{"id":73408,"date":"2020-07-19T12:06:31","date_gmt":"2020-07-19T12:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whisnews21.com\/?p=73408"},"modified":"2020-08-08T08:47:47","modified_gmt":"2020-08-08T08:47:47","slug":"23-years-ago-george-strait-hits-no-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/2020\/07\/19\/23-years-ago-george-strait-hits-no-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Twenty Three Years Ago George Strait Hits No.1"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"23 Years Ago Today George Strait Hits No1 <\/strong><\/h1>\n

With a song Written by Steve Bogard & Jeff Stevens \u2018Carrying Your Love With Me\u2019<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Twenty-three years ago today (July 19, 1997) was a day of celebration for\u00a0George Strait: On that date, the singer landed in the No. 1 spot with his song “Carrying Your Love With Me.” “Carrying Your Love With Me” is the title track of Strait’s 16th studio album and was also its first single. Written by Steve Bogard and Jeff Stevens, the song stayed at the top of the charts for four consecutive weeks.<\/p>\n

“”Carrying Your Love With Me” is a title Jeff Stevens mentioned to me that we didn\u2019t write until about six months later,\u201d Bogard recalls to\u00a0Taste of Country. \u201cWe pretty much wrote it in a few hours.\u201d<\/p>\n

Strait sang the lyrics of “Carrying Your Love With Me” —\u00a0“I’m carrying your love with me \/ West Virginia down to Tennessee \/ I’ll be movin’ with the good Lord’s speed \/ Carrying your love with me”<\/em>\u00a0— in a music video for the tune. It was the Texan’s first single to have an accompanying video since “Check Yes or No,” which hit No. 1 in 1995, and his last until “Write This Down” in 1999.<\/p>\n

Strait\u00a0liked “Carrying Your Love With Me” so much that he included it on several of his compilation albums, including\u00a0Latest Greatest Straitest Hits<\/em>\u00a0in 2000, 2004’s\u00a050 Number Ones<\/em>\u00a0and 2011’s\u00a0Icon 2<\/em>, and\u00a0frequently performed “Carrying Your Love With Me” during his farewell The Cowboy Rides Away Tour.\u00a0The tune also helped Strait earn both an\u00a0ACM and a CMA for Album of the Year in 1997.<\/p>\n

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