Chuck Wicks - "All I Ever Wanted"

[rowdawg21]

"All I Ever Wanted"
Writers: Chuck Wicks/Monty Powell/Anna Wilson

Single Release Date: March 25, 2008
Single Add Date: April 14, 2008

Audio: wm.allaccess.com/allaccess/chucalli.wma
Video: www.cmt.com/sitewide/apps/mediaplayer/index.jhtml?vid=254079

Billboard Chart Peak: #14

Lyrics:

Girl you got me going
Yeah I think you know it
Oh I’m ready for this ride
So come on take my hand
Cause only you, you understand
How to kick this feeling into

Drive all night with me
Sing my favorite song and sleep
Under the stars on the hood of our car
It’s all I’ve ever wanted
All I ever wanted was to
See you in the pale moon light
Just the way you look tonight
And maybe some day
If love comes our way
We’ll be walking in the meadow in the early spring
You’ll be twirling in a sundress wearing my ring
Can you see it
Girl I believe em that
It’s true
All I ever wanted
All I ever really wanted was you

If life is what you make it
Here’s my chance I'll take it
You know I wanna make you mine
I have this picture in my mind
You were in it all the time
So baby hold on tight

And drive all night with me
Sing my favorite song and sleep
Under the stars on the hood of our car
It’s all I’ve ever wanted
All I ever wanted was to
See you in the pale moon light
Just the way ya look tonight
And maybe some day
If love comes our way
We’ll be walking in the meadow in the early spring
You’ll be twirling in a sundress wearing my ring
Can you see it
Girl I believe em that
It’s true
All I ever wanted
All I ever really wanted was you

All I ever wanted
Was to see you in the pale moon light
Just the way you look tonight
And maybe some day
If love comes our way
We’ll be walking in the meadow in the early spring
You’ll be twirling in a sundress wearing my ring
Can you see it
Girl I believe em that
It’s true
All I ever wanted
All I ever really wanted was you

My Comments:
I think this is a good choice. It probably won't do as well as "Stealing Cinderella," but I think it can make the top 20.

[Dustin J.]

Agreed, great choice. The first time I heard this I thought it was primed and to make a run on the radio. Probably peaking in late summer, this mid/up-tempo song has a good chance to go top 10.

[zaclord]

YAY! my favorite song on the album... MILES better than the copycat "Stealing Cinderella". hopefully this will do well

[kevin59]

Listen to Song

wm.allaccess.com/allaccess/chucalli.wma

[musicbuff78]

Good song. Only song I really can't stand on the album is Stealing Cinderella.

[bigbluenote]

Mar 25, 2008 18:50:54 GMT -5 musicbuff78 said:

Good song. Only song I really can't stand on the album is Stealing Cinderella.

Yeah, I can't stand that song either. So I haven't even considered looking into the album, much less buying it. Is it any good?

[zaclord]

not really. there is just a few good songs on it. this one is one of the few

[musicbuff78]

It's ok. Nothing I would buy but he sounds much better on all the other songs.

[kw9461]

It's a decent enough song, but I'm not sure it's a great fit for his vocal range. His best performances on the album came when he could really belt out the chorus (Starting Now, What If You Stay, ect). But, anything is better than Stealing Cinderella, so I'm not too disappointed.

[austin]

I didn't even listen to this because I hated "Stealing Cinderella" so much, but I heard this on the radio and I LOVED it. Great tune. Definitely headed for atleast Top 15, too.

[kw9461]

Jun 17, 2008 19:53:03 GMT -5 austin said:

I didn't even listen to this because I hated "Stealing Cinderella" so much, but I heard this on the radio and I LOVED it. Great tune. Definitely headed for atleast Top 15, too.

I agree. It took a few listens for me to warm up to this, but I'm really liking it now.

[countryqueen]

i love this song!!! much better than stealing cinderella! :)

[rockingcountry]

I really like this song and hope Chuck has a huge hit with it.

[Ten Pound Hammer]

I like the lyrics, but his voice just doesn't fit the song too well. He sounds a little uncomfortable with it.

[bamafan2102]

I HATED Staling Cinderella with a passion and this new song is one of my favorites out right now. I can't listen to it enough. I have the album but I haven't given it a listen yet. I can't think of another artist who's first two singles have been so different to me. I can see this being a top 10 at least if everything falls just right.

[Ten Pound Hammer]

Jul 2, 2008 19:23:00 GMT -5 bamafan2102 said:

I HATED Staling Cinderella with a passion and this new song is one of my favorites out right now.

I liked "Stealing Cinderella" but I can see why so many people hate it. Wicks kind of reminds me of Michael Peterson vocally -- he sounds a little whiny and uncomfortable at times, but still comes across as friendly sounding.

Jul 2, 2008 19:23:00 GMT -5 bamafan2102 said:

I can't think of another artist who's first two singles have been so different to me.

The first act I thought of was Jamey Johnson, who started out with the stone-country stylings of "The Dollar", and then jumped straight into Trace Adkins territory with "Rebelicious". (What? I liked it.) Or maybe Cowboy Troy with "I Play Chicken with the Train" and then "If You Don't Wanna Love Me". (I've said it before: If you hate Cowboy Troy, give that song a listen. He may rap it, but the emotions in the song are really something else.)

Big & Rich probably gets the stylistic contrast award, though, by bringing something different to the table with nearly every song. Starting off with a bombastic, minor-key up-tempo with vivid Western imagery (the sorely overlooked "Wild West Show", one of my all time favorites*), then travel all over the musical map, releasing everything from the true bizarreness of "Save a Horse (Ride a Cowboy)" or "Comin' to Your City" (a little bang in your yin-yang, indeed) to such powerful ballads as "8th of November" and "Holy Water" ... to the boring , clumsily-written"Between Raising Hell and Amazing Grace" and the borderline cliché "Loud". Come on, guys, what's happening here?

*Did "Wild West Show" get yanked early? It seemed to plummet its last 3-4 weeks on the chart.

[rowdawg21]

This is doing pretty well for Chuck. It's sitting at #14 after 23 weeks, and it looks like it could move up to #13 next week. I'm not sure it will make the top 10 with all the singles from big stars storming up the chart, but I'd say this has been a successful second single.

[cufan7]

I hear it all the time, I really like it!

[tigers19]

love this song, hope it does well for him.

[avalyn]

I was convinced I hadn't been hearing this song until yesterday. Turns out I have been, I just didn't know the name of the song or who it was by because most of the time it was sandwiched between songs so there was no intro of the song going in or one going out of it. I loved Stealing Cinderella, I might be one of the few, and I love this song a lot. I hope it does well for him.

[S4C]

This has really grown on me lately. Like crazy. A lot better than Stealing Cinderella, IMO. It's just got a cool, relaxed feel to it.

[Ten Pound Hammer]

Oct 2, 2008 18:55:52 GMT -5 S4C said:

This has really grown on me lately. Like crazy. A lot better than Stealing Cinderella, IMO. It's just got a cool, relaxed feel to it.

I think it's just an average song by a singer who sounds uncomfortable with it as I've said before. His voice sounds stiff in parts (especially the last "all I ever really wanted"). It's a B- song in my book.

[someguy]

Oct 2, 2008 18:55:52 GMT -5 S4C said:

This has really grown on me lately. Like crazy. A lot better than Stealing Cinderella, IMO. It's just got a cool, relaxed feel to it.

I agree. I thought "Stealing Cinderella" was pretty corny, but I like this song a lot.

[nncountrykid]

I'll go ahead and say this song is doing well IN SPITE of Stealing Cinderella, not because of it.

Congrats Chuck.

[flattlinesnoodle]

This is probably one of my favorites on the CD-- and I still think he tends to sound a lot like Jason Sellers.