I Hope You Dance (song)

Infobox Single
Name = I Hope You Dance


Artist = Lee Ann Womack
from Album = I Hope You Dance
Released = 2000
Format = Promo-only CD single
7" vinyl single
Recorded =
Genre = Country/Pop
Length = 4:54 (album version)
Label = MCA Nashville
Writer = Mark D. Sanders
Tia Sillers
Producer = Frank Liddell
Mark Wright
Last single = "(Now You See Me) Now You Don't"
(1999)
This single = "I Hope You Dance"
(2000)
Next single = "Ashes by Now"
(2001)
Misc = Extra chronology
Artist = Sons of the Desert
Last single = "Everybody's Gotta Grow up Sometime"
(1999)
This single = "I Hope You Dance"
(2000)
Next single = "What I Did Right"
(2001)

"I Hope You Dance" is a crossover country pop song recorded by country singer Lee Ann Womack along with Sons of the Desert. The song, which was featured on Womack's 2000 album of the same name, reached Number One on both the "Billboard" Hot Country Singles & Tracks and Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks charts, and also reached #14 on the Billboard Hot 100. It is considered to be Womack's signature song, [ [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4196/is_20011210/ai_n10743742 Womack's song of 'Hope' dances its way to success] ] [ [http://www.countrypolitan.com/intro0401.php Countrypolitan.com] ] and it is the only "Billboard" Number One for both Womack and for Sons of the Desert. "I Hope You Dance" also won the 2001 Grammy, CMA, ACM, NSAI, ASCAP and BMI song of the year awards.

Content

"I Hope You Dance" is a mid-tempo ballad in which the narrator, a mother, expresses her wishes to her children, such as:

:"I hope you never lose your sense of wonder:"Get your fill to eat, but always keep that hunger:"May you never take one single breath for granted:"God forbid love ever leave you empty-handed"

Two versions of Womack's recording were released. The original version features Sons of the Desert singing a counterpoint chorus alongside Womack's main chorus, while a second version of the song released for pop radio omits these background vocals. Nonetheless, both Womack and Sons of the Desert received credit on all "Billboard" charts. (Lee Ann Womack is not related to Sons of the Desert lead singer Drew Womack or his brother Tim.) The song was also Sons of the Desert's first Top 40 country hit since "Leaving October" in 1998.

The music video features Lee Ann Womack singing the song to her daughters.

Other versions

*On October 2004, Irish singer Ronan Keating released a cover version which reached #2 on the UK Singles Chart.
*Gladys Knight sang a rendition of the song for the Tyler Perry film "The Family That Preys".

Chart Performance (Lee Ann Womack/Sons of the Desert)

uccession (Lee Ann Womack/Sons of the Desert)

References