that and the blender...
All of a sudden George says to Kenny "take a listen to this song see what you think",
....every body wants to go to heaven.,nobody wants to go now.,
Kenny's like "that's a cool song, I like it". Next thing you know he tells his people he intends to release that song as a single on his next CD.
BUT Kenny didn't go thru the proper channels.
George also recorded the song for his latest album "Troubadour". Everyone at his record label thinks it could be a hit record,
and they also have plans to release it to radio as a single.
Once George's people heard Kenny had released the song as a single, they went nuclear.
Kenny knows what a problem he has on his hands and
has even gone to George's manager Erv Woolsey to apologize.
The suits over at George's label are focused right now on getting his latest song "Troubadour" to number one. If Troubadour hits the top ofthe Billboard Chart it will be his 57th number one song and it would break his own record of 56 number one singles. (the most in recorded music history)
After that, the label will decide whether or not to release the George Strait version of "Everybody Wants To Go To Heaven.
Meanwhile George is so PO'd that he has contacted the powers that be over at the CMA and the ACM's, to make sure come awards time that his seats are nowhere near Kenny Chesney's section.
Imagine awards night and the look on George Strait's face as he looks up at the stage as Kenny Chesney accepts his award for
"Everybody Wants To Go The Heaven"
Or if George's version of the song is released, and all the radio stations put both versions against each other on the stations "Song Wars" feature.
If this really blows up, I'm sure the Awards shows producers will be taking full advantage of this deal for ratings.
I can hear the clips from "Pure Country" now
"Go on get your ass outta here"
I'm hoping George Strait will call in for an interview soon, I can hear him now ...and don't ever play shiftwork again either! %##@@!*%
Everybody Wants To Go Heaven No. 6 After 3rd Week of Release
Chesney's Lucky Old Sun Lead Single Is Blazing – Album October 14
Nashville: When Kenny Chesney drops new music, it's always cause for excitement. With his Poets & Pirates tour winding down - two weekends from what will no doubt be the party of the year in Indianapolis' Lincoln Oil Stadium, the fans are in a full-boil over the Luttrell, Tennessean's laidback kind of country.
Add to the mix brand new music that is so classically Kenny, like his Oct. 14th street date Lucky Old Sun with its lead single, “Everybody Wants To Go To Heaven,” and watch Chesney go to #6 on the Billboard Country Singles chart three short weeks after add date.
“It's a song that really is everything my fans like, live, love, breath,” laughs the high energy entertainer who knows how to chill out whenever possible. “I look around and I see people who know how to have a good time, and they do it every chance they can. These are good people, living good lives - and of course they wanna go to heaven… But they just wanna have a few more good times here on earth before they do.”
Mining the notion of redemption not being opposed to fun-living, “Everybody Wants To Go To Heaven” merges the fundamental notion of religion that grounded Chesney's “I Go Back” with the good timing reality of “When The Sun Goes Down,” “No Shoes, No Shirt, No Problems” and “Never Wanted Nothing More.”
Named for the Tin Pan Ally standard that served as Chesney's first recording with the legendary Willie Nelson, Lucky Old Sun is slated for a deluxe edition release on October 14th. That will be followed by a conventional music only version in-stores on Oct. 21.
“I know this is a really fun song,” Chesney concedes, “and there is a bunch more like it on this record. But this is an album that goes deeper, gives the fans a clearer picture of who I am right now, I feel and how I got here. If Be As You Are was more of a road trip to the places I drink beer in the islands, this is more how the islands - and anywhere there's coast, really, Mexico, Florida, Virgin Islands, the Pacific Coast Highway in California - have shaped who I'm becoming.”
As the Corona Extra sponsored Poets & Pirates Tour winds down, Chesney is finishing off quite a chapter in his life. Logging his 15th straight chart-topper with the multiple week #1 “Better As A Memory,: Chesney is looking at his seventh straight summer of selling in excess of a million tickets… and being a pivotal force in seeing the 23rd Farm Aid Concert sell-out on the day tickets went on sale.
“This is a good time for this music,” Chesney says. “I'm at a place in my life where the things I was figuring out with Just Who I Am were ready to be realized on a record. I'm very grateful my label was able to help me release it now… as it's a record that reflects where I am in this moment.”
