Atlanta Burned Again Last Night

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"Atlanta Burned Again Last Night"
Single by Atlanta
from the album Pictures
B-side "Tumbling Tumbleweeds"
ReleasedMay 1983
Genre Country
Length2:59
Label MDJ
Songwriter(s) Jeff Stevens, Terry Dotson, Dwaine Rowe
Producer(s) Mylan Bodgen, Larry McBride
Atlanta singles chronology
"Atlanta Burned Again Last Night"
(1983)
"Dixie Dreaming"
(1983)

"Atlanta Burned Again Last Night" is a song recorded by American country music group Atlanta. It was released in May 1983 as their debut single and the first from their debut album Pictures . The song reached No. 9 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles chart [1] It was written by Jeff Stevens, Terry Dotson and Dwaine Rowe. Released through Larry McBride's MDJ label, it was one of the highest-charting debut singles by an independently signed country act. [2]

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Content

The song narrates a teenaged boy's sexual initiation by a married woman. Here, a 17-year-old boy (depicted as "dating a high school queen") meets and begins a relationship with a woman who is "over 30," in her second marriage and having a son that was nearly as old as her teenaged partner. The lyrics focused on the intimacy shared between the two, and the satisfaction each of them takes from the encounter ("He made her feel needed/And she made him a man").

Chart performance

Chart (1983)Peak
position
US Hot Country Songs ( Billboard ) [3] 9

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  1. "Atlanta Album & Song Chart History – Country Songs". Billboard . Prometheus Global Media . Retrieved June 11, 2011.
  2. "Atlanta is big – real big". Bowling Green Daily News. August 18, 1983. p. 14C. Retrieved February 22, 2010.
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