Sonny James

[Undisclosed Recipient]

15 (consecutive) nr 1's--is that the record?

A lot of decisions concerning songs and recording have also been made on
those busses.
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According to Sonny James, his decision to record his 1971 number one,
"Bright Lights, Big City," was made on his tour bus.
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Sonny commented, "I don't remember just where we were but it was on the
bus on the way to or from a show date. We always kept a gut string
guitar on the bus and someone was always playing it. Jack Galloway was
playing the guitar that afternoon and he just began singing "bright
lights-big city-going to my baby's head." Everybody joined in and we
just had a ball singing that song.  When we finished, I asked Jack
about the song and after he told me all about it, I decided to record
it...since we had had so much fun singing it."
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The song was written by Jimmy Reed and was a # 58 pop hit for him in
1961.
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Sonny James' Capitol Records version came on the country music charts
June 19th, 1971 and was country music's number one song the week of July
24th.
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It was his 37th charted song and his 15th consecutive number one and his
19th overall.
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The record was produced by George Richey and was on the charts for 13
weeks.