Try That In A Small Town

 

Jason Aldean Tops the Current Top 20, Country 5 + 5, Billboard's Hot 100 and More

Jason Aldean tops Mel's Current Top 20 with his high profile hit, "Try That in a Small Town." The track has been the #1 best seller on iTunes for the past few weeks, and topped the Billboard Hot 100 onTuesday for the week of August 1. I would be thrilled to see if "Try That in a Small Town" can hold on to #1 for a few more weeks, especially on the Hot 100 chart.

Here are this week's Current Top 20 hits as posted on August 4, 2023.

TW	Title	Artist	LW
1	Try That In A Small Town	Jason Aldean	3
2	When I Die	Fanny Lumsden	1
3	I Can See You (Taylor's Version)	Taylor Swift	5
4	Vampire	Olivia Rodrigo	4
5	Heavenly Kind of State of Mind	Lewis Capaldi	2
6	Need A Favor	Jelly Roll	7
7	Fast Car	Luke Combs	8
8	Curtains	Ed Sheeran	6
9	Loving You	Cannons	10
10	Island in the Sun (feat. American Authors)	Smallpools	11
11	American Flags (with Adam Calhoun)	Tom MacDonald	19
12	Save Me (with Lainey Wilson)	Jelly Roll	9
13	Silver Fish	Dengue Fever	15
14	A Beautiful Game	Ed Sheeran	14
15	I Won't Back Down	Goo Goo Dolls & O.A.R.	16
16	Resolution/Revolution	The Linda Lindas	new
17	Save Me The Trouble	Dan + Shay	20
18	Until I Found You (Em Beihold Version)	Stephen Sanchez & Em Beihold	12
19	Karma / Karma (featuring Ice Spice)	Taylor Swift	13
20	Barbie Girl (Tiësto Remix)	Aqua + Tiësto	new

Jason Aldean and his #1 hit video.

The Country 5 + 5

As of August 1, 2023.

TW	Tit          le	Artist	LR
1	Try That In A Small Town	Jason Aldean	2
2	Need A Favor	Jelly Roll	3
3	When I Die	Fanny Lumsden	1
4	Save Me The Trouble	Dan + Shay	6
5	On The Boat Again	Jake Owen	5
6	Save Me (featuring Lainey Wilson)	Jelly Roll	4
7	Fast Car	Luke Combs	7
8	Bury Me In Georgia	Kane Brown	9
9	Good Lookin'	Dixon Dallas	8
10	World on Fire	Nate Smith	new

Listen to the Current Top 20 on Spotify.

Awaiting: New Dawn by Fanny Lumsden from Bandcamp.

Also waiting from Bandcamp: Reissue of The Connells' 1993 album Ring with bonus tracks.

Listen to the Country 5 + 5 on Spotify.

Top 10 Albums That Made an Impact:Arthur Lyman "Yellow Bird"

The CD booklet from Arthur Lyman's "Yellow Bird" album.

DAY #1: Your Top 10 Favorite Albums that had a big impact on you. This is the first of a series of posts that were originally made after being challenged to create such a meme on Facebook by a friend in 2018. This is the updated rewrite of the series with a link back to the original post.

Arthur Lyman - Yellow Bird - Originally posted to Facebook May 11, 2018.

I have compiled Top 10 lists of various records over the years, but on this series, the focus will be on those records that "had a big impact on you".

To start, I go way back to my childhood from 1961 or 1962. My parents bought the Arthur Lyman record, "Yellow Bird".

If you like instrumental music with a tropical flair, Yellow Bird is the album to get. Throughout, Arthur Lyman and his band treat listeners to an array of tropical flavored arrangements utilizing xylophone, marimbas and other percussion instruments plus bird calls for added flavor.

My favorite tracks are "Havah Nagilah", "Bamboo Tamboo", "Adventures in Paradise" (which was the theme music for some 1960s era TV show), and of course "Yellow Bird" which was a top ten hit in 1961 reaching the #4 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

The original vinyl LP we had in our family over the years was played so many times that it badly wore out to the point that it was no longer playable. Years later while browsing Amazon, I purchased the CD reissue on Rykodisc. I think the CD is now out of print, though some of the songs have appeared on compilation albums over the years.

One thing I would like to get is a vinyl copy as released to HiFi Records in good to mint condition. It would be cool to listen to this on vinyl again.

Yellow Bird is highly recommended if you love lounge music and instrumental, tropical exotica.

Listen to Yellow Bird (from YouTube):

Listen to Havah Nagilah (from YouTube):

Flashback Friday: Singer Joey Heatherton "Gone"

FLASHBACK FRIDAY on Mel's Internet Universe Weblog

Any kid who grew up in the 1970s who watched TV most certainly caught those "Perfect Sleeper" commercials for Serta by actress and singer Joey Heatherton. She was a blonde bombshell who probably sold many beds for Serta singing about the "Perfect Sleeper".... She was hot, blonde and always dressed for a good night's sleep.

In 1972 she had a hit single with the Ferlin Husky penned tune called "Gone". The record hit the Billboard Hot 100 on MGM Records and peaked at #24. I bought the record and the B-side was the track "The Road I Took to You (Pieces)" which is featured in the video below. Ms. Heatherton also released an album that featured the tracks, but the disc did not sell very well.

She has since been relegated to chart history as a "one hit wonder".





Here is one of the "Perfect Sleeper" commercials she did for SERTA.