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"Heads Carolina, Tails California" is a song written by Tim Nichols and Mark D. Sanders and recorded by American country music artist Jo Dee Messina. The song was released in January 1996 as her debut single and served as the lead-off single for her self-titled debut album. The song reached the Top 10 on both the U.S. and Canadian country charts.
The accompanying music video was released on August 11, 2022. Directed by Spidey Smith, it features Swindell performing on stage at a bar, while one of his friends tries to capture the attention of the girl singing "Heads Carolina, Tails California".
"Carolina" is a song recorded by American country music group Parmalee. It was first released on their 2008 EP titled Complicated before being remixed and re-released on February 4, 2013, as their second single for Stoney Creek Records. [1] It is included on their album Feels Like Carolina, which was released on December 10, 2013. [2]
The album's first two singles ("Heads Carolina, Tails California" and "You're Not in Kansas Anymore") both reached the Top 10 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) charts in 1996, while follow-ups "Do You Want to Make Something of It" and "He'd Never Seen Julie Cry" both failed to enter the Top 40.
The song "She Had Me at Heads Carolina" is a reference to Jo Dee Messina's 1996 debut single "Heads Carolina, Tails California" which changes that song's perspective. Swindell contacted Tim Nichols and Mark D. Sanders, the writers of "Heads Carolina, Tails California", for permission to include elements of that song. According to Swindell, "it ...
Harlan Perry Howard (September 8, 1927 – March 3, 2002) was an American songwriter, principally in country music. In a career spanning six decades, Howard is credited with writing more than 4,000 songs, over 100 of which reached country music's Top 10. [1]
The music video for "Crosseyed and Painless", lasting 5:37, was directed by Toni Basil and by their own request did not feature the members of the band. Instead it featured street dancers (including Stephen "Skeeter Rabbit" Nichols), [ 6 ] chosen by David Byrne, and who were said to have chosen their own choreography for the video. [ 7 ]
"Carolina" has been described as an Americana [12] and Appalachian folk song, [13] with country folk [14] and bluegrass elements, [15] on minor chords. [16] It was recorded in one take and only features instruments available before 1953—around the time when Where the Crawdads Sing takes place—acoustic instruments [ 17 ] such as mandolin ...