This is how Samford started their football season, on the opening kickoff from Georgia State in the Georgia Dome:
The Bulldogs would pull an impressive comeback in the second half tonight to open their season with a 31-21 win.
So there was a music contest …
Fred Stobaugh, whose wife Lorraine died in April, has no previous musical experience and wrote the song on a whim for a competition.
He submitted his handwritten lyrics by post and, although the contest was online-only, the organisers were so moved they put the words to music.
Oh Sweet Lorraine is number seven on US iTunes and has 1.9m YouTube views.
Billboard magazine said the song had sold 6,000 copies so far, placing it at number 49 in its rock digital songs sales chart.
The track is also in the iTunes charts for Austria, Switzerland, Germany, Sweden, Norway and Luxembourg.
There’s a short film about it. If you read the above, at least watch the second half:
He’s not a songwriter, or a musician, or a singer. So when the studio brought him the song he was hearing it for the first time. You almost feel like you can see it all, almost 75 years, right there in his eyes.
Are there covers? Can we turn this unexpected hit and lovely story into another installment of YouTube Cover Theater? There are covers.
And that’s enough to get us off to the weekend. Hope yours is great!
