Decisions made on songs, when recording an album, sometimes work out with a huge hit while other times the song you let get away or turned down becomes a hit. Joe Nichols kept his latest top 20 hit that is fun and joyful about life called ‘Good Day For Living.’
Joe Nichols’ albums have produced multiple Top 40 singles on the Billboard charts, including the Number One singles "Brokenheartsville","Tequila Makes Her Clothes Fall Off", "Gimmie That Girl", and "Sunny and 75." Joe, like many artists, is pitched songs and if they don’t fit current mindset they let it go without putting a hold on it landing big success for other artists sometimes.
“The one I most regret was the Brooks and Dunn song called ‘It’s Getting Better All The Time’,” Joe reveals to Dan Van from Albright & O'Malley & Brenner. “Fantastic song and at the time I had a lot of ballads cut for that record and we were nearing the end of recording and so it was cut this and drop something else or look for tempo and we decided to look for tempo.”
Joe says when he heard Ronnie Dunn sing it he let a hit song get away. Joe also recalls another hit song that he had a chance to record.
“I did pass on ‘Some Beach’ the Blake big five week number one, of course going to sound funny but as a guy who sings a song called ‘Tequila Makes Her Clothes Fall Off’ I thought that song sounded corny.”
Joe knows that when a song becomes a hit with another artist it was meant to be for them saying,“I think songs find their homes. I really desperately wanted to cut ‘People Are Crazy’ the Billy Currington song, unfortunately he heard it first and got the first hold on it, I heard it second, and I was chompin’ at the bit in case he didn’t cut it but he did and had a great big song out of it.”
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