October 11, 2024      —–     Chart #267

Hello Music Friends,

Hey folks, welcome to another edition of Chart of the Week. Gonna break for the norm this week and give you a fun country song from 1993. “Blame It on Your Heart” is a song written by Harlan Howard and Kostas and recorded by American country music artist Patty Loveless. It was released in April 1993 as the first single from her album Only What I Feel. A cover version by Deborah Allen was featured prominently in the 1993 film The Thing Called Love.

David Keith played the ex-boyfriend in the video.

The song and its video describe an ex-boyfriend who has a “lying, cheating, cold dead-beating, two-timing, double-dealing, mean-mistreating, loving” heart that he should blame for whatever backstabbing he gets from any other woman he does to what he did to its narrator.

You gotta love a song with a line like “lying, cheating, cold dead-beating, two-timing, double-dealing, mean-mistreating, loving heart”. Just sayin’

From the movie “The Thing Called Love”: 

The Mavericks put out a great rendition of this tune:

Have fun with this one. The chorus line is bound to raise the corners of your mouth into a smirky smile. Enjoy.

Keep Rockin’,

Stan Bradshaw