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(Donny R Lowery/Mac McAnally)

The song was written by Donny R. Lowery and Mac McAnally when Alabama were still relatively unknown and playing in a steakhouse in Muscles Shoals.  Mac McAnally said the chorus of the song came to him during a plane flight.  It was Donny Lowery’s first recorded single and it reached No.1 in the US Charts in April 1981.

Alabama recordings
RCA PB-12169-A (US 45)

Source:

  1. www.post-gazette.com/magazine/19990615people7.asp