The Bellamys led off the album with “Forget About Me” (which reached #5 on Billboard’s country singles chart) and “World’s Greatest Lover” (making it to #6), then returned to #1 on April 20, 1985 with “I Need More Of You,” their first chart-topping single in two years.
David had been haunted by the melody for about six months before he composed lyrics to it. When “I Need More Of You” was finished, the song was released overseas first and it turned out to be a top-selling pop record in Europe. Gauging that success prompted Curb to release the song in the United States and it shot to number one on Billboard’s country singles chart, causing label head Jimmy Bowen to jokingly quip, “We’re gonna start using Austria as a test market.”
After “I Need More Of You’s” chart-topping finish, the Bellamys fell into the dreaded “Number Two Curse” for a time as they saw their next three singles stall out in the runner-up position: “Old Hippie” was blocked from the top by Earl Thomas Conley’s “Love Don’t Care (Whose Heart It Breaks)” and Alabama’s “Forty Hour Week (For A Livin’).” “Lie To You For Your Love” was nudged out by another Earl Thomas Conley record, “Nobody Falls Like A Fool.” Lastly, “Feelin’ The Feelin’” was upstaged by, you guessed it – Conley again with “Once In A Blue Moon.”
