1983 Songs: Amarillo By Morning

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Welcome to June! I remember once upon a time that Boomerang had a “June Bugs” month, where they showed every Bugs Bunny cartoon. That’s cool! But that’s not what you’re getting from me. No, you’re stuck with music, and in this case a trip back forty years. Can you believe some of these songs are 40 now? Let’s get rolling! Amarillo By Morning - George Strait Hey, why should only the rock fans feel old by looking at this list? It’s King George! Back then, he was just taking off. I mean, I saw him in 1985 in a pretty small arena, nothing like the football stadium he played here later in his career. (The late, lamented Louisville Gardens, where I also saw George Jones, R.E.M. (not together ), rasslin’ as a kid, and got to feed my schoolgirl crush for Louie Dampier when he played guard with the Kentucky Colonels in the old ABA.) This is on my 100 favorites list. It was co-written by Terry Stafford, who was best known for his 1964 hit “Suspicion” (we’ll get to that next year in the 60-year-old music ). He had a hand in TWO of my 100 favorites country hits: this one, and Buck Owens’ ballad “Big in Vegas.” And, of course, now George Strait is a true legend. He was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2006 (and, in some completely worthless trivia, he’s the fourth and most recent George inducted, after George D. Hay, George Jones, and George Morgan). This song, although 40 now (actually, older than that, because Stafford recorded it himself in the early 70s), stands as one of Strait’s great classics. Amarillo By Morning Written by Terry Stafford and Paul Fraser Recorded by George Strait From Strait From the Heart, 1983 Lost my wife and a girlfriend: