Friday Night Blues

"Friday Night Blues" is a song written by Sonny Throckmorton and Rafe VanHoy and originally recorded by Throckmorton, whose version of the song went to No. 89 on the Hot Country Songs charts in 1980, released on Mercury Records with "It Always Rains on Me" on the B-side.[1]

"Friday Night Blues"
Single by John Conlee
from the album Friday Night Blues
B-side"When I'm Out of You"
ReleasedMay 3, 1980
GenreCountry
Length3:18
LabelMCA
Songwriter(s)Sonny Throckmorton
Rafe VanHoy
Producer(s)Bud Logan
John Conlee singles chronology
"Baby, You're Something"
(1979)		 "Friday Night Blues"
(1980)		 "She Can't Say That Anymore"
(1980)

Only one month after Throckmorton's version charted, John Conlee released his own rendition of the song, from his album of the same name for MCA Records. Conlee's version charted at No. 2 on Hot Country Songs.[2] Conlee's version of the song was the first credit for session guitarist Brent Rowan, who soon became the only guitarist that Conlee used under the production of Bud Logan.[3]

Content

The couple at the focus of this song is living in a relationship in which the husband has been on the road all week on business and his wife is a homemaker. He is tired out when he arrives home on Friday afternoon. He wants to sit on the couch, watch the 6:00 news, and relax. Meanwhile, his wife is getting dressed for a night out on the town. They have different ideas about what Friday should be. The wife's feelings of loneliness for her oft-absent husband build through the week, as she converses with a neighbor about married life. We assume that the husband is a good provider for them, though work pulls him away a lot.

Chart performance
Chart (1980) Peak
position
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)[4] 2
Canadian RPM Country Tracks 3

References
  1. Whitburn, Joel (2008). Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008. Record Research, Inc. p. 420. ISBN 0-89820-177-2.
  2. Whitburn, p. 102
  3. Seida, Linda. "Brent Rowan biography". Retrieved 6 March 2012.
  4. "John Conlee Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.


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