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5 unusual facts about Friends In Low Places


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The first song played was Brooks' Friends in Low Places (which was voted #1 country song ever by listeners of the station a few months later), the second was another Brooks song The Dance.

Jim Garver

Garver is credited with naming the bar "The Oaisis" (after a closed establishment in his hometown of Concordia, Kansas) in the song Friends in Low Places made famous by Garth Brooks.

During the recording of the song "Friends in Low Places" for No Fences (1990), the sound of someone opening a beer can was picked up by a microphone, along with someone shouting, "Push, Marie!" in reference to Garver, who was at the hospital with his wife, Marie, while she was giving birth.

Lance Cade and Trevor Murdoch

Following a loss on the April 28 Raw, Murdoch sang a rendition of "Friends in Low Places".

Word painting

A modern example of word painting from the late 20th century occurs in the song "Friends in Low Places" by Garth Brooks.


Bring Forth the Body

Major or minor character in Fielding Gray, The Rich Pay Late, Friends in Low Places, The Judas Boy, Places Where They Sing and Come Like Shadows.

Appeared in Fielding Gray, The Sabre Squadron, The Rich Pay Late, Friends in Low Places, The Judas Boy and Places Where They Sing.

Major or minor character in Fielding Gray, The Sabre Squadron, Friends in Low Places, The Judas Boy, Places Where They Sing and Come Like Shadows.

Appeared in Fielding Gray, The Rich Pay Late, Friends in Low Places, The Judas Boy, Places Where They Sing and Come Like Shadows.

Major and minor character in Fielding Gray, Sound The Retreat, The Sabre Squadron, The Rich Pay Late, Friends in Low Places, The Judas Boy and Come Like Shadows.

Major character in Fielding Gray, Sound The Retreat, The Rich Pay Late and Friends in Low Places.

Come Like Shadows

A major character in Fielding Gray, The Sabre Squadron, Friends In Low Places, The Judas Boy and Places Where They Sing.

No Fences

Some of Brooks most famous songs appear on No Fences, including: "The Thunder Rolls" (CMA's 1991 Video of the Year), "Friends in Low Places" (Academy of Country Music's 1990 Single of the Year), "Unanswered Prayers" and "Two of a Kind, Workin' on a Full House".

Places Where They Sing

A major character in Fielding Gray, The Rich Pay Late, Friends in Low Places and The Judas Boy.

Major character in Fielding Gray, The Sabre Squadron, Friends in Low Places and The Judas Boy.

Appeared in Fielding Gray, The Sabre Squadron, The Rich Pay Late, Friends in Low Places and The Judas Boy.

The Judas Boy

Appeared earlier in The Rich Pay Late and Friends in Low Places.

A major character in Fielding Gray, The Rich Pay Late and Friends in Low Places.

Appeared in The Sabre Squadron, The Rich Pay Late and Friends in Low Places.

Appeared in Fielding Gray, The Sabre Squadron, The Rich Pay Late and Friends in Low Places.

Mentioned in The Sabre Squadron and a major character in Friends in Low Places.

Mentioned in Fielding Gray and The Rich Pay Late and appears in Friends in Low Places.

Appeared in Fielding Gray, The Rich Pay Late and Friends in Low Places.

Appeared in The Rich Pay Late och Friends in Low Places.

Protagonist of Fielding Gray and major character in The Sabre Squadron and Friends in Low Places.

Appeared in The Rich Pay Late and Friends in Low Places.


see also

Come Like Shadows

Major character in The Rich Pay Late, Friends In Low Places, The Judas Boy and Places Where They Sing.

Appeared in The Sabre Squadron, The Rich Pay Late, Friends In Low Placesand The Judas Boy.

WRVF

A few years later the station began stunting by playing "Friends in Low Places" by Garth Brooks with a man with a southern voice announcing that something new was coming to WLQR on Monday.