Song with long title a hit for David Houston in ’76
This week in 1976: 3,000 blacks clashed with police in Cape Town, South Africa; a Soviet pilot landed a highly advanced MIG-25 in Tokyo and asked for political asylum in the United States; 165,000 United Auto Workers went on strike at Ford Motor Plant in Michigan; and a singer from Bossier City, La., had his 47th hit record.
A lot of hit songs have been written by a writer coming up with a single line or a phrase or someone else joining in and on and on and on.
According to Norro Wilson, David Houston’s 1976 hit “Come on Down to Our Favorite ForgetAbout-Her Place” was one of those tunes.
Norro commented, “I really don’t remember whose idea that song was—Billy Sherrill’s or mine. And it could have been that somebody thought it would be a good song because the title was so long! I just don’t remember but I think Billy might have come up with that title and all of a sudden came up with a line—then another line—and off we went. Now I have no idea where the original idea came from but I think it was Billy’s title.”
Davis Houston’s Epic Records single “Come on Down to Our Favorite Forget-About-Her Place” came on the country charts Sept. 25, 1976, and peaked at No. 24.
It was his 47th charted song and was on the charts for 12 weeks.
Houston placed 61 songs on the country music charts between 1963 and 1989—including seven No. 1s. Included in those hit singles were duets with Tammy Wynette and Barbara Mandrell.
Houston died in 1993 at age 54.