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| Released = October 1965
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| Recorded = August 1965<BR>Starday Sound Studio<BR>Nashville, Tennessee
| Genre = [[Country music|Country]]
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| Label = [[Starday Records|Starday]]
| Writer = Red Sovine
| Producer = Tommy Hill
| Last single = "Hold Everything (Till I Get Home)"<br />(1956)
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"'''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.
"'''Giddyup Go''''" is a 1965 single by [[Red Sovine]]. The single was a spoken-word recording which became Sovine's second number one on the U.S. country music chart. "Giddyup Go" spent six weeks at the top and a total of twenty-one weeks on the chart.<ref>{{cite book |title= The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition|last=Whitburn |first=Joel |authorlink=Joel Whitburn |year=2004 |publisher=Record Research |page=326}}</ref>▼
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==Story of "Giddyup Go"==
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-genre. But it took until 1965 when Sovine -- at the time, absent from the country music charts for nine years -- finally found his niche.<ref>Manheim, James, "Red Sovine" at [[Allmusic]]. [http://allmusic.com/artist/red-sovine-p1816/biography]</ref>
The first big truck-driving hit from Sovine, "Giddyup Go" is the tale of an emotional father-son reunion at a highway truck stop. The reunion is played out near the end of the song.
In the setup, the elder truck driver -- who shares his experiences in first person -- 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, whose gibberish attempt to greet his father while behind the wheel inspired the name of the man's 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 passed away 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. Afterward, an emotional reunion takes place between the two men, who realize they are father and son.
==Chart performance==
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