Soul Song

Infobox Single
Name = Soul Song


Artist = Joe Stampley
from Album = Soul Song
Released = October 1972 (U.S.)
Format = 7"
Recorded = 1972
Genre = Country
Length = 2:25
Label = Dot Records
Writer = George Richey, Billy Sherrill and Norro Wilson
Producer = Norro Wilson
Chart position =

• #1 (Billboard Hot Country Singles)
• #37 (Billboard Hot 100)

Last single = "If You Touch Me (You've Got to Feel Me)"
(1972)
This single = "Soul Song"
(1972)
Next single = "Bring It On Home to Your Woman"
(1973)“Soul Song” is a song made famous by country music singer Joe Stampley. Originally released in 1972, the song became his first No. 1 song and was the title track to Stampley’s album, released in early 1973.

The song also represented a first for co-writer Norro Wilson: a No. 1 hit as a producer. Wilson had previously written several songs that topped "Billboard magazine"’s Hot Country Singles chart—notably, David Houston’s “Baby, Baby (I Know You’re a Lady),” and Tammy Wynette’s “He Loves Me All the Way” and “My Man (Understands).” During the next three decades, Wilson would produce numerous No. 1 hits (including two more by Stampley), including Margo Smith, Charley Pride, Janie Fricke, Chely Wright, Kenny Chesney and Reba McEntire.

Prior to Stampley's hit version, Tanya Tucker recorded "Soul Song."

ources

* [http://www.allmusicguide.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=33:hnfwxxraldae All Music Guide — "Soul Song"]
*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.