzling Nation Singles survey at No.68. It was the best of 12 new entries that additionally included new releases by Mel Tillis and David Frizzell and main girls of the day similar to Margo Smith and Jeanne Pruett. “Thank God…” climbed at radio, too, as a most-added observe throughout October together with new releases similar to Mary Kay Place’s “Baby Boy” and Tom T. Corridor’s “Fox On The Run.” The Statlers single went on to make No.10, beginning a brand new sizzling streak for the quartet, as the primary of three prime tenners in a row from their subsequent album.
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“Thank God I’ve Got You” and the Statlers’ subsequent two hits, “The Movies” and “I Was There,” all got here from the LP The Nation America Loves. When that arrived in February 1977, it too made No.10 on the nation chart. The Statler Brothers had been knee-deep in Prime 10 appearances, and on the singles countdown, they might proceed for an additional 13 years, till “More Than A Name On A Wall” turned their final prime tenner in 1989.
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