Would You Catch a Falling Star
"Would You Catch a Falling Star" | ||||
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Single by John Anderson | ||||
from the album I Just Came Home to Count the Memories | ||||
B-side | "I Danced with the San Antonio Rose"[1] | |||
Released | April 17, 1982 | |||
Genre | Country | |||
Length | 2:56 | |||
Label | Warner Bros. Nashville | |||
Songwriter(s) | Bobby Braddock | |||
Producer(s) |
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John Anderson singles chronology | ||||
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"Would You Catch a Falling Star" is a song written by Bobby Braddock, and recorded by American country music artist John Anderson. It was released in April 1982 as the second single from the album I Just Came Home to Count the Memories. The song reached number 6 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.[1]
The song was covered by Del McCoury and Sierra Hull on the 2022 John Anderson tribute album Something Borrowed, Something New.
Content
"Would You Catch a Falling Star" is a tongue in cheek look at the pitfalls of stardom and fame, told of a one-time superstar whose drawing power and appeal to fans is fading.
The song opens telling about the performer, a one-time superstar, finishing a country music show, that had a small crowd. He then departs backstage, half drunk and meets a lady ("with all his country charm"), he says to her "Would you catch a falling star before he crashes to the ground." The song goes on to say that "nobody loves you when you're down". Stating that if she will pick him up and take him home, he will bring his old guitar, and sing a golden oldie song.
The next part of the song tells of his once wealth and fame, "He had a silver-plated bus, and a million country fans". The narrator states, now there's just a few of us and he drives a little van. He tells how the fans were beating down his door, lovely women left and right. Now he's down on his luck wondering where he will spend his night.
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References
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- John Anderson
- John Anderson 2
- I Just Came Home to Count the Memories
- Wild & Blue
- All the People Are Talkin'
- Eye of a Hurricane
- Tokyo, Oklahoma
- Countrified
- Blue Skies Again
- 10
- Too Tough to Tame
- Seminole Wind
- Solid Ground
- Country 'til I Die
- Paradise
- Takin' the Country Back
- Nobody's Got It All
- Easy Money
- Bigger Hands
- Goldmine
- Years
- Greatest Hits (1984)
- Greatest Hits Volume II
- Greatest Hits (1996)
- "Your Lying Blue Eyes"
- "She Just Started Liking Cheatin' Songs"
- "1959"
- "I'm Just an Old Chunk of Coal (But I'm Gonna Be a Diamond Someday)"
- "Chicken Truck"
- "I Just Came Home to Count the Memories"
- "Would You Catch a Falling Star"
- "Wild and Blue"
- "Swingin'"
- "Goin' Down Hill"
- "Black Sheep"
- "Let Somebody Else Drive"
- "She Sure Got Away with My Heart"
- "Eye of a Hurricane"
- "It's All Over Now"
- "Down in Tennessee"
- "Honky Tonk Crowd"
- "Somewhere Between Ragged and Right" (with Waylon Jennings)
- "Straight Tequila Night"
- "When It Comes to You"
- "Seminole Wind"
- "Let Go of the Stone"
- "Money in the Bank"
- "I Fell in the Water"
- "I've Got It Made"
- "I Wish I Could Have Been There"
- "Bend It Until It Breaks"
- "Mississippi Moon"
- "Paradise"
- "Somebody Slap Me"
- "If Her Lovin' Don't Kill Me"
- "Years"
- "Tuesday I'll Be Gone"
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