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Post by Drew on Aug 20, 2020 12:02:58 GMT -5
Heard this song the other day on a 00's country station and it got me thinking.......
This song is so catchy! I remember rocking out to this in my high-school days.
It's so weird that this became a hit for many reasons. For one, it was released at a time when most of country music was not pop friendly (except for Faith Hill, Shania Twain, and a few others). The song is also about a guy fantasizing about his neighbor/friend Steven Rudy's wife, a topic that was largely considered taboo on country radio at the time. Also, Mark McGuinn looks nothing a country star; he has more of a beatnik/hipster image, than a country singer. He looks like that weird guy you'd see working at one of those hippy vegan cafes or gourmet coffee shops (no offense to vegans and coffee snobs!).
The song became a hit after a radio station in Texas played it and people loved it. From there, word spread, and radio stations were inundated with requests to play it. After that, the rest was history and the song became a hit and peaked at #6 in 2001. Mrs. Steven Rudy is a rare example of one of the few independent releases that did not have the benefit of a record and promotional label backing it and became popular solely on the likes of fans and listeners.
Mark McGuinn did release several singles after this, but none reached the level of success that Mrs. Steven Rudy had. He had no other top ten hits, but stayed involved in the music industry, and wrote several other hit songs for the likes of Lonestar and George Jones.
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Post by kamij91 on Aug 20, 2020 12:10:22 GMT -5
OMG talk about a blast from the past! This is catchy as hell! Creepy as hell too LOL! It's almost as bad a Garth Brooks' That Summer when a boy loses his virginity to an old widow or Stacy's Mom by Fountains of Wayne when a boy wants to get with his girlfriend's mom. Gross! Sometimes I wonder WTF we listened to as kids. Then there's the $h|t hip hop that the kids like nowadays.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 20, 2020 13:51:42 GMT -5
Ahhhh I remember this song! Never a favorite, but I liked it well.
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