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"Achy Breaky Heart" is a song written in 1990 by Don Von Tress. First released in 1991 by the Marcy Brothers with the title "Don't Tell My Heart", it was later recorded by American singer and actor Billy Ray Cyrus and released on his debut album, Some Gave All (1992). The song is Cyrus's debut single and signature song.
The first of these was Cyrus's breakthrough song "Achy Breaky Heart", which topped the charts in several countries. In the US it was a five-week number one on the Hot Country Songs chart, as well as a top 5 hit on the Billboard Hot 100. It became the first single ever to achieve triple Platinum status in Australia and was the best-selling ...
The song references Donny & Marie, Barry Manilow, New Kids on the Block, the Village People, Vanilla Ice, the Bee Gees, Debby Boone, ABBA, Slim Whitman, Gheorghe Zamfir, Yoko Ono and Tiffany as artists the narrator would rather listen to than "Achy Breaky Heart." Yankovic had previously recorded parodies of songs by New Kids on the Block and ...
"Achy Breaky Heart" was a platinum-selling, global No. 1 hit. Notably, it's a debut single that spent as much time on top of Billboard's Country charts as two other debuts: "Skip a Rope" by Henson ...
Guess you didn't mean what you wrote in that song about me, because you said forever now I drive alone past your street.” —Olivia Rodrigo, "Driver’s License" 2. “So, I made you think that ...
The song reached number 2 on the U.S. Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart, and it also reached number 1 on the Canadian RPM Country Tracks chart. It was the follow-up to the number 1 song, "Achy Breaky Heart".
Song of the Year "Achy Breaky Heart" - Billy Ray Cyrus "I Feel Lucky" - Mary Chapin Carpenter "Look at Us" - Vince Gill "Love, Me" - Collin Raye "Maybe It Was Memphis" - Pam Tillis "Look at Us" - Vince Gill and Max D. Barnes "Achy Breaky Heart" - Don Von Tress "Don't Rock The Jukebox" - Alan Jackson, Keith Stegall, and Roger Murrah
During the early-to-middle part of the decade, several recordings were influenced by the popularity of line dancing, including "Boot-Scootin' Boogie" by Brooks & Dunn and "Achy Breaky Heart" by Billy Ray Cyrus. This influence was so great that Chet Atkins was quoted as saying "The music has gotten pretty bad, I think. It's all that damn line ...