Some Beach
{{Infobox song
| name = Some Beach
| cover = Blake Shelton Single.jpg
| alt =
| type = single
| artist = Blake Shelton
| album = Blake Shelton's Barn & Grill
| released = {{Start date|2004|07|26}}
| recorded = 2004
| studio =
| venue =
| genre = Country
| length = 3:24
| label = Warner Bros. Nashville
| writer = Rory Feek
Paul Overstreet
| producer = Bobby Braddock
| prev_title = When Somebody Knows You That Well
| prev_year = 2004
| next_title = Goodbye Time
| next_year = 2005
}}
"Some Beach" is a song written by Rory Feek and Paul Overstreet and recorded by American country music artist Blake Shelton. It was released in July 2004 as the second single from Shelton's 2004 album Blake Shelton's Barn & Grill. The song became Shelton's third number one hit on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs chart and spent four weeks at that position.
Content
The narrator deals with frustrations, such as being flipped off in traffic on the highway and having to wait all afternoon at the dentist's office, by wishing that he were "on some beach, somewhere." The song's title is a double entendre, playing on a Southern United States dialectal form of the epithet "son of a bitch" ("som' bitch").{{cite book|last=Golightly|first=Richard Kent|title=On Garbled English|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ihVbHy7uPeMC&q=%22blake+shelton%22+%22some+beach%22&pg=PA2|year=2008|publisher=AuthorHouse|isbn=978-1-4343-2344-6|pages=2–3}}
Music video
The music video was directed by Peter Zavadil, and features Shelton driving a pickup truck down a freeway, trying to park the truck, and going to the dentist. The video premiered on CMT on July 29, 2004, and featuring NASCAR driver Elliott Sadler.
Chart performance
"Some Beach" debuted at number 51 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs for the chart week of August 7, 2004.
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!align="left"|Chart (2004–2005) !align="center"|Peak |
| align="left"|Canada Country (Radio & Records)[https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-RandR/2000s/2004/RR-2004-12-17.pdf Radio & Records: December 17, 2004, page 44] worldradiohistory.com
|align="center"|3 |
| {{singlechart|Billboardhot100|28|artist=Blake Shelton|artistid=444576|accessdate=January 29, 2011}} |
| {{singlechart|Billboardcountrysongs|1|artist=Blake Shelton|artistid=444576|accessdate=January 29, 2011}} |
=Year-end charts=
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| scope="col"|Chart (2005)
!scope="col"|Position |
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| US Country Songs (Billboard){{Cite web | url=http://www.billboard.com/charts/year-end/2005/hot-country-songs| title=Best of 2005: Country Songs | work=Billboard | publisher=Prometheus Global Media | date=2005| accessdate=June 16, 2012}}
| align="center" | 28 |
Certifications
{{Certification Table Top}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=United States|type=single|award=Platinum|artist=Blake Shelton|title=Some Beach|relyear=2004|certyear=2021|accessdate=October 10, 2021}}
{{Certification Table Bottom|streaming=true|nosales=true|noshipments=true}}
References
{{reflist}}
External links
- {{YouTube|JTT2LEyjdC4|Some Beach}}
{{Blake Shelton songs}}
Category:Warner Records Nashville singles
Category:Songs written by Paul Overstreet
Category:Songs written by Rory Feek
Category:Music videos directed by Peter Zavadil
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