She and I

Infobox Single
Name = She and I


Artist = Alabama
from Album = Greatest Hits
Released = January 1986 (U.S.)
Format = 7"
Recorded = December 1985
Genre = Country
Length = 3:36 (single edit)
5:18 (album version)
Label = RCA Records 14281
Writer = Dave Loggins
Producer = Harold Shedd and Alabama
Chart position =

• #1 (Billboard Hot Country Singles)
  Last single = "Can't Keep a Good Man Down"
  (1985)
  This single = "She and I"
  (1986)
  Next single = "Touch Me When We're Dancing"
  (1986)
  Misc = External music video|" [http://www.cmt.com/videos/alabama/58987/she-and-i.jhtml She and I] " at CMT.com

  "She and I" is a song made famous by the country music band Alabama. Originally released in 1986, the song — an uptempo, rock-tinged song professing marital lust — was one of two new tracks on Alabama's first greatest hits album.

  The song became their 19th consecutive No. 1 song on the "Billboard magazine" Hot Country Singles chart in April 1986.

  Country music writer Tom Roland noted that the song "featured a barrage of unique sounds," including a "strange drum effect" (the echo for each drumbeat would end with a pop, instead of "decaying"). Also, the album version of the song featured a false ending (much like Elvis Presley's "Suspicious Minds"), whereby the song fades out before returning to full volume and then finally fading.

  A music video was filmed for the song, and has aired on CMT, TNN, and Great American Country.

  ingle and album edits

  The version of "She and I" released for radio airplay and retail sale as a 7-inch single is nearly two minutes shorter than the full-length album version. Among other noticeable differences, the single version's end is abridged and does not include the false fade.

  References

  *Millard, Bob, "Country Music: 70 Years of America's Favorite Music," HarperCollins, New York, 1993 (ISBN 0-06-273244-7)
  *Roland, Tom, "The Billboard Book of Number One Country Hits," Billboard Books, Watson-Guptill Publications, New York, 1991 (ISBN 0-82-307553-2)
  *Whitburn, Joel, "Top Country Songs: 1944-2005," 2006.