A Little Good News (song)
{{Infobox song
| name = A Little Good News
| cover = A Little Good News - Anne Murray.png
| alt =
| type = single
| artist = Anne Murray
| album = A Little Good News
| B-side = I'm Not Afraid Anymore
| released = September 1983 (US)
| format =
| recorded =
| studio =
| venue =
| genre = Country
| length = 3:08
| label = Capitol
| writer = {{hlist|Tommy Rocco|Charlie Black|Rory Bourke}}
| producer = Jim Ed Norman
| prev_title = Somebody's Always Saying Goodbye
| prev_year = 1982
| next_title = That's Not the Way (It's S'posed to Be)
| next_year = 1984
}}
"A Little Good News" is a song recorded by Canadian recording artist Anne Murray. It was released in September 1983 as the lead single from the album of the same name. The song was written by Tommy Rocco, Charlie Black, and Rory Bourke and was Anne Murray's seventh #1 hit on the Billboard country chart.
In the United States, the single hit #1 Country (lasting a total of 20 weeks on the Country chart overall), #10 Adult Contemporary, and #74 Pop. The song also appears on Murray's 2007 album Anne Murray Duets: Friends & Legends, performed as a duet with the Indigo Girls.
This song was used as the opening theme to the 1984-2000 CJON-DT program of the same name (later renamed NTV.ca), but has since been removed from reruns.
Content
In the song, the narrator expresses despair over all of the violence and suffering she reads about in newspapers and witnesses on TV news coverage, and notes how wonderful it would be if, for just one day, the newspapers and television news anchors had nothing to report, because they had "nothing bad to say". The song also gives references to Bryant Gumbel reporting on "the fighting in Lebanon".
Chart performance
| class="wikitable sortable"
!Chart (1983) !Peak |
| Canadian RPM Country Tracks
|align="center"|1 |
| Canadian RPM Adult Contemporary Tracks
|align="center"|2 |
| {{singlechart|Billboardcountrysongs|1|artist=Anne Murray}} |
| {{singlechart|Billboardadultcontemporary|11|artist=Anne Murray}} |
| {{singlechart|Billboardhot100|74|artist=Anne Murray}} |
| UK Singles Chart
|align="center"|92 |
Awards and honors
In 1984, "A Little Good News" won the Grammy Award for Best Country Vocal Performance, Female.{{cite web |publisher=National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences |via=Grammy.com |title=Winners: 1983 - 26th Annual Grammy Awards |url=http://www.grammy.com/nominees/search?artist=&title=&year=1983&genre=All |access-date=April 13, 2015}} It was Murray's fourth career Grammy honor. The song was also named the Country Music Association's Single of the Year.{{cite web |publisher=Country Music Association |title=CMA Awards: Past Winners Lists |url=http://www.cmaworld.com/cma-awards/nominees/past-winners |access-date=April 13, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140331023928/http://www.cmaworld.com/cma-awards/nominees/past-winners/ |archive-date=March 31, 2014 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }}
See also
References
External links
- {{YouTube|iV8KpnvhLCo|Anne Murray - A Little Good News}}
{{Anne Murray}}
{{CMA Single of the Year}}
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Category:Songs written by Rory Bourke
Category:Song recordings produced by Jim Ed Norman
Category:Capitol Records singles
Category:Songs written by Charlie Black
Category:Songs written by Tommy Rocco
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