You're My Favorite Star

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"You're My Favorite Star"
Single by The Bellamy Brothers
B-side "It's Hard to Be a Cowboy These Days" [1]
ReleasedOctober 1981
Genre Country
Length3:24
Label Warner Bros./Curb 49815
Songwriter(s) David Bellamy
Producer(s) Michael Lloyd
The Bellamy Brothers singles chronology
"They Could Put Me in Jail"
(1981)
"You're My Favorite Star"
(1981)
"For All the Wrong Reasons"
(1982)

"You're My Favorite Star" is a song recorded by American country music duo The Bellamy Brothers and written by David Bellamy, one-half of the duo. It was released in October 1981 via Warner Bros. Records and Curb Records, reaching number seven on the Hot Country Songs charts. The single and the one before it, "They Could Put Me in Jail", were never included on a studio album, although this song was later added to the duo's third Greatest Hits album in 1989. [1]

Regarding the song, David said that it was "the first one we'd done with steel drums and a reggae feel." He said that this song led the duo to record other reggae-styled songs on later albums, such as "Get into Reggae Cowboy". [2]

Chart performance

Chart (1981)Peak
position
US Hot Country Songs ( Billboard ) [3] 7
Canadian RPM Country Tracks16

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References

  1. 1 2 Whitburn, Joel (2008). Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008. Record Research, Inc. p. 244. ISBN   978-0-89820-177-2.
  2. Campbell, Mary (1 July 1982). "Bellamys Merge Reggae, Country". The Observer-Reporter. Retrieved 26 April 2011.
  3. "The Bellamy Brothers Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.