It was a traditional nation opening line. “Well excuse me, but I think you’ve got my chair…” That’s how George Strait begins the dialog with the stranger who walks into the bar, in his memorable nation hit “The Chair.”
Twenty minutes after beginning to devise it on the finish of an all-night writing session, Hank Cochran and Dean Dillon had a tune. Lower than three minutes after singing that introduction, Strait has a brand new love, and he’s already admitting to her: “Oh I like you too, and to tell you the truth…that wasn’t my chair after all.”
On December 21, 1985, this charming MCA single, an actual sleeper hit, accomplished a three-month climb from its chart entry, at No.65, to the highest of the US nation countdown. It was backed on the B-side by “In Too Deep,” and after two earlier 45s that 12 months which had each peaked at No.5 (“The Cowboy Rides Away” and “The Fireman”), it restored Strait to the summit, for his seventh No.1.
One other five-month keep
Earlier than that, he’d notched 5 chart-toppers in a row, together with “A Fire I Can’t Put Out” and “Does Fort Worth Ever Cross Your Mind.” Like most of Strait’s singles, “The Chair” was on the bestsellers for 5 months, on this case notching no fewer than 22 weeks on the Billboard survey.
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“The Chair” was the lead observe from George’s fifth studio album One thing Particular, launched within the late summer season of 1985 and of additional historic curiosity as MCA’s first to seem on each vinyl album and CD. As the only spent its one week on the prime, the album was nudged off its No.1 perch by Gary Morris’ Something Goes. However by February 1986, One thing Particular was gold, and ten years later it turned platinum.
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