Blake Shelton Celebrates #1 Song, "Some Beach"
The beach was phony, but the rum was real -- and that's what counted with the merrymakers gathered at BMI's Nashville offices Tuesday (Feb. 22) to celebrate the success of Blake Shelton's "Some Beach," the recent No. 1 single written by Paul Overstreet and Rory Lee Feek. A temporary stage in the BMI lobby was designed to simulate a beach, complete with a beach chair, fake palms and a tropical sunset. ASCAP festooned its reception area with beach balls. In a switch from their usual buttoned-up business attire, BMI's party elves clad themselves in Hawaiian shirts and strode about while the bar pumped out margaritas and Tequila Sunrises. Paul Overstreet is a five-time winner of BMI's country songwriter of the year award and was commended for the sense of humor he displayed in such songs as "Diggin' Up Bones," "She Thinks My Tractor's Sexy," "Deeper Than the Holler," and "It Takes a Whole Lot of Liquor to Like Her." Accepting his award, Shelton said, "I figure you have only nine or 10 hits [like this] in a career. I'd like to space mine out over about 30 years." Shelton's other No. 1's are "Austin" (2001) and "The Baby" (2003). Later at ASCAP, Shelton sat down with reporters to reflect on his latest hit. "I'm glad to finally have a tempo hit," he said. "My show's so slow that people are killing themselves." Noting that his last No. 1 was "The Baby," he continued, "Dadgum, I was beginning to think that was it. ... I would love to know what it's like to have two hits in a row." Although people tend to hear "Some Beach" as being a "Jimmy Buffett song," Shelton said he thought it was more in the Bellamy Brothers tradition. In discussing the song's influences with Braddock, he said, they concluded, "We didn't realize Jimmy Buffett had a copyright on the ocean." It was said that "Some Beach" is "the best anger management song ever written. ... It's good therapy. "Goodbye Time," a Conway Twitty hit from 1988, is Shelton's current single. from CMT.com

Blake and song co-writer, Paul Overstreet

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