"Tall Dark Stranger" is a song written and recorded by Buck Owens, released as a single in 1969. "Tall Dark Stranger" was Buck Owens' twentieth number one on the country chart, spending one week at the top and a total of thirteen weeks on the charts.[1]
Chart performance
Chart (1969)
Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles
1
Canadian RPM Country Tracks
1
Music Video
A video for the song was taped for the TV series Hee Haw, on which Owens was a co-host. The video is set in a wild west town, and during the musical bridge the song's main theme – a handsome stranger, tall and dressed in black clothing, stealing the heart of a young man's girlfriend and the woman riding off with him – is played out, said incident happening as Owens (cast as the protagonist) and the woman are walking out of a saloon. The video has since aired on Great American Country and CMT.
References
^Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 258.
