One Night a Day
"One Night a Day" | ||||
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Single by Garth Brooks | ||||
from the album In Pieces | ||||
B-side | "Mr. Blue" | |||
Released | May 2, 1994 | |||
Genre | Country | |||
Length | 4:16 | |||
Label | Liberty 17972 | |||
Songwriter(s) | Gary Burr, Pete Wasner | |||
Producer(s) | Allen Reynolds | |||
Garth Brooks singles chronology | ||||
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"One Night a Day" is a song recorded by American country music artist Garth Brooks. It was released in May 1994 as the fourth single from his album In Pieces and also appears on The Limited Series. A live version of the song appears on The Road album in Brooks' 2016 box set, The Ultimate Collection. The song was written by Gary Burr and Pete Wasner. This song, predominantly featuring the piano and saxophone, is noted for its unique jazz stylings.
Content
This song features just piano, saxophone (played by Jim Horn), bass guitar and drums. The lyrics of the song talk about how the narrator gets through the nights after his lover has left him. Several ways he copes includes talking to himself, listening to the radio, calling up friends in the middle of the night to let them know he's OK and staying up with the Late Show.
Critical reception
Deborah Evans Price, of Billboard magazine reviewed the song favorably, saying that Brooks "leaves the honky-tonk behind and steps briefly into the cocktail lounge." She goes on to say that he adopts a "slick, un-country singing style for this broken-hearted lament."[1]
Track listing
Australian CD single EMI, 1994
- "One Night a Day" - 4:14
- "If Tomorrow Never Comes" - 3:37
- "Callin' Baton Rouge" - 2:35
US 7" single Capitol Nashville S7-17972-A, 1994
- "One Night a Day"
- "Mr. Blue"
Chart performance
"One Night a Day" reached number 7 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart and number 14 on the Canadian RPM Country Tracks chart.
Chart (1994) | Peak position |
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Australian Singles Chart[2] | 35 |
Canada Country Tracks (RPM)[3] | 14 |
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)[4] | 7 |
References
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- "Much Too Young (To Feel This Damn Old)"
- "If Tomorrow Never Comes"
- "Not Counting You"
- "The Dance"
- "Friends in Low Places"
- "Unanswered Prayers"
- "Two of a Kind, Workin' on a Full House"
- "The Thunder Rolls"
- "Wild Horses" (released in 2000)
- "Rodeo"
- "Shameless"
- "What She's Doing Now"
- "Papa Loved Mama"
- "The River"
- "We Shall Be Free"
- "Somewhere Other Than the Night"
- "Learning to Live Again"
- "That Summer"
- "Ain't Goin' Down ('Til the Sun Comes Up)"
- "American Honky-Tonk Bar Association"
- "Standing Outside the Fire"
- "One Night a Day"
- "Callin' Baton Rouge"
- "The Red Strokes"
- "She's Every Woman"
- "The Fever"
- "The Beaches of Cheyenne"
- "The Change"
- "It's Midnight Cinderella"
- "That Ol' Wind"
- "Longneck Bottle"
- "She's Gonna Make It"
- "Two Piña Coladas"
- "You Move Me"
- "Do What You Gotta Do" (released in 2000)
- "When You Come Back to Me Again" (released in 2000)
- "Wrapped Up in You"
- "Squeeze Me In" (with Trisha Yearwood)
- "Thicker Than Blood"
- "Why Ain't I Running"
- "More Than a Memory"
- "Workin' for a Livin'" (with Huey Lewis)
- "People Loving People"
- "Mom"
- "All Day Long"
- "Stronger Than Me"
- "Dive Bar" (with Blake Shelton)
- "Shallow"
- "That's What Cowboys Do"
- "Whatcha Gonna Do with a Cowboy" (with Chris LeDoux; uncredited)
- "In Another's Eyes" (with Trisha Yearwood)
- "Burnin the Roadhouse Down" (with Steve Wariner)
- "Where Your Road Leads" (with Trisha Yearwood)
- "Katie Wants a Fast One" (with Steve Wariner)
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