Not a Moment Too Soon

A lot of us been there. Off on a wild mission impossible lifestyle, and just when we reach the very end of that line, someone comes along and freed us from the destruction we almsot fell into. "Not A Moment Too Soon" is exactly what we think of when we arrive in these situation. There's really no telling how many time we've come across these situation, and survived every single one of them. The only thing we find ourselves doing, is thanking the one that saved us.

"Not a Moment Too Soon" is what came along when Wayne Perry (hats off to you, may God bless you) and Joe Barnhill collided with each other to write Tim McGraw 4th single, which became #1 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now known as,Hot Country Songs) starting the week on January 14,1995, and spend 2 weeks there. "Not a Moment Too Soon" is also the name of McGraw 2nd album. The song debuted at #61, when it was released October of 1994. The video was produced by Byron Gallimore and James Stroud and was filmed in Crescent City, California (beautiful landscape there).

Wayne was born in 1950, as Darrell "Wayne" Perry, and started his music career in Cincinnati, Ohio early in 1970. During this time, he recorded for Beast Records, before moving to Nashville, Tennessee. Not only was Perry was a co-writer for "Not a Moment Too Soon", but he also co-written Gerald Smith, with Lorrie Morgan's #1 hit single, "What Part Of No". Some other great hits he wrote includes, "I Swear" by John Michael Montgomery, "I'm Already There" by Lonestar, and can also receive credit for George Strait's, "You're Right I'm Wrong". Late in his career, Perry added Pop music to his name when he co-penned for some of the Backstreet Boys (Yes, I'm bringing them up) hits, "You Wrote the Book On Love", "Anywhere For You", and "I'll Be There" (they had some awesome songs out in the 90's, before they became silent in the crowd). Perry had many more unrecorded songs, unfortunately he'll never get to know rather they did any good or not. Why? In December 2002, he was diagnosed with throat cancer (any singer worse nightmare). Following his sister advice, was probably the biggest mistake he ever made. The cancer ended up taken him in 2005. Perry is survived by his 4 children, who sued his sister for wrongdoing, which later, the case was dropped.

Joe Barnhill was born in the great state of Texas. From Turkey, Tx., Barnhill tried his luck with a country music career starting in 1989. From that time to 1997, he had released 2 studio albums, only has 2 known single out, but only "Your Old Flame's Goin' Out Tonight" was his highest chart topping single. Peaking at #56 in 1989. Lucky for him, co-writing, "Not a Moment Too Soon" didn't let him down. Since then, there's really not a whole lot known about what he's doing now.

Congrat to McGraw on his 20th anniversary since "Not a Moment Too Soon" hit #1. McGraw is still touring and releasing music. More about him in the next blog. Until then, here's the video, and Farewell.

Resource:

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_a_Moment_Too_Soon_(song)
• http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=82548732
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Perry_(country_music)
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Barnhill