My 100 Favorite Charted Country Song: Wish I Was a Little Boy Again

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One of the lowest-peaking songs on the list shows up today, making you wonder how I heard these things. Well, back then radio stations played what the people wanted to hear. What was popular here wasn’t necessarily popular somewhere else. That’s how we had the Bakersfield Sound and regional stars. (That’s how I first heard Jimmy Buffett, too: on a country station in Daytona Beach, playing “The Great Filling Station Hold-Up.” Popular in Florida, not so much in Wisconsin.) So here’s today’s low-charting song from the country charts. Wish I Was a Little Boy Again - LaWanda Lindsey I heard this and said, “That’s me!!!!” I was a tomboy from the word go. I blame my brother. He wanted a little brother, and since he didn’t get one, he made me into the next best thing. I loved sports (still do) and hated dresses (still do). So when a song came along about the joys of being a tomboy, I was on it like hair on a gorilla. Apparently I was the only one. LaWanda Lindsey had a slight problem then: she sounded too much like Lynn Anderson. In fact, Anderson first recorded this as an album cut on her successful Rose Garden album. So when Lindsey released this as a single in 1972 (on the small record label Chart, which was another slight problem), people might have gone in search of a Lynn Anderson 45. This song is about the pitfalls of adulthood that only an old tomboy can understand. Wish I Was a Little Boy Again Written by Glenn Sutton and Darrell Edwards Recorded by LaWanda Lindsey Released as a single, 1972 Peak chart position: #60 Today’s rock song: “You’re a Wonderful One” The world of make-believe all too soon must end: