Flower Top Ten: Sunflower (#9)

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Well hecky dern I’m late! It was a night of rabbit holes and a morning of watching tornado warnings out of Mississippi. So I’m up now, having lunch and watching tornado warnings out of southern Alabama. April showers bring May flowers (and Mayflowers bring pilgrims ), and here’s another song with “flower” in the title. #9: Sunflower - Glen Campbell In the teaser I said there’s be no “You Don’t Bring Me Flowers,” but that didn’t mean there’d be no Neil Diamond. From the “surprise” department, for the second day in a row, will you look at who wrote this song! We go from a hit that was written by a man with his own string of hits (yesterday’s tune, written by John Phillips of the Mamas and Papas) to another hit that was written by a man with his own string of hits! In this case, the great Neil Diamond (who’s already had his own countdown) penned this tune that Glen Campbell had a pretty good-sized hit with. It was top five country and #1 easy listening. It also made the top 40 in the pop charts, although it didn’t do nearly as well as the single before it (“Southern Nights”). And, in another case of songwriters who recorded their own song after it had been a hit for someone else (hmm, sounds like a future countdown to me….), Diamond’s rendition of his own song didn’t see the light of day until a 50th anniversary box set in the 2010s! So Neil did bring us flowers, just not the ones you were probably thinking of. Sunflower Written by Neil Diamond Recorded by Glen Campbell From Southern Nights, 1977 If there’s a chance that romance will find you: