music.wikisort.org - Composition"Little Green Apples" is a song written by Bobby Russell that became a hit for three different artists, with their three separate releases, in 1968. Originally written for and released by American recording artist Roger Miller, "Little Green Apples" was also released as a single by American recording artists Patti Page and O. C. Smith that same year. Miller's version became a Top 40 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and on the UK Singles Chart (and a #6 hit on the Billboard Country chart), while Page's version became her last Hot 100 entry and Smith's version became a #2 hit on the Hot 100 chart. The song earned Russell a Grammy Award for Song of the Year and for Best Country Song. In 2013, "Little Green Apples" was covered by English recording artist Robbie Williams featuring American recording artist Kelly Clarkson, which became a top 40 hit in Mexico.
1968 song
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"Little Green Apples" |
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B-side | - "Long Black Limousine" (non-UK)
- "Gas, Food, Lodging" (UK)
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Released | September 1968 (1968-09) |
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Recorded | 1968 at Columbia Recording Studios, Hollywood |
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Genre | R&B, soul |
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Length | 3:58 |
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Label | Columbia |
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Songwriter(s) | Bobby Russell |
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Producer(s) | Jerry Fuller[1] |
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"Main Street Mission" (1968) |
"Little Green Apples" (1968) |
"Isn't It Lonely Together?" (1968) |
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Overview
According to Buzz Cason, who partnered Bobby Russell in the Nashville-based Rising Sons music publishing firm, Russell wrote both the songs "Honey" (a #1 hit for Bobby Goldsboro in 1968) and "Little Green Apples" as "an experiment in composing", anticipating a potential market for true-to-life story songs...with more 'meat' in the lyrics [than was] standard" for current hits.[2] Russell wrote "Little Green Apples" for Roger Miller to record and Miller made the first recording of the song on January 24, 1968 in a session produced by Jerry Kennedy at Columbia Recording Studio Nashville.[3] Released as the lead single from the album A Tender Look at Love, "Little Green Apples" afforded Miller his final Top Ten C&W hit at #6 and also his final Top 40 crossover reaching #39 on the Hot 100 in Billboard. In the UK, Miller's "Little Green Apples" reached #19 in the spring of 1968 – when it also reached #46 in Australia – and in the spring of 1969 the track returned to the UK chart reaching #39.[4]
Patti Page recorded "Little Green Apples" for her C&W-oriented album Gentle on My Mind whose title cut shared the Easy Listening Top Ten with Roger Miller's "Little Green Apples". Page's version of the latter was released as a single in June 1968, reaching #11 Easy Listening and affording Page the final Hot 100 appearance of her career at #96.
O. C. Smith had recorded "Little Green Apples" at Columbia Studios LA for Hickory Holler Revisited, the parent album of his Top 40 hit "Son of Hickory Holler's Tramp". The track "Main Street Mission" was originally issued as the follow-up single, but as Buzz Cason recalls "a disc jockey in Detroit played the album cut [by O. C. Smith] of 'Little Green Apples' one morning". That single spin triggered "such a reaction and rash of phone requests [as to] prompt [the deejay] to call Steve Popovich, head of promotion for Columbia in New York [City]",[5] and "Little Green Apples" replaced "Main Street Mission" as Smith's then current single. Smith's version was a #2 hit on the Hot 100, behind "Hey Jude" by the Beatles,[6] and likewise peaked at #2 on the R&B chart in Billboard and was certified Gold for domestic sales of one million units.[7] The song won its composer Bobby Russell the 1969 Grammy Award for Song of the Year and the Grammy Award for Best Country Song.[8]
Chart positions
Weekly charts
- Roger Miller version
- Patti Page version
- O. C. Smith version
- Robbie Williams featuring Kelly Clarkson version
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Year-end charts
- O.C. Smith version
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Other notable versions
The song has been covered by the following artists and groups:
References
- "Biography". Jerry Fuller's official website. Archived from the original on April 26, 2010. Retrieved June 13, 2009.
- Billboard vol 80 #13 (March 30, 1968) p.51
- "Praguefrank's Country Music Discographies: Roger Miller". countrydiscography.blogspot.com. Archived from the original on 31 October 2011. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
- "Chart appearances for the song "Little Green Apples"". the database of popular music. Archived from the original on October 7, 2011. Retrieved June 13, 2009.
- Living the Rock 'N' Roll Dream : The Adventures of Buzz Cason; Hal Leonard Corp Milwaukee WI (2004) ISBN 0-634-06672-2; p.192
- "The Hot 100: the week of October 26, 1968". Billboard. Retrieved December 15, 2018.
- Murrells, Joseph (1978). The Book of Golden Discs (2nd ed.). London: Barrie and Jenkins Ltd. p. 248. ISBN 0-214-20512-6.
- "O. C. Smith, 65, Singer-Minister Who Had a Grammy Award Hit". The New York Times. November 27, 2001. Retrieved June 13, 2009.
- Kent, David (2005). Australian Chart Book 1940–1969 (doc). Australian Chart Book, St Ives, N.S.W. ISBN 0-646-44439-5.
- "Official Singles Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company.
- "Roger Miller Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard.
- "Roger Miller Chart History (Adult Contemporary)". Billboard.
- "Roger Miller Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.
- "Patti Page Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard.
- "Patti Page Chart History (Adult Contemporary)". Billboard.
- "O.C. Smith Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard.
- "O.C. Smith Chart History (Adult Contemporary)". Billboard.
- "O.C. Smith Chart History (Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs)". Billboard.
- "Mexico Inglés Airplay". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. March 1, 2015. Retrieved September 19, 2013. (subscription required)
- "Billboard Top 100 - 1968". Archived from the original on 2010-11-25. Retrieved 2011-01-05.
- Graff, Gary (September 12, 2013). "Lily Allen duets with Robbie Williams on his new album 'Swings Both Ways'". NME. IPC Media. Retrieved September 13, 2013.
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2001−2020 |
- "Beautiful Day" – Adam Clayton, David Evans, Laurence Mullen & Paul Hewson (songwriters) (2001)
- "Fallin'" – Alicia Keys (songwriter) (2002)
- "Don't Know Why" – Jesse Harris (songwriter) (2003)
- "Dance with My Father" – Richard Marx & Luther Vandross (songwriters) (2004)
- "Daughters" – John Mayer (songwriter) (2005)
- "Sometimes You Can't Make It on Your Own" – Adam Clayton, David Evans, Laurence Mullen & Paul Hewson (songwriters) (2006)
- "Not Ready to Make Nice" – Emily Burns Erwin, Martha Maguire, Natalie Maines Pasdar & Dan Wilson (songwriters) (2007)
- "Rehab" – Amy Winehouse (songwriter) (2008)
- "Viva la Vida" – Guy Berryman, Jonathan Buckland, William Champion & Christopher Martin (songwriters) (2009)
- "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)" – Thaddis "Kuk" Harrell, Beyoncé Knowles, Terius Nash & Christopher Stewart (songwriters) (2010)
- "Need You Now" – Dave Haywood, Josh Kear, Charles Kelley & Hillary Scott (songwriters) (2011)
- "Rolling in the Deep" – Adele Adkins & Paul Epworth (songwriters) (2012)
- "We Are Young" – Jack Antonoff, Jeff Bhasker, Andrew Dost & Nate Ruess (songwriters) (2013)
- "Royals" – Joel Little & Ella Yelich O'Connor (songwriters) (2014)
- "Stay with Me" (Darkchild version) – James Napier, William Phillips & Sam Smith (songwriters) (2015)
- "Thinking Out Loud" – Ed Sheeran & Amy Wadge (songwriters) (2016)
- "Hello" – Adele Adkins & Greg Kurstin (songwriters) (2017)
- "That's What I Like" – Christopher Brody Brown, James Fauntleroy, Philip Lawrence, Bruno Mars, Ray Charles McCullough II, Jeremy Reeves, Ray Romulus & Jonathan Yip (songwriters) (2018)
- "This Is America" – Donald Glover, Ludwig Göransson & Jeffery Lamar Williams (songwriters) (2019)
- "Bad Guy" – Billie Eilish O'Connell & Finneas O'Connell (songwriters) (2020)
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Studio albums |
- Roger and Out
- The Return of Roger Miller
- The 3rd Time Around
- Words and Music
- Walkin' in the Sunshine
- Waterhole #3 (Code of the West)
- A Tender Look at Love
- Roger Miller
- Roger Miller Featuring Dang Me!
- Roger Miller 1970
- A Trip in the Country
- Dear Folks, Sorry I Haven't Written Lately
- Celebration
- Painted Poetry
- Off the Wall
- Making a Name for Myself
- Old Friends with Willie Nelson
- Roger Miller
- The Country Side of Roger Miller
- Green Green Grass of Home
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Live albums |
- Roger Miller Live!
- Live
- Hits You Remember: Live
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Singles | 1950s – 1960s | |
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1970s – 1980s |
- "The Tom Green County Fair"
- "South"
- "Tomorrow Night in Baltimore"
- "Lovin' Her Was Easier (Than Anything I'll Ever Do Again)"
- "We Found It in Each Other's Arms"
- "Sunny Side of My Life"
- "Rings for Sale"
- "Hoppy's Gone"
- "Open Up Your Heart"
- "I Believe in the Sunshine"
- "Whistle Stop"
- "Our Love"
- "I Love a Rodeo"
- "Baby Me Baby"
- "Oklahoma Woman"
- "The Hat"
- "Everyone Gets Crazy Now and Then"
- "Old Friends" with Willie Nelson and Ray Price
- "River in the Rain"
- "Some Hearts Get All the Breaks"
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Compilations |
- Golden Hits
- The Best of Roger Miller, Volume One: Country Tunesmith
- The Best of Roger Miller, Volume Two: King of the Road
- King of the Road: The Genius of Roger Miller
- 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection
- All Time Greatest Hits
- A Man Like Me
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