Songfacts®:

• This single was Cummings first solo hit after he left The Guess Who, and it was also his biggest hit, reaching #10 on the Billboard Hot 100. It's a breakup song in which a man pines for the woman he tossed aside, and is pleading with her not to hold a grudge and reject him. >>

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  Mike - Santa Barbara, CA
• In fact, this was one of his only two Top 40 Billboard hits solo, and the other one was 1981's "You Saved My Soul," which rode for two weeks at #37. "Stand Tall" kept charting for fifteen weeks.
• You might not know that Burton Cummings is also an avid comic book collector. Or that he's also a restaurateur, having bought the Winnipeg "Salisbury House" restaurant chain.
  
  Cummings is also an unusually web-savvy specimen, with his own website, after having blogged on MySpace for awhile. And you thought MySpacies were all angsty teens!