Kick a Little (song)
| "Kick a Little" | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Single by Little Texas | ||||
| from the album Kick a Little | ||||
| B-side | "Hit Country Song"[2] | |||
| Released | August 16, 1994[1] | |||
| Recorded | 1994 | |||
| Genre | Country | |||
| Length | 3:42 | |||
| Label | Warner Bros. Nashville 18103 | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Porter Howell, Dwayne O'Brien, Brady Seals[3] | |||
| Producer(s) | Little Texas, Christy Dinapoli, Doug Grau[3] | |||
| Little Texas singles chronology | ||||
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"Kick a Little" is a song performed by American country music group Little Texas. It was released in August 1994 as the first single and title track from their album of the same name. It was their tenth single overall, and has become one of their signature songs. It was written by the band's chief songwriters: lead guitarist Porter Howell, guitarist Dwayne O'Brien and keyboardist and vocalist Brady Seals. The song reached #5 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart and #4 on the Canadian RPM country tracks chart.
Content
"Kick a Little" is an up-tempo song sung by former lead singer Tim Rushlow. Like Aaron Tippin's debut single "You've Got to Stand for Something", the song's narrator imparts the words of his father, who was never the first to fight but was always willing to stand up for what he believed or to defend his family.
Music video
The music video was directed by Jon Small, and premiered on CMT on August 20, 1994. It is a live performance video, and was filmed at the Tennessee Performing Arts Center in Nashville. The video starts with a shot of dark storm clouds. The camera pans to an obese man in a red cap, parking his Volkswagen Bug, saying "Man, it's like there's a storm growing there!", as a flash of lightning appears. As the song starts, it shows the band performing on an empty stage, while being bombarded with debris. During the guitar solo, a really strong tornado and heavy windstorm breaks down the door to meet the band, and the obese man, with a rubber chicken, on stage, where the band continues performing while being bombarded with even more debris. After the song finishes, a skinny man says "Man, that Texas twister sho' can kick!", as an obese man got flown up in the air from him kicking his foot. This was also the band's last music video to feature Brady Seals before he left for a solo career at the end of 1994.
Chart performance
"Kick a Little" debuted at number 68 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks for the week of August 27, 1994.
| Chart (1994) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Canada Country Tracks (RPM)[4] | 4 |
| US Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles (Billboard)[5] | 8 |
| US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)[6] | 5 |
Year-end charts
| Chart (1994) | Position |
|---|---|
| Canada Country Tracks (RPM)[7] | 34 |
References
- ^ http://www.cmt.com/artists/az/little_texas/614207/album.jhtml
- ^ Whitburn, Joel (2008). Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008. Record Research, Inc. p. 242. ISBN 0-89820-177-2.
- ^ a b Kick a Little (CD). Little Texas. Warner Bros. Records. 1994. 206576.
{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link) - ^ "Top RPM Country Tracks: Issue 2653." RPM. Library and Archives Canada. November 14, 1994. Retrieved August 4, 2013.
- ^ "Little Texas Chart History (Bubbling Under Hot 100)". Billboard.
- ^ "Little Texas Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.
- ^ "RPM Top 100 Country Tracks of 1994". RPM. December 12, 1994. Retrieved August 4, 2013.
