Wrapping up this week’s tour of some of the site’s new features, today I’ll highlight an assortment of new landing pages I’ve created.
Frequent readers might have already noticed teases to the Throwback Weekends page, where I’m gathering all of my weekend posts that highlight top-charting songs from decades past. Craving some 60s pop? 70s rock? From that page, you can choose a decade and dive into the songs that fit your mood.
About a decade ago, I spent a month completing the “30-Day Music Challenge,” picking a song to satisfy a wide range of categories (A song that makes you happy, a song from the year you were born, etc.). I’ve gathered all of those posts on this page. The most fun part of revisiting that series was seeing the commenters’ picks.
Another fun series I’d forgotten about is ‘31 Numbered Songs,’ when I spent March of 2018 posting a song titled after each number between 1 and 30.
After discovering Billboard’s official Song of the Summer charts for the past seven decades, I selected my own ‘Top Ten (Official) Songs of the Summer,’ which I’ve collected here.
And finally (for now), I have gathered all of my ‘What the Kids are Listening To‘ posts into one long list on this page, where you can go to see my take on the songs topping the charts right now.
Currently, the kids seem to be listening to nothing but Ella Langley’s ‘Choosin’ Texas,’ which recently became the longest-running #1 song in history (non-holiday song, anyway, as Mariah Carey’s perennial hit ‘All I Want for Christmas is You‘ holds the overall record).
With another week or two at #1, Langley will top even Mariah’s Christmas classic (at least until December).
This is a great song (and I’m particularly happy for co-writer Miranda Lambert), but I’m not sure how it became such a record-breaking juggernaut.
Just when I thought I got him to fall in love with Tennessee
I shoulda known better than to take him back to Abilene
I put him right back into her arms
I wasn’t a match for that kind of spark
[Chorus]
She’s from Texas, I can tell by the way
He’s two-steppin’ ’round the room
And judgin’ by the smile that’s written on his face
There’s nothin’ I can do
It doesn’t take a crystal ball to see
A cowboy always finds a way to leave
Drinkin’ Jack all by myself
He’s choosin’ Texas, I can tell
[Verse 2]
Well, I guess he forgot about the Smoky Mountain rain
Them old Hank tunes, the Memphis blues we used to sing
He always loved “Amarillo by Morning”
I should’ve taken that as a warnin’
[Chorus]
She’s from Texas, I can tell by the way
He’s two-steppin’ ’round the room
And judgin’ by the smile that’s written on his face
There’s nothin’ I can do
It doesn’t take a crystal ball to see
A cowboy always finds a way to leave
Drinkin’ Jack all by myself
He’s choosin’ Texas, I can tell
[Bridge]
When I’m eastbound and down, and I can’t help but cry
‘Cause I-40 gets lonelier with every mile
I’ll know that his mind wasn’t ever gonna change
‘Cause his heart still belongs to the Lone Star State
[Chorus]
She’s from Texas, I can tell by the way
He’s two-steppin’ ’round the room
And judgin’ by the smile that’s written on his face
There’s nothin’ I can do, naw, yeah
It doesn’t take a crystal ball to see
A cowboy always finds a way to leave
Drinkin’ Jack all by myself
He’s choosin’ Texas, I can tell, no
Drinkin’ Jack all by myself
He’s choosin’ Texas, I can tell
[Outro]
Come on, baby
Oh yeah
Just when I thought I got him to fall in love with Tennessee
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