While they were recording the demo for “The Chair,” Royce, Cochran and Dillon had the idea for another Strait hit, “Ocean Front Property.”
Ultimately, he loved it because the lyric shows just how nervous the narrator is to approach the woman that he stumbles over his words. Tagged: Country The 1980s The 1990s The 2000s Groups from the United States suggest A Fire I Can't Put Out. McCreery told Everything Nash the story behind the song: 'I was writing songs left and right, we had the songs put on there, but for me, when I heard a song 'Damn Strait,' I immediately raised my hand and said, 'Me, me, me.' It's such a cool song. Cochran went outside to grab a beer and brainstorm a little more.Īfter 15 minutes, he came back and suggested the lyrics, “ Well, thank you, can I drink you a buy? Aw, listen to me, what I mean is, can I buy you a drink? Anything you please.”ĭillion’s initial thought was, “ Man, that is either the craziest damn thing I ever heard of in my life, or this guy’s brilliant.” 'Damn Strait' is a tribute to country music singer George Strait. They knew right away they wanted it to be a conversation song with no chorus, just repeating melody. The two wrote the first half of the first verse extremely fast. And I don’t know what happened, but then Hank sat down in a chair across from me, and I looked at him, picked up the guitar, struck a G chord, and started singing, ‘Well, excuse me, but I think you’ve got my chair.’ And he said, ‘Have you written that song?’ I said, ‘No.’ And he said, ‘Well, we’re about to.’ And 45 minutes later, we’d written ‘The Chair’.” It was a number-one hit in the United States, while it peaked at number 3 in Canada. It was released in April 1988 as the second single from his album If You Ain't Lovin' You Ain't Livin'. “I was tired though, and it was four in the morning again, like it always seemed to be for me and Hank. 'Baby Blue' is a song written by Aaron Barker, and recorded by American country music artist George Strait. “By about four in the morning, I had drunk so much whiskey that I had actually drunk myself sober I didn’t know you could do that, but I did it,” Dillon told Texas Monthly. Porter flew back to Nashville, but Dillon and Cochran were celebrating their two songs, knowing they were going to be huge hits.