Smoky Mountain Rain
"Smoky Mountain Rain" is the title of a song written by Kye Fleming and Dennis Morgan, and recorded by American country music singer Ronnie Milsap. It was released in September 1980 as the first single from his Greatest Hits album. The single became one of his best-known songs.
His 16th No. 1 hit on the Billboard magazine Hot Country Singles chart in December 1980, "Smoky Mountain Rain" also fared well as a crossover hit, becoming his first of two No. 1 hits on the Billboard adult contemporary chart. The song also fared modestly well at Top 40 radio stations, as the song reached No. 24 on the Billboard Hot 100.
In 2010 "Smoky Mountain Rain" became Tennessee's eighth state song as a result of action by the Tennessee General Assembly on June 3, 2010.
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Famous quotes containing the words smoky, mountain and/or rain:
“We’ve looked and looked, but after all where are we?
Do we know any better where we are,
And how it stands between the night tonight
And a man with a smoky lantern chimney?
How different from the way it ever stood?”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“The Xanthus or Scamander is not a mere dry channel and bed of a mountain torrent, but fed by the ever-flowing springs of fame ... and I trust that I may be allowed to associate our muddy but much abused Concord River with the most famous in history.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Spindly branches of buttercups were secreted among gleaming stems still moist at the roots from last night’s rain that had washed and refreshed the entire wood, had dowered it in poignant transparency, the unique, inconsolable quality of rainy countries, as if all was glimpsed through tears.”
—Angela Carter (1940–1992)