Fall (song)
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"Fall", written by Clay Mills
Clay Mills
Clayton Bernard "Clay" Mills is an American songwriter. His credits include the #1 hits "Beautiful Mess" by Diamond Rio and "Don't Think I Don't Think About It" by Darius Rucker, which won Mills an award from ASCAP. Other country music artists who have charted with his singles include Andy Griggs...

, Sonny LeMaire, and Shane Minor
Shane Minor
Shane Allen Minor is an American country music artist. Signed to Mercury Nashville Records in 1999, Minor released his self-titled album that year, and it produced three hit singles on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts...

, is the title of a song which has been recorded by both country music
Country music
Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...

 singer Clay Walker
Clay Walker
Ernest Clayton "Clay" Walker Jr. is an American country music artist. He made his debut in 1993 with the single "What's It to You," which reached Number One on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts, as did its follow-up, 1994's "Live Until I Die." Both singles were included on...

 and pop music
Pop music
Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...

 singer Kimberley Locke
Kimberley Locke
Kimberley Dawn Locke is an American singer-songwriter and model. She has recorded in the dance, pop and adult contemporary music genres....

, both of whom are signed to Curb Records
Curb Records
Curb Records is a record label started by Mike Curb originally as Sidewalk Records in 1963...

. Both versions were released within weeks of each other in mid-2007; while Walker's version was released to country radio
Country music
Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...

, Locke's was released to the adult contemporary
Adult contemporary music
Adult contemporary music is a broad style of popular music that ranges from lush 1950s and 1960s vocal music to predominantly ballad-heavy music with varying degrees of rock influence, as well as a radio format that plays such music....

 format. Walker's reached number 5 on the U.S. country singles charts, and Locke's reached Number One on the U.S. Dance charts. Go West
Go West (band)
Go West is an English pop duo, formed in 1982 by lead vocalist and drummer Peter Cox ; and guitarist and vocalist Richard Drummie...

 front man Peter Cox
Peter Cox (musician)
Peter John Cox is an English singer-songwriter, currently the lead singer in Manfred Mann's Earth Band, but is best known as one half of the 1980s blue-eyed soul duo Go West.-Early career and Go West:...

 has recorded a version of "Fall" on his 2010 CD "The S1 Sessions".

Content

"Fall" is a mid-tempo ballad in which the narrator addresses a lover who has had a bad day. The narrator then offers moral support to the lover: "Fall, go on and lose it all / Every doubt, every fear / Every worry, every tear".

Clay Walker version

Walker's version, the first version of the song to be released, was the second single from his 2007 album, which was also titled Fall. A music video was issued on October 17, 2007.

Background

Walked stated that Fall was one of his favorite songs on his album. He also said after recording the track that “Keith stood up and high-fived the engineer when we got done with the vocal and I thought, that’s the first that I’ve ever seen that, maybe he was just glad that I got all the lyrics right, it was refreshing to know there wasn’t a lot of wasted time in the studio with Keith. He knows what he wants and he communicates that with the musicians really well."

In an interview with The Flint Journal Walker said, "'Fall' was a huge hit for us. I think people are going to want to see us and ticket sales are already going up. As long as people want to hear us -- and I feel like they do -- we're going to get out and give it to them."

Reception

Chuck Taylor of Billboard
Billboard (magazine)
Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...

wrote "Walker's rich, confident baritone offers all the more reassurance, as does his self-assured smile". Kevin John Coyne of Country Universe gave the song a B+ rating and wrote, "This is another good single from an artist who has fully come into his own."

Live performances

Walker performed the song on The Montel Williams Show
The Montel Williams Show
The Montel Williams Show is a syndicated talk show hosted by Montel Williams. On January 30, 2008 it was announced that The Montel Williams Show would stop production on new episodes at the end of the 2007-2008 television season after seventeen years...

on April 11th 2008.

Chart performance

His version of the song debuted at #59 on the Hot Country Songs
Hot Country Songs
Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States.This 60-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly mostly by airplay and occasionally commercial sales...

 chart dated April 7, 2007. It charted for 37 weeks and peaked at #5 on the country chart dated November 17, 2007. It became his first Top Ten country hit since "I Can't Sleep
I Can't Sleep (song)
"I Can't Sleep" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music singer Clay Walker. It was released in January 2004 as the second single from his 2003 album, A Few Questions, it peaked at #9 on the Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart, and features Chely Wright on background...

", which reached #9 in late 2003-early 2004. This version also peaked at #56 on the Billboard Hot 100
Billboard Hot 100
The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...

, his first peak on that chart since "I Can't Sleep".

Charts

Chart (2007) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs 5
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 56


Year-end charts

End of year chart (2007) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs 40


Kimberley Locke version

Kimberley Locke
Kimberley Locke
Kimberley Dawn Locke is an American singer-songwriter and model. She has recorded in the dance, pop and adult contemporary music genres....

 covered the song as the third single from her album Based on a True Story
Based on a True Story (Kimberley Locke album)
Based On A True Story is the second album from American Idol finalist, Kimberley Locke. Kimberley chose this title because the songs on the album, 8 of which co-written by Kimberley herself, tell the true story of the emotions she dealt with during and after her relationship with her ex-fiance...

, which was released only 2 weeks after Clay Walker's album. Locke's version was released to AC
Adult contemporary music
Adult contemporary music is a broad style of popular music that ranges from lush 1950s and 1960s vocal music to predominantly ballad-heavy music with varying degrees of rock influence, as well as a radio format that plays such music....

 radio on February 25, 2008, with club remixes following in April.

Billboard
Billboard (magazine)
Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...

reviewed the single as "a stunning showcase for the versatile vocalist" and suggests this may be her most satisfying single yet along with "8th World Wonder
8th World Wonder
"8th World Wonder" is the 2004 debut single from American Idol finalist Kimberley Locke, from her One Love album. The single debuted on the Billboard Singles Sales Chart at #1, making it the first non-Idol single to top the chart from any Idol finalist...

".

Track listings and formats

  • US promotional single - CURBD-2073
  1. "Fall (radio edit) - 3:16

  • US promotional remixes maxi single - CURBD-2087
  1. "Fall" (Bimbo Jones extended mix) - 7:22
  2. "Fall" (Almighty club mix) - 7:03
  3. "Fall" (Piper extended club mix) - 7:48
  4. "Fall" (Scotty K vocal Klub mix) - 6:54
  5. "Fall" (Almighty dub) - 6:40
  6. "Fall" (Bimbo Jones radio edit) - 3:33
  7. "Fall" (Almighty radio edit) - 3:21
  8. "Fall" (Piper radio edit) - 3:53
  9. "Fall" (Scotty K radio edit) - 3:48

  • Digital maxi single / The Radio Edits EP
  1. "Fall" (Bimbo Jones radio edit) - 3:32
  2. "Fall" (Almighty radio edit) - 3:22
  3. "Fall" (Piper radio edit) - 3:53
  4. "Fall" (Scotty K radio edit) - 3:48

  • Digital maxi single / The Extended Mixes EP
  1. "Fall" (Bimbo Jones extended mix) - 7:21
  2. "Fall" (Almighty club mix) - 7:03
  3. "Fall" (Piper extended club mix) - 7:47
  4. "Fall" (Scotty K vocal Klub mix) - 6:54

Chart performance

Chart (2008) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Club Play
Hot Dance Club Play
The Hot Dance Club Songs chart is a weekly national survey of the songs that are most popular in U.S. dance clubs...

1
U.S. Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks
Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks
The Adult Contemporary chart is a weekly chart published in Billboard magazine that lists the most popular songs on adult contemporary and "lite-pop" radio stations in the United States...

17

Chart (2008) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Top AC Songs of 2008
Billboard Year-End
Billboard Year-End charts are a cumulative measure of a single or album's performance in the United States, based upon the Billboard magazine charts during any given chart year. Billboard's "chart year" runs from the first week of December to the final week in November...

33
U.S. Billboard Top Dance Songs of 2008
Billboard Year-End
Billboard Year-End charts are a cumulative measure of a single or album's performance in the United States, based upon the Billboard magazine charts during any given chart year. Billboard's "chart year" runs from the first week of December to the final week in November...

39
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