| “Dixieland Delight” | |||||
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| Single by Alabama from the album The Closer You Get... | |||||
| A-side | "Dixieland Delight" | ||||
| B-side | "Very Special Love" | ||||
| Released | January 28, 1983 (U.S.) | ||||
| Format | 7" | ||||
| Recorded | 1982 | ||||
| Genre | Country | ||||
| Length | 3:57 (single edit) 5:23 (album version) | ||||
| Label | RCA Records 13446 | ||||
| Writer(s) | Ronnie Rogers | ||||
| Producer | Harold Shedd and Alabama | ||||
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About the song
The song's title refers to the girlfriend of the singer.
Songwriter Ronnie Rogers, who previously had hits with Ed Bruce, Dave Dudley, Tanya Tucker and others, recalled to country music journalist Tom Roland that the idea for "Dixieland Delight" came to him when he was driving down a Tennessee road in his Jeep CJ-5. The Jeep CJ (or Civilian Jeep) was a commercial version of the famous Military Jeep from World War II. [1] The song's first line ("Rollin' down a backwoods, Tennessee byway; one arm on the wheel") soon led into an image of the main character's other arm wrapped around his girlfriend and - with a long, hard work week at an end - envisioning a weekend of fun and relaxation with her.
Later in the song, Rogers conjers up images of various forest animals (e. g, a white-tailed buck and a red-tailed hawk) and how they bring peace to him, before returning to how the main character plans to become intimate with his girlfriend ("Home-grown country girl, gonna give me a whirl") during their weekend outing.
When Alabama recorded the song in 1982 for The Closer You Get, it differed substantially from the acoustic demo cut by Rogers. [2] The finished product was a twin-tempoed song, with a 3/4-time beat used for the first half of the song (the two verses and refrain).
The song picks up the tempo somewhat with a fiddle bridge before a reprisal of the refrain. The tempo speeds up once again for the second fiddle bridge and fade out (a reprisal of the first verse).
A music video was filmed for the song, and has aired on CMT and Great American Country. Country Music Television, or CMT as it is usually called is an American Country music -oriented Cable television network "GAC" redirects here For other uses of this three-letter abbreviation see Gac (disambiguation.
Single and album edits
The original album version was edited by nearly 1 1/2 minutes for release as a single. The differences include:
- A shorter introduction (about half of the intro is excised). In Music, the introduction is a passage or section which opens a movement or a separate piece.
- Shorter fiddle bridges; the second one almost immediately goes into the final reprisal. Also, a slower guitar riff is edited out before the tempo picks up for the segue leading into the first fiddle bridge.
- An earlier fade out (not quite halfway through the first verse reprisal).
The single edit is included in several of Alabama's greatest hits collections, including For the Record. For the Record is a two-disc 44-track Greatest hits package released by the American Country music band Alabama. The full-length album version is included on the band's second greatest hits album. Greatest Hits Vol II is the second Greatest hits package released by the American Country music band Alabama.
Chart performance
Released in January 1983, "Dixieland Delight" became Alabama's ninth No. 1 song on Billboard magazine's Hot Country Singles chart. See Billboard (Turkish magazine Billboard is a weekly American Magazine devoted to the Music industry Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States
To date, "Dixieland Delight" remains one of the group's most popular songs.
Sources
References
See also
- Morris, Edward, "Alabama," Contemporary Books Inc. , Chicago, 1985 (ISBN 0809253062)
- Whitburn, Joel, "Top Country Songs: 1944-2005," 2006.
| Preceded by "We've Got Tonight" by Kenny Rogers and Sheena Easton | Billboard Hot Country Singles number one single by Alabama April 16, 1983 | Succeeded by "American Made" by The Oak Ridge Boys |
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