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"Amarillo by Morning" is a country music song written by Terry Stafford and Paul Fraser, and recorded in a country pop style by Stafford as a single in 1973 to minor success. [2] The song would be popularized in a fiddle-based Western rendition by Texas neotraditionalist George Strait in 1982.
Amarillo by Morning may refer to: "Amarillo by Morning" (song), a song by Paul Fraser & Terry Stafford, covered by numerous artists, including George Strait and ...
His 1973 release/joint composition "Amarillo by Morning" was covered by George Strait on Strait's 1982 album Strait from the Heart. The song was named "#12 country song of all-time" by Country Music Television. Stafford lived most of his life between Los Angeles and Amarillo, Texas, and he died in Amarillo of liver failure at the age of 54.
Alongside the publication, he shared a preview of the music video for "Amarillo", which shows the singer in yellow and orange clothes and hair. [4] The track premiered on 19 March 2020, the same day he premiered from his fourth studio album Colores. [5] The song served as the fourth single of the album. [2]
Liam Kelly and Nick Kozakis directed the music video, which was released on 24 June 2019, produced by Visible Studios. [12] It follows the character "Mr. Tones" (played by Tones and I), an elderly man who sneaks out of a care home with his friends so they can go to a golf course and have a dance party with other senior citizens.
"Amarillo" is a Latin pop ballad. [2] Lyrically the song discusses love, adoration and admiration with metaphors employing different colors. [3] [4] It was initially rumored that "Amarillo" was written by Shakira for Gerard Piqué, her partner at the time, due to the song's lyrics being applicable and being interpreted as referring to a romantic relationship.
The way their early songs were distributed ushered in a new way of releasing music, In 2004 iTunes had launched in the UK and accounted for 17.9% of that year’s singles chart but by 2005, that number had more than doubled to 36.6%, with the band as a starting point.
On 20 May, "Dance Monkey" reached 1 billion views on YouTube. [46] It won the Grand Prize of the 2019 International Songwriting Competition, which was announced in May 2020. [ 47 ] [ 48 ] Also in the same month the artist appeared on the cover of Rolling Stone (Australia) and was interviewed by its managing editor, Poppy Reid.