Golden Tears
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{{Infobox song
| name = Golden Tears
| cover =
| alt =
| type = single
| artist = Dave & Sugar
| album = Stay with Me/Golden Tears
| B-side = Feel Like a Little Love
| released = January 1979
| recorded = 1978
| studio =
| venue =
| genre = Country
| length = 2:28
| label = RCA
11427
| writer = John Schweers
| producer = Jerry Bradley and Dave Rowland
| prev_title = Tear Time
| prev_year = 1978
| next_title = Stay with Me
| next_year = 1979
}}
"Golden Tears" is a song written by John Schweers, and recorded by American country music trio Dave & Sugar (Dave Rowland, Etta Britt). It was released in January 1979 as the first single and partial title track from the album Stay with me/Golden Tears. The song was the group's third and final No. 1 hit on the Billboard magazine Hot Country Singles chart.{{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=416}} The song was Dave & Sugar's only multi-week chart-topper, spending three at No. 1 in March. The trio enjoyed several more top 10 singles thereafter before beginning to fade in popularity during the early 1980s.
Background
Country music journalist Tom Roland called "Golden Tears" a "highly coincidental release." Dave & Sugar frontman Dave Rowland, it seemed, had driven Chevrolets for most of his life, including the early period of Dave & Sugar's national success. However, Rowland had just purchased a new Lincoln when he heard the demo tape for the song. The song's first line in the refrain: "From a Chevy to a Lincoln ... .""The Billboard Book of Number One Country Hits" (Billboard Books, Watson-Guptill Publications, New York, 1991 ({{ISBN|0-82-307553-2}})), p. 228-229.
Content
Chart performance
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!align="left"|Chart (1979) !align="center"|Peak |
| {{singlechart|Billboardcountrysongs|1|artist=Dave & Sugar}} |
| align="left"|Canadian RPM Country Tracks
|align="center"|2 |
References
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- [{{Allmusic|class=song|id=t2402108|pure_url=yes}} Allmusic — Golden Tears by Dave & Sugar].
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Category:Songs written by John Schweers
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