Hurricane (Leon Everette song)

"Hurricane"
Single by Leon Everette
from the album Hurricane
B-side "Make Me Stop Loving Her"[1]
Released July 13, 1981
Length 3:22
Label RCA
Writer(s) Thom Schuyler
Keith Stegall
Stewart Harris[2]
Producer Ronnie Dean
Leon Everette
Leon Everette singles chronology
"If I Keep On Going Crazy"
(1981)		 "Hurricane"
(1981)		 "Midnight Rodeo"
(1981)

"Hurricane" is the title of a song co-written by Thom Schuyler, Keith Stegall and Stewart Harris, and recorded by American singer Leon Everette. It was released in July 1981 as the lead single from Everette's RCA Records album Hurricane. It is Everette's highest-charting single.

Contents

Content

The song is about an old man who lives in the famed New Orleans French Quarter. The man is unfazed when told that a hurricane was about to hit the city; even when "a man from Chicago" claims that the levees need to be raised, he claims that the levees will hold and the man will be "on his way to Illinois".[3]

Critical reception

Dave Marsh, in The New Rolling Stone Record Guide, called Everette a "poor man's Johnny Lee" and said the song was "almost an interesting ballad".[4] Jerry Sharpe of The Pittsburgh Press wrote that the song "defeats the standard old formulas for successful country music lyrics — no love story, no sex, no booze, no tragedy."[3]

Chart performance

Chart (1981) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles[1] 4
Canadian RPM Country Tracks[5] 3

References

  1. ^ a b Whitburn, Joel (2008). Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008. Record Research, Inc. p. 139. ISBN 0-89820-177-2. 
  2. ^ "Search results". Broadcast Music Incorporated. http://repertoire.bmi.com/title.asp?blnWriter=True&blnPublisher=True&blnArtist=True&page=1&keyid=599067&ShowNbr=0&ShowSeqNbr=0&querytype=WorkID. Retrieved 1 June 2011. 
  3. ^ a b Sharpe, Jerry (31 January 1982). "'Hurricane' Storming Country Scene". The Pittsburgh Press: pp. J–6. http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=KckdAAAAIBAJ&sjid=CV4EAAAAIBAJ&pg=6737,6578039&dq=leon-everette+hurricane&hl=en. Retrieved 1 June 2011. 
  4. ^ Marsh, Dave; Swenson, John (1983). The new Rolling stone record guide. Random House/Rolling Stone Press. p. 167. ISBN 0394721071. 
  5. ^ "RPM Country Tracks for November 7, 1981". RPM. http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php?&file_num=nlc008388.0408&type=1&interval=20&PHPSESSID=pv241l2atp4jnss71gr0dmmr45. Retrieved 1 June 2011.