Buddy Brock

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Buddy Brock is an American country music songwriter. His biggest hits to date are "Watermelon Crawl," co-written with Zack Turner, which reached the #4 spot on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart and made the Billboard Hot 100 as a dance remix; and the 1992 song "There Ain't Nothin' Wrong with the Radio," co-written and performed by Aaron Tippin, which held the number 1 position on the country chart for three consecutive weeks in April and May, 1992. [1] [2] [3] Other songs written or co-written by Brock include "I Wanna Fall in Love," a #3 country hit [4] co-written with Mark Spiro for Lila McCann; "You've Got to Stand for Something" (co-written with and sung by Tippin), which reached #6 on the Billboard country chart); [5] "Haunted Heart" (co-written with Kim Williams), a #9 country hit for Sammy Kershaw; [6] and "I Wonder How Far It Is Over You" (co-written with and sung by Tippin), a top-40 country hit. [7]

Notes

  1. "Hot Country Songs chart for April 18, 1992". Billboard. Retrieved October 3, 2010.
  2. "Hot Country Songs chart for April 25, 1992". Billboard. Retrieved October 3, 2010.
  3. "Hot Country Songs chart for May 2, 1992". Billboard. Retrieved October 3, 2010.
  4. Lila McCann Chart History
  5. "Best of 1991: Country Songs". Billboard . Prometheus Global Media. 1991. Retrieved August 16, 2013.
  6. Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 189.
  7. Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 349.


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