The tip of August 1985 was a sometimes busy time within the profession of the Statler Brothers. The household group from Staunton, Virginia, who had constructed their repute working with Johnny Money for eight years from 1963, had been giants of the standard nation music scene by the mid-80s, with a spectacular 51 entries on the nation bestsellers to their identify already.
That monitor report included three earlier No.1s of their lengthy and fruitful relationship with Mercury Information. The primary of those was in 1978, with “Do You Know You Are My Sunshine,” and as they continued to provide one smash after one other, they hit the highest in March 1984 with “Elizabeth,” and once more precisely 12 months later with “My Only Love.”
The group’s subsequent transfer was the album Pardners In Rhyme, which yielded a canopy of Ricky Nelson’s pop Prime 10 hit of 1961,“Hello Mary Lou,” as its lead single. That gave the Statlers a No.3 nation success, earlier than they arrived on the ballad “Too Much On My Heart.”
The brothers’ good Fortune
The music was written by the group’s Jimmy Fortune, who had changed Lew DeWitt within the Statlers’ line-up in 1983. It was a part of a strong presence by the quartet on the Billboard charts of August 31, 1985. “Too Much On My Heart” posted a 67-55 climb on the nation singles chart, as “Hello Mary Lou” spent its twentieth week on the survey.
In the meantime, they had been on the album survey with no fewer than three titles: the brand new Pardners In Rhyme was at No.9, whereas the previous Atlanta Blue and Right this moment remained within the high 75. The group had been sustaining a excessive media profile, too, guesting on CBS TV’s Nightwatch.
That helped the brand new single proceed its regular climb up Scorching Nation Singles. On November 30, “Too Much On My Heart” accomplished its rise to No.1 to change into the Statler Brothers’ ultimate nation chart-topper.
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