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According to
Bill Anderson, “City Lights” was his first commercially
successful song.
Bill commented:
“I was 19 years old at the time and going to school at The
University Of Georgia. And I was living in a small three story
hotel in Commerce, Georgia. I had gone out on top of the hotel
that night and I was looking down at the lights of the town.
I looked up at the stars that night and the second verse of
the song came to my mind, “The world was dark and God made
stars to brighten up the night.
Did
the God who put those stars above make those city lights?”
“The verse was written as a question. When Ray Price recorded
the song, he changed it but I had asked the question, ‘Could
the same God who made all those stars that were so beautiful
and clean also make all those city lights which sometimes
seemed to be so dirty?’”
“City Lights”
became Ray Prices’ 16th charted song. It made it to number one
in 1958 where it stuck for 13 weeks. It was on the country
charts for 34 weeks. The Columbia Records single also scored a
number 71 on the pop music charts.
Doug Davis
Country Music Classics
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