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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. Other songs written or co-written by Brock include "I Wanna Fall in Love," a #3 country hit co-written with Mark Spiro for Lila McCann; "You've Got to Stand for Something", which reached #6 on the Billboard country chart); "Haunted Heart", a #9 country hit for Sammy Kershaw; and "I Wonder How Far It Is Over You", a top-40 country hit.
References
- ↑ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 142.
- ↑ "Mark Gray Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.
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