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I Was Blown Away

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"I Was Blown Away"

from the album Sweetheart's Dance

"Calico Plains"

Released

March 11, 1995

Length

2:45

Pam Tillis, Steve Fishell

Pam Tillis singles chronology

"I Was Blown Away"
(1995)

"I Was Blown Away" is a song written by Layng Martine Jr., and recorded by American country music artist Pam Tillis. It was released in March 1995 as the fourth single from the album Sweetheart's Dance. The song reached #16 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.^[1]

Content[edit]

Tillis withdrew the song after receiving letters from families of victims of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.^[2]

An uncredited review in Billboard said that "She sings her heart out, but not even she can hold up this cliché-ridden song."^[3]

Chart (1995)	Peak position
Canada Country Tracks (RPM)^[4]	20
USHot Country Songs (Billboard)^[5]	16

^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 348.

^ "Arts beat". The Dallas Morning News. 27 April 1995. Retrieved 16 July 2012.

^ "Reviews". Billboard: 67. 4 March 1995.

v t e Pam Tillis
Discography
Studio albums	Above and Beyond the Doll of Cutey Put Yourself in My Place Homeward Looking Angel Sweetheart's Dance All of This Love Every Time Thunder & Roses It's All Relative: Tillis Sings Tillis RhineStoned Just in Time for Christmas Dos Divas
Compilation albums	Collection Greatest Hits
Songs	"One of Those Things" "Those Memories of You" "Don't Tell Me What to Do" "Put Yourself in My Place" "Maybe It Was Memphis" "Blue Rose Is" "Shake the Sugar Tree" "Let That Pony Run" "Cleopatra, Queen of Denial" "Do You Know Where Your Man Is" "Spilled Perfume" "When You Walk in the Room" "Mi Vida Loca (My Crazy Life)" "I Was Blown Away" "In Between Dances" "Deep Down" "The River and the Highway" "It's Lonely Out There" "All the Good Ones Are Gone" "Land of the Living" "I Said a Prayer" "Every Time" "Please" "Ancient History" "Five Minutes" "Someone Else's Trouble Now"
See also	Mel Tillis

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