Giddyup Go: Difference between revisions

| Name name = Giddyup Go

| Cover cover = Giddyup_Go_-_Red_Sovine.jpg

| Artist alt = [[Red Sovine]]

| Album type = Giddyup Gosingle

| B-side artist = "Kiss and the[[Red Keys"Sovine]]

| Released album = OctoberGiddyup 1965Go

| Writer venue = Red Sovine and Tommy Hill

| Nextwriter single = "LongRed Night"<brSovine />(1966)and Tommy Hill

| Miscproducer = Tommy =Hill

"'''Giddyup Go''''" is a country music song made famous by [[Red Sovine]]. Released in 1965, the song was the title track to Sovine's album released that same year.

A [[recitation song|recitation]] paying homage to the American truck driver, "Giddyup Go" becamewas Sovine's second No. 1 hit, spending six weeks atop the ''Billboard magazine'' [[Hot Country Songs|Hot Country Singles]] chart in January and February 1966.<ref>{{cite book |title= The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition|last=Whitburn |first=Joel |authorlinkauthor-link=Joel Whitburn |year=2004 |publisher=Record Research |page=326}}</ref>

Truck-driving songs had been a part of American country music since the late 1940s, and Sovine's label [[Starday Records]] had several artists who specialized in the sub-genresubgenre. ButIt itdidn't tooktake until 1965 when Sovine -- atSovine—at the time, absent from the country music charts for nine years -- finallyyears—finally found his niche.<ref>Manheim, James, "Red Sovine" at [[Allmusic]]. [http://allmusic.com/artist/red-sovine-p1816/biography]</ref>

In the setup, the elder truck driver -- whodriver—who shares his experiences in first person -- explainsperson—explains that he had spent the better part of 25 years on the road, most of them alone. In the early years of his career, he notes, he had a wife and young son. It was the son's gibberish attempt to greet his father, while driving the truck, that inspired the name of the truck ("Giddyup Go"). The stress of her husband's frequent absences eventually takes its toll on the marriage, and one day, the trucker returns home to find both gone, without contact information or an explanation. In the years following, the trucker is left to explain to other truck drivers the "Giddyup Go" nameplate on his truck, his only link to his son.

In the present time, the truck driver is traveling along [[U.S. Highway 66]] when he spots a new diesel rig with a nameplate reading "Giddyup Go." The father gets a lump in his throat, suspecting that he may have some connection to its driver. The two drivers meet at the next truck stop, and during the course of their conversation the boy explains that his mother had died and that he had lost contact with his father. He also reveals that the name of his "Giddyup Go" truck was inspired by a rig his father once owned. It is at this point where the elder trucker takes the younger man outside to reveal their connection, dusting off the name to show him. Afterward, an emotional reunion takes place between the two men, who realize they are father and son.

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Artists who have covered "Giddyup Go" include [[Dave Dudley]], [[Del Reeves]], [[Tex Williams]], [[Ferlin Husky]], and AustrailianAustralian country singer Nev Nicholls. The song also received Dutch covers by Gerard de Vries in the mid sixties, and later on in the early 1990s by [[Paul de Leeuw]], as his character Bob de Rooy. The later version, however, was a satire version of the song.

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