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"Amarillo by Morning" is widely considered to be one of Strait's best songs. Billboard and American Songwriter ranked the song number nine and number six, respectively, on their lists of the 10 greatest George Strait songs. [17] [18] In 2024, Rolling Stone ranked the song at number ten on its 200 Greatest Country Songs of All Time ranking. [19]
His 1973 release/joint composition "Amarillo by Morning" was covered by George Strait on Strait's 1982 album Strait from the Heart. The song was named "#12 country song of all-time" by Country Music Television. Stafford lived most of his life between Los Angeles and Amarillo, Texas, and he died in Amarillo of liver failure at the age of 54.
Amarillo by Morning may refer to: "Amarillo by Morning" (song) , a song by Paul Fraser & Terry Stafford, covered by numerous artists, including George Strait and Asleep at the Wheel Amarillo by Morning (film) , a documentary film by Spike Jonze
"Is This the Way to) Amarillo" is a song written by Neil Sedaka and Howard Greenfield. It is about a man traveling to Amarillo, Texas, to find his girlfriend Marie.. Written by two Americans with a strong country-western lyrical theme, the song was first released in Europe, where it has become much more popular than in the composers' native country, with a big-band/orchestral pop arrangement ...
An original demo of the song was included on the 2010 compilation The Original Songwriter Demos Volumes 1 & 2. [3] Strait was particularly fond of the song upon his first listen. "That was one of the songs though that I knew, right away when I first heard it, I wanted to cut it," he remarked to CMT, adding that his toddler son was a big fan.
The song "Auld Lang Syne" comes from a Robert Burns poem. Burns was the national poet of Scotland and wrote the poem in 1788, but it wasn't published until 1799—three years after his death.
Contemporary Country is a 22-volume series issued by Time-Life during the early 1990s, spotlighting country music of the 1970s through mid 1990s. Each volume in the series chronicled a specific time period – the early-1970s, the mid-1970s, the late-1970s, the early-1980s, the mid-1980s, the late-1980s, the early-1990s and the mid-1990s.
An expected almost 10,000 people came out Friday evening for an Independence Day +1 celebration at John Stiff Park in Amarillo, which featured live music, fireworks and a drone show.