Pop a Top
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| "Pop a Top" | ||||
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| Single by Jim Ed Brown | ||||
| from the album Just Jim | ||||
| B-side | "Too Good to Be True" | |||
| Released | May 1967 | |||
| Genre | Country | |||
| Length | 2:20 | |||
| Label | RCA Victor | |||
| Songwriter | Nat Stuckey | |||
| Producer | Felton Jarvis | |||
| Jim Ed Brown singles chronology | ||||
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| "Pop a Top" | ||||
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| Single by Alan Jackson | ||||
| from the album Under the Influence | ||||
| B-side | "Revenooer Man" | |||
| Released | October 4, 1999 | |||
| Recorded | 1999 | |||
| Genre | Country, Western swing[1] | |||
| Length | 3:04 | |||
| Label | Arista Nashville 13183 | |||
| Songwriter | Nat Stuckey | |||
| Producer | Keith Stegall | |||
| Alan Jackson singles chronology | ||||
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"Pop a Top" is a country song written and originally recorded by Nat Stuckey in 1966. The first hit version was released by Jim Ed Brown in May 1967 as the third and final single from his album Just Jim. The song was a number 3 Billboard country single for Brown in late 1967. It was later revived by Alan Jackson as the lead-off single from his 1999 album Under the Influence. Jackson's version peaked at number 6 on the United States Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart, and number 2 on the Canadian RPM Country Tracks chart.[2]
The narrator, a bar patron, asks the tender to open another bottle of beer for him, and then he'll go. He commences to tell the bartender about his grief because his girl left him, and either he'll hide it with beer, or he'll be at home remembering heɾ. The sound of a metal "pop-top" can being opened was a novelty, and that is a significant factor in the creating of this song. The metallic click and hiss sound of opening this type of container is featured several times in the song.
