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04/11/2023

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12/30/2022

There’s a song for every situation

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11/09/2022

So many deaths of great musicians lately. Playing with the best of them in heaven now

A RIFF on what country is really about.

11/08/2022

The Story Behind The Song:

”You’ve Got To Stand For Something”
(written by Buddy Brock and Aaron Tippin)

Aaron Tippin ( #6, 1991)

The music bug had bit Aaron Tippin at a young age when he was growing up in Travelers Rest, South Carolina. He performed at local bars during the 1970s, but his passion was writing songs. By 1986, Tippin had ventured to Nashville and landed a job composing tunes for Acuff-Rose Publishing Company. At Acuff-Rose, he penned songs that were recorded by David Ball, Mark Collie and Charley Pride. A boyhood chum, Buddy Brock, had also taken an interest in the songwriting craft and when Aaron decided to move to Nashville, he asked Brock to come along. However, Buddy decided to stay in South Carolina. After Tippin was able to land his record deal with RCA, Brock played a major role in the development of Aaron’s first hit record.

Tippin was recently divorced, but would try to get back to South Carolina every other weekend to see his daughter. She was about the same age as Brock’s daughter and the two of them would play while Aaron and Buddy wrote songs. One day Brock came up with an unusual idea for a song after remembering something his father used to tell him. He’d say, “You’ve got to stand for something or you’ll fall for anything.” Buddy felt that the phrase would make a good title and, if handled right, could be turned into a hit song. The line got Aaron to thinking about his own father and how much alike he was to Buddy’s.

But they went in another direction and started writing a tune about a boy who always got into trouble and his dad kept bailing him out. After a while the men realized that it just wasn’t working. It didn’t sound like “them.” This scenario simply wasn’t realistic in their world, based on the strict and moralistic standards their fathers had instilled in them as kids. So they went back to the phrase uttered by Buddy’s dad: “You’ve got to stand for something or you’ll fall for anything” and structured a new song around that.

Tippin was thinking of his father when he wrote the line, “Daddy didn’t like trouble but when it came along, everyone that knew him knew which side he’d be on,” remembering a time when they were at a high school football game. Aaron was about ten years old. The National Anthem was being played and there were a couple of rowdy boys standing near them and they were talking loudly during the song. After it finished playing, everybody sat down except for Aaron’s dad. He walked over to the boys and told them what he thought of their conduct. He said next time, they need to stand up, shut up and have respect for the flag and this country. That’s the type of guy he was. Aaron says he saw him stand up that way many times.

Aaron was spotted by executives from RCA one night while he was performing in a Nashville night club. The label signed him to a long-term recording contract soon afterward. Tippin had made a demo of his and Buddy’s song, “You’ve Got To Stand For Something,” and wanted to personally play it for Joe Galante, President of RCA Records. Aaron stored that and most of his other personal possessions in an old, beat-up, wooden beer box. He was well-known around Music Row for carrying this thing around just about everywhere he went.

Tippin placed a call to Galante to set up an appointment to hear the song. He knew the RCA president was a busy man, but much to Aaron’s surprise, Joe said, “Sure, come on up.” So Aaron went into Galante’s office and threw the old beer box down on his fancy desk (shoving his papers out of the way in the process). Joe looked at it kind of funny. Aaron dug out the demo of “You’ve Got To Stand For Something” and they listened to it. Then Galante got up and left the room for a few minutes. He came back with this beautiful new RCA briefcase. He said, “Aaron, I love the song. That’s going to be your first single.” Aaron was excited, of course. Then Joe handed him the briefcase and said, “Oh, and one more thing: Don’t ever bring that %&$@ # beer box in my office again!”

“You’ve Got To Stand For Something” debuted on Billboard’s country singles chart on November 3, 1990. It quickly became a rallying cry for our servicemen fighting in the Gulf War. The song finished at #6 in the early part of 1991, a good start to Aaron Tippin’s career that went on to produce nine Top Ten hits, including three number ones. His last significant chart appearance was in October, 2001 when his crowning achievement, the superb “Where The Stars And Stripes And The Eagle Fly” (released just after the 9/11 terrorist attacks), peaked at #2 on Billboard’s country chart and even rose to a respectable #20 on the pop side. – JH