Tar Top
"Tar Top" | ||||
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Single by Alabama | ||||
from the album Just Us | ||||
B-side | "If I Could Just See You Now" | |||
Released | August 3, 1987 | |||
Genre | Country | |||
Length | 4:55 | |||
Label | RCA Nashville | |||
Songwriter(s) | Randy Owen | |||
Producer(s) | Alabama Harold Shedd | |||
Alabama singles chronology | ||||
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"Tar Top" is a song written by Randy Owen, and recorded by American country music group Alabama. It was released in August 1987 as the first single from their album Just Us. The song reached number 7 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart in October 1987, making it their first commercial single not to reach number 1 since 1980's "My Home's in Alabama".[1]
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The song references musical groups that Owen and his bandmates played in prior to the foundation of Alabama, and its title is a reference to a nickname that Owen had in the pre-Alabama days. Owen said that he wrote it a few years prior to the album's release, at a point when he "was making some personal assessments on what [he] could do and what [he] couldn`t do physically and mentally".[2]
Chart performance
Chart (1987) | Peak position |
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US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)[3] | 7 |
Canadian RPM Country Tracks | 4 |
References
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- "I Wanna Come Over"
- "My Home's in Alabama"
- "Tennessee River"
- "Why Lady Why"
- "Old Flame"
- "Feels So Right"
- "Love in the First Degree"
- "Mountain Music"
- "Take Me Down"
- "Close Enough to Perfect"
- "Dixieland Delight"
- "The Closer You Get"
- "Lady Down on Love"
- "Roll On (Eighteen Wheeler)"
- "When We Make Love"
- "If You're Gonna Play in Texas (You Gotta Have a Fiddle in the Band)"
- "(There's A) Fire in the Night"
- "There's No Way"
- "40 Hour Week (For a Livin')"
- "Can't Keep a Good Man Down"
- "Tar Top"
- "Face to Face"
- "Fallin' Again"
- "Song of the South"
- "If I Had You"
- "High Cotton"
- "Southern Star"
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