- Golden Tears
Infobox Single
Name = Golden Tears
Artist =Dave & Sugar
from Album = Stay With Me/Golden Tears
A-side =
B-side =
Released = January1979
Format = 7"
Recorded =1978
Genre = Country
Length = 2:28
Label =RCA Records
11427
Writer = John Schweers
Producer = Jerry Bradley and Dave Rowland
Chart position =
Last single = "Tear Time"
(1978)
This single = "Golden Tears "
(1979)
Next single = "Stay With Me"
(1979)"Golden Tears" is a song made famous by the
country music trioDave & Sugar . The song was released in 1979 and became the group's third and final No. 1 hit on the "Billboard magazine " Hot Country Singles chart.Background
Country music journalist Tom Roland called "Golden Tears" a "highly coindental release." Dave & Sugar frontman Dave Rowland, it seemed, had driven
Chevrolet s for most of his life, including the early period of Dave & Sugar's national success. However, Rowland had just purchased a new Lincoln when he heard the demo tape for the song. The song's first line in the refrain: "From a Chevy to a Lincoln ... ." ["The Billboard Book of Number One Country Hits" (Billboard Books, Watson-Guptill Publications, New York, 1991 (ISBN 0-82-307553-2)), p. 228-229.]The song is about a woman who marries a rich man for his money, but quickly realizes that money does not necessarily buy happiness. In one sense, it is also about life in the fast lane and, as Roland put it, "supported the adage, 'it's lonely at the top.'" [ibid.]
Of Dave & Sugar's three No. 1 songs, "Golden Tears" was the only multi-week chart-topper, spending three weeks at No. 1 in March. The trio enjoyed several more top 10 singles thereafter before beginning to fade in popularity during the early 1980s.
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References
*Whitburn, Joel, "Top Country Songs: 1944-2005," 2006.
* [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=&sql=33:aifpxxqkldhe All Music Guide — "Golden Tears" by Dave & Sugar] .
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