"My Maria," B.W. Stevenson (1973)
Well, damn: This wasn't a Brooks and Dunn original!
Peak: #9 on the Hot 100
Streams: 9.2 million
As I’ve mentioned in this lil’ newsletter before, I read back issues of Billboard magazine for fun, and if you’d like to be as cool as me, then you can dig through this well-organized archive as you’re winding down your evening. Recently, I was startled to learn that in 1996 Brooks and Dunn were unsure about re…