{"id":64521,"date":"2017-04-05T11:00:21","date_gmt":"2017-04-05T16:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whisnews21.com\/?p=64521"},"modified":"2017-04-05T11:00:21","modified_gmt":"2017-04-05T16:00:21","slug":"might-be-most-bizarre-no1-country-hit-of-all-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/2017\/04\/05\/might-be-most-bizarre-no1-country-hit-of-all-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Might Be Most Bizarre No1 Country Hit of All Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>This Might Be the Most Bizarre No. 1 Country Hit of All Time<\/strong><\/h2>\n

\u201cTake away their feathers and the birds will walk around in underwear”<\/strong><\/h3>\n

\"\"Ok, so we all know country music evolves. Constantly. But let\u2019s not our music nostalgia get in the way of recognizing we had some\u00a0really<\/em> bizarre tunes even back in the days of Johnny and Merle.<\/p>\n

Like this Jack Blanchard & Misty Morgan song \u201cTennessee Bird Walk.\u201d I mean. Wow. And people get mad at Sam Hunt for talking in his tunes. At least he left the synthesized bird sounds out of it (so far]<\/p>\n

\"\"Jack Blanchard & Misty Morgan married in 1967 and played music together for a few years before landing a record deal. And they must really have a thing for birds. Because they named the album Birds Of A Feather<\/em>. And\u00a0their first song \u201cBig Black Bird (Spirit Of Our Love)\u201d went to the charts first. Then came this gem, \u201cTennessee Bird Walk.\u201d<\/p>\n

They also could have titled this song, What Happens When You Start Messing Around With A Keyboard, Find The Weirdest Sounds It Makes And Then Write A Song Based On Them. \u201cOh sure,\u201d you may say. \u201cThat\u2019s a pretty weird song. But come on, country singers release a funny song every now and then for laughs. There\u2019s no way they took it seriously.\u201d<\/p>\n

[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4-OrVQaqkg0?feature=oembed]<\/div>\n

\"\"But Jack Blanchard & Misty Morgan \u2014 not to mention their label \u2014 took it seriously enough to send to radio. And radio took it seriously enough to send it all the way to No. 1 status. And who did it usurp on the country radio thrown? None other than\u00a0Merle Haggard<\/em>. His tune \u201cFightin\u2019 Side Of Me\u201d just couldn\u2019t put up a big enough fight against a song with lyrics like, \u201cTake away their feathers and the birds will walk around in underwear.\u201d And get this: not only did \u201cTennessee Bird Walk\u201d hit No. 1 on country radio, it crossed over and peaked at No. 23 on pop radio.<\/p>\n

And you might think the tune is really just a novelty song. And that may be so. But if it\u2019s so novel, you better tell Jack & Misty. Because the pair deliver the tune with the same graveness as if they were telling you they had an incurable illness.<\/p>\n

\u00a0– By\u00a0Jeremy\u00a0Burchard\u00a0|\u00a0WideOpenCountry<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This Might Be the Most Bizarre No. 1 Country Hit of All Time \u201cTake away their feathers and the birds will walk around in underwear” Ok, so we all know country music evolves. Constantly. But let\u2019s not our music nostalgia get in the way of recognizing we had some\u00a0really bizarre tunes even back in the days of Johnny and Merle. Like this Jack Blanchard & Misty Morgan song \u201cTennessee Bird Walk.\u201d I mean. Wow. And people get mad at Sam Hunt for talking in his tunes. At least he left<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51433,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64521"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}