"Indiana Wants Me," R. Dean Taylor (1970)
A masterfully mournful murder ballad
Peak: #5 on the Hot 100
Streams: 4.9 million
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Emotionally, the murderer in this song will sneak up on you. When we meet the narrator of R. Dean Taylor’s only hit, he’s talking to his lady, explaining that he can’t see her because “Indiana wants me. In other words, the Indiana…
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