R.I.P Hal Kechum

[George Strait Junkie]

2020 has clammed another great. As alzheimer's witch, I didn't even know he was battling took him. Well my morning is shot straight to hell. Im blasting him out all day in remembrance.

here's some of his big hits

[CoJoFan]

Married the love of my life this past October. She has green eyes and every time I hear "I Know Where Love Lives" (my favorite Hal song) it makes me think of my wife. She also has brown hair so the chestnut hair line fits my wife to a T as well. Hal was the Kip Moore of the 90's in my opinion. Highly underrated artist that never had hardly any big hits. Here's all of Hal's 13 top 40 singles with peak positions from Joel Whitburn's book.


1. Small Town Saturday Night #2 on 5/11/91
2. I Know Where Love Lives #13 on 10/26/91
3. Past The Point Of Rescue #2 on 2/15/92 (his biggest hit according to Joel)
4. Five O' Clock World #16 on 5/30/92
5. Sure Love #3 on 9/26/92
6. Hearts Are Gonna Roll #2 on 2/20/93
7. Mama Knows The Highway #8 on 6/19/93
8. Someplace Far Away (Careful What You're Dreaming) #24 on 10/9/93
9. (Tonight We Just Might) Fall In Love Again #20 on 4/23/94
10. That's What I Get For Losin' You #22 on 9/24/94
11. Stay Forever #8 on 2/11/95
12. I Saw The Light #36 on 2/28/98
13. She Is #40 on 12/2/00

[onebuffalo]

Nov 24, 2020 15:04:10 GMT -5 CoJoFan said:

Married the love of my life this past October. She has green eyes and every time I hear "I Know Where Love Lives" (my favorite Hal song) it makes me think of my wife. She also has brown hair so the chestnut hair line fits my wife to a T as well. Hal was the Kip Moore of the 90's in my opinion. Highly underrated artist that never had hardly any big hits. Here's all of Hal's 13 top 40 singles with peak positions from Joel Whitburn's book.


1. Small Town Saturday Night #2 on 5/11/91
2. I Know Where Love Lives #13 on 10/26/91
3. Past The Point Of Rescue #2 on 2/15/92 (his biggest hit according to Joel)
4. Five O' Clock World #16 on 5/30/92
5. Sure Love #3 on 9/26/92
6. Hearts Are Gonna Roll #2 on 2/20/93
7. Mama Knows The Highway #8 on 6/19/93
8. Someplace Far Away (Careful What You're Dreaming) #24 on 10/9/93
9. (Tonight We Just Might) Fall In Love Again #20 on 4/23/94
10. That's What I Get For Losin' You #22 on 9/24/94
11. Stay Forever #8 on 2/11/95
12. I Saw The Light #36 on 2/28/98
13. She Is #40 on 12/2/00

We lost another great one in Hal Ketchum. I had declared Hearts Are Gonna Roll as his biggest #2 hit earlier this year. Here is my post:

Jun 29, 2020 15:00:20 GMT -5 onebuffalo said:

Hal Ketchum has a trio of #2 hits. They are:

1. Small Town Saturday Night-1991
2. Past The Point Of Rescue-1992
3. Hearts Are Gonna Roll-1993

All spent a week in the runner up position. However, titles #2 and #3 spent the most time in the top 40 at 17 weeks, so let us break the tie by personal preference. That goes to Hearts Are Gonna Roll. That came from his 1992 album, Sure Love. The title track was the lead single. Released late in 1992, it peaked at #3 in early 1993. The second single, Hearts Are Gonna Roll was released in February. It became Ketchum's third #2 hit and could not topple Tracy Lawrence's Alibis from the top spot in May. Two more singles were released that year: Mama Knows The Highway (#8) and Someplace Far Away Careful What You're Dreamin' (#24).

Artist-Hal Ketchum
Single-Hearts Are Gonna Roll
Writers-Hal Ketchum and Ronny Scaife
Producers-Allen Reynolds and Jim Rooney
Album-Sure Love
Label-Curb
Year Released-1993
Billboard Peak-#2

BILLBOARD TOP TEN FOR WEEK ENDING MAY 8, 1993:
1. Alibis-Tracy Lawrence-Atlantic
2. HEARTS ARE GONNA ROLL-HAL KETCHUM-CURB
3. Tender Moment-Lee Roy Parnell-Arista
4. I Love The Way You Love Me-John Michael Montgomery-Atlantic
5. Tonight I Climbed The Wall-Alan Jackson-Arista
6. She Don't Know She's Beautiful-Sammy Kershaw-Mercury
7. My Blue Angel-Aaron Tippin-RCA
8. Made For Lovin' You-Doug Stone-Epic
9. Born To Love You-Mark Collie-MCA
10. Ain't That Lonely Yet-Dwight Yoakam-Reprise

[castleoblivion26]

oh I was not prepared to read this :( He is easily one of my favorites from the 90s. Knew it was coming due to the Alzheimer diagnosis but still sad :(

[CoJoFan]

Nov 24, 2020 19:40:56 GMT -5 onebuffalo said:

Nov 24, 2020 15:04:10 GMT -5 CoJoFan said:

Married the love of my life this past October. She has green eyes and every time I hear "I Know Where Love Lives" (my favorite Hal song) it makes me think of my wife. She also has brown hair so the chestnut hair line fits my wife to a T as well. Hal was the Kip Moore of the 90's in my opinion. Highly underrated artist that never had hardly any big hits. Here's all of Hal's 13 top 40 singles with peak positions from Joel Whitburn's book.


1. Small Town Saturday Night #2 on 5/11/91
2. I Know Where Love Lives #13 on 10/26/91
3. Past The Point Of Rescue #2 on 2/15/92 (his biggest hit according to Joel)
4. Five O' Clock World #16 on 5/30/92
5. Sure Love #3 on 9/26/92
6. Hearts Are Gonna Roll #2 on 2/20/93
7. Mama Knows The Highway #8 on 6/19/93
8. Someplace Far Away (Careful What You're Dreaming) #24 on 10/9/93
9. (Tonight We Just Might) Fall In Love Again #20 on 4/23/94
10. That's What I Get For Losin' You #22 on 9/24/94
11. Stay Forever #8 on 2/11/95
12. I Saw The Light #36 on 2/28/98
13. She Is #40 on 12/2/00

We lost another great one in Hal Ketchum. I had declared Hearts Are Gonna Roll as his biggest #2 hit earlier this year. Here is my post:

Jun 29, 2020 15:00:20 GMT -5 onebuffalo said:

Hal Ketchum has a trio of #2 hits. They are:

1. Small Town Saturday Night-1991
2. Past The Point Of Rescue-1992
3. Hearts Are Gonna Roll-1993

All spent a week in the runner up position. However, titles #2 and #3 spent the most time in the top 40 at 17 weeks, so let us break the tie by personal preference. That goes to Hearts Are Gonna Roll. That came from his 1992 album, Sure Love. The title track was the lead single. Released late in 1992, it peaked at #3 in early 1993. The second single, Hearts Are Gonna Roll was released in February. It became Ketchum's third #2 hit and could not topple Tracy Lawrence's Alibis from the top spot in May. Two more singles were released that year: Mama Knows The Highway (#8) and Someplace Far Away Careful What You're Dreamin' (#24).

Artist-Hal Ketchum
Single-Hearts Are Gonna Roll
Writers-Hal Ketchum and Ronny Scaife
Producers-Allen Reynolds and Jim Rooney
Album-Sure Love
Label-Curb
Year Released-1993
Billboard Peak-#2

BILLBOARD TOP TEN FOR WEEK ENDING MAY 8, 1993:
1. Alibis-Tracy Lawrence-Atlantic
2. HEARTS ARE GONNA ROLL-HAL KETCHUM-CURB
3. Tender Moment-Lee Roy Parnell-Arista
4. I Love The Way You Love Me-John Michael Montgomery-Atlantic
5. Tonight I Climbed The Wall-Alan Jackson-Arista
6. She Don't Know She's Beautiful-Sammy Kershaw-Mercury
7. My Blue Angel-Aaron Tippin-RCA
8. Made For Lovin' You-Doug Stone-Epic
9. Born To Love You-Mark Collie-MCA
10. Ain't That Lonely Yet-Dwight Yoakam-Reprise

I’d have to look but I believe Past The Point Of Rescue spent more weeks in the top 10 is why Joel placed it ahead of Hearts Are Gonna Roll. They both spent 20 chart weeks total on the chart.

[davidcountry]

Is this just for Billboard Hot 50 country? I think "Small Town Saturday Night" was a number 1 country airplay song. What shows there is the chart now known as Hot Country chart. That includes song sales and all that. The Airplay was like number 1 which might be why the song is placed first on the radio airplay chart success. It is the song that a lot of people placed him to the song than any other songs.

[rbundy1987]

Nov 25, 2020 22:47:41 GMT -5 davidcountry said:

Is this just for Billboard Hot 50 country? I think "Small Town Saturday Night" was a number 1 country airplay song. What shows there is the chart now known as Hot Country chart. That includes song sales and all that. The Airplay was like number 1 which might be why the song is placed first on the radio airplay chart success. It is the song that a lot of people placed him to the song than any other songs.

"Small Town Saturday Night" was a #1 hit BUT not for Billboard. It was a Radio & Records #1 for Country back in 1991 and was his only #1.

[LBTrocks]

Very sad! "Past The Point of Rescue" is one of my favorites.

[davidcountry]

Nov 25, 2020 23:03:24 GMT -5 rbundy1987 said:

Nov 25, 2020 22:47:41 GMT -5 davidcountry said:

Is this just for Billboard Hot 50 country? I think "Small Town Saturday Night" was a number 1 country airplay song. What shows there is the chart now known as Hot Country chart. That includes song sales and all that. The Airplay was like number 1 which might be why the song is placed first on the radio airplay chart success. It is the song that a lot of people placed him to the song than any other songs.

"Small Town Saturday Night" was a #1 hit BUT not for Billboard. It was a Radio & Records #1 for Country back in 1991 and was his only #1.

Neilson owned both R&R and Billboard. When R&R closed down? The link for songs Going For Adds on their website linked to Billboard paid part back then. So, R&R is now Billboard.

[castleoblivion26]

Nov 26, 2020 20:48:11 GMT -5 davidcountry said:

Nov 25, 2020 23:03:24 GMT -5 rbundy1987 said:

"Small Town Saturday Night" was a #1 hit BUT not for Billboard. It was a Radio & Records #1 for Country back in 1991 and was his only #1.

Neilson owned both R&R and Billboard. When R&R closed down? The link for songs Going For Adds on their website linked to Billboard paid part back then. So, R&R is now Billboard.

R&R may have been owned by the same company that owned Billboard but that doesn't mean any songs that hit #1 on R@R are now Billboard #1s. Also R&R used Mediabase charts for its chart which means that "Small Town Saturday Night" was a mediabase #1

[CoJoFan]

Nov 25, 2020 23:03:24 GMT -5 rbundy1987 said:

Nov 25, 2020 22:47:41 GMT -5 davidcountry said:

Is this just for Billboard Hot 50 country? I think "Small Town Saturday Night" was a number 1 country airplay song. What shows there is the chart now known as Hot Country chart. That includes song sales and all that. The Airplay was like number 1 which might be why the song is placed first on the radio airplay chart success. It is the song that a lot of people placed him to the song than any other songs.

"Small Town Saturday Night" was a #1 hit BUT not for Billboard. It was a Radio & Records #1 for Country back in 1991 and was his only #1.

Radio & Records is the now Mediabase chart so no Hal never had any #1 singles.

[rbundy1987]

Can someone fix the title of the subject by fixing Ketchum's last name?