Once A Day - Connie Smith
Some songs are written for no reason at all...they just happen! According to Bill Anderson, Connie Smith’s 1964 hit, “Once A Day” was one of those songs!
Bill commented, “I don’t have any idea what prompted me to write that song. But I remember where I wrote the chorus. Back in the days before we started traveling on a bus, I wrote a lot of my songs just going down the road behind the wheel of a car. That’s where a lot of songs came from. I was just driving thru one of the Nashville suburbs. I don’t remember where I’d been or where I was going and I pulled up to a four way stop and that idea just hit me, ”Once a day—all day long-“ and I always try to keep a pencil and a piece of paper close by. And I sat there at that four way stop and wrote a good bit of that song. I think I probably came home and tweaked on it a bit but basically the song just came to me while I was driving down the road. There was no great revelation or inspiration….except that little phrase just came in my mind."
“Once A Day” entered the country music charts September 26th, 1964 and made it to number one, where it stuck for eight weeks.
The RCA Victor single was Connie Smith’s first charted song and was on the charts for 28 weeks.
