Stand Tall

Album: Burton Cummings (1976)
Charted: 10
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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!

Comments: 4

  • Greg Martell from Sacramento CaI saw the Guess Who in concert years ago. Burton Cummings has an amazing voice. Absolutely incredible!
  • Ben G from Swedesboro NjGreat song. Awesome voice!
  • Arlyce Hopkins from 98270This song is absolutely gobsmacking!
  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn January 9th 1977, "Stand Tall" by Burton Cummings peaked at #10 (for 2 weeks) on Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart; it had entered the chart on October 3rd, 1976 and spent 21 weeks on the Top 100...
    It reached #1 on the Canadian Adult Contemporary Tracks chart...
    Mr. Cummings celebrated his 66th birthday nine days ago on December 31st (2013).
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