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This week’s feature is The Oak Ridge Boys’ ‘Have Arrived’ album & 2 tunes: “I Gotta Get Over This” (Side 1) & “Leaving Louisiana In The Broad Daylight” (Side 2). This week’s featured interior: 1936 Stout Scarab [more info in previous features: 09/07/2016 “Automotive Daily Deals” via THIS LINK HERE, 10/07/2016 “Friday Files” via THIS LINK HERE, 11/15/2016 “Twist Tuesday” via THIS LINK HERE, 12/07/2016 “Automotive Daily Deals” via THIS LINK HERE & 04/11/2017 “Turntable Tuesday” via THIS LINK HERE].

ALBUM:
‘Have Arrived’, 03/30/1979
ARTIST:
The Oak Ridge Boys
For more about ORB’s hits & history, see the 11/21/2015 “CarTunes Saturday” entry via THIS LINK HERE, the 02/10/2016 “Wednesday Wrap” entry via THIS LINK HERE & the 11/05/2016 “CarTunes Saturday” entry via THIS LINK HERE. This record (which I own on vinyl; given to me by my Aunt Chris from her former collection) features 10 great tunes. Side 1 has 1979’s “Sail Away” (#2, 2 weeks) & 4 un-released songs: “There Must Be Something About Me That She Loves”, “Sometimes The Rain Won’t Let Me Sleep”, “I Gotta Get Over This” & “My Radio Sure Sounds Good To Me”. Side 2 features 1979’s “Dream On” (#7), 1979-80’s “Leaving Louisiana In The Broad Daylight” (#1; also recorded the same year by co-writer Rodney Crowell on his debut album ‘Ain’t Living Long Like This’) & 3 un-released tunes: “Every Now & Then”, “Dig A Little Deeper In The Well” & “Dancing The Night Away” (previously recorded in 1976 by the Amazing Rhythm Aces, in 1977 by Tanya Tucker & in 1978 by Leo Sayer).

FEATURE SONG # 1:
“I Gotta Get Over This”
Considering I just received this record a “few” years ago, way after my radio shows in college where we had record players & amidst my radio shows on a local radio station (which didn’t have usable, on-air-ready record players), I really haven’t listened to many of the un-released songs on this … at least, not well enough to have developed a liking for them. Except, of course, for THIS tune. The title makes it sound like some sad song, but I’m telling you … it is quite upbeat, uplifting & forward-hopeful looking … which describes my efforts these last few years!

FEATURE SONG # 2:
“Leaving Louisiana In The Broad Daylight”
This intriguing song is 1 of those I didn’t really know what it meant when it 1st hit the airwaves. Debuting 12/01/1979, this single spent 15 weeks on the country charts & claimed #1 in early 1980. As a kid, the only part of this song that really “hit home” to me was the lyric “the highway goes on forever, that old highway rolls on forever”. Still hits home, of course, but now, I understand a bit more about the story of the song. Funny how our understandings change as we gain age & wisdom, isn’t it!? Their follow-up song was equally baffling to me as a kid, but now…: 1980’s “Trying To Love 2 Women” (#1).