{"id":75527,"date":"2025-12-23T23:46:28","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T02:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubirataonline.com.br\/garth-brooks-signature-hit-was-rejected-by-more-than-20-songwriters\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T23:46:28","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T02:46:28","slug":"garth-brooks-signature-hit-was-rejected-by-more-than-20-songwriters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubirataonline.com.br\/en\/garth-brooks-signature-hit-was-rejected-by-more-than-20-songwriters\/","title":{"rendered":"Garth Brooks\u2019 &#8216;Signature&#8217; Hit Was Rejected by More Than 20 Songwriters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/music\/articles\/garth-brooks-most-emotional-song-115125419.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Garth Brooks;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\">Garth Brooks<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0went through more than 20 songwriters before landing on the one that would help to write his &#8220;signature&#8221; hit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to <a href=\"https:\/\/americansongwriter.com\/on-this-day-in-1989-garth-brooks-released-his-first-no-1-a-signature-song-originally-rejected-by-nashville\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:American Songwriter;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">American Songwriter<\/a>, which referenced the liner notes of Brooks&#8217; album <em>The Hits<\/em>, the country legend called &#8220;If Tomorrow Never Comes&#8221; his &#8220;signature song.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;\u2018If Tomorrow Never Comes\u2019 will probably always be my signature song,\u201d Brooks declared. \u201cI ran the idea for this song by what seemed like a thousand writers, and no one really seemed to understand what I was looking for.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He added, &#8220;I passed this idea by [songwriter] <strong>Kent Blazy<\/strong>, and he had the first verse down within 15 seconds,\u201d Brooks said. \u201cI could tell he just felt it. Kent is a wonderful man, full of love and energy. And, if we never write again, I hope that we are always friends first.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>Parade Daily<\/strong><strong>&#x1f3ac; <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/parade.com\/newsletters\/daily?utm_source=article&amp;utm_medium=top\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:SIGN UP for Parade's Daily newsletter to get the latest pop culture news &amp; celebrity interviews delivered right to your inbox;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"><strong>SIGN UP for Parade&#8217;s Daily newsletter to get the latest pop culture news &amp; celebrity interviews delivered right to your inbox<\/strong><\/a><strong> &#x1f3ac;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.songwritingmagazine.co.uk\/interviews\/if-tomorrow-never-comes-kent-blazy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Songwriting Magazine;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Songwriting Magazine<\/a>, Blazy shared his experience working with Brooks on the tune. He described his friend&#8217;s experience as a long road, with many writers passing on the song before he ultimately worked on it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;He wasn\u2019t Garth Brooks then, but he came in, and he said, \u2018I\u2019ve got this idea I\u2019ve run by 25 writers, and nobody liked it.\u2019 I said, \u2018Well, gee, thanks,\u2019 and he said, \u2018Well, don\u2019t you want to hear it?\u2019 And I said, \u2018Well, yeah, play me what you got.\u2019&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Blazy continued, &#8220;So he played me what he had, and I loved the idea. Because it\u2019s what my mother used to tell me, \u2018Tell the people you love how you feel about them while they\u2019re still alive.\u2019&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He added that the fundamental problem with &#8220;If Tomorrow Never Comes&#8221; was that &#8220;he was killing somebody off in the first couple of lines of the song. It\u2019s like killing off the star of the movie in the first three minutes. There\u2019s nowhere to go.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Blazy concluded, &#8220;So he said, \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/parade.com\/1211362\/marynliles\/hypothetical-questions\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:What would you do;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">What would you do<\/a>?\u2019 And I told him, and we did it. And at the end of the day, we both thought we had a really good song.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Garth Brooks&#8217; &#8220;If Tomorrow Never Comes&#8221; reached the top spot on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/pro\/garth-brooks-if-tomorrow-never-comes-rewinding-the-country-charts-1989\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Billboard;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Billboard<\/a>&#8216;s Hot Country Songs chart on Dec. 9, 1989, marking his first No. 1 hit from his first album, <em>Garth Brooks<\/em>. His follow-up? A second No. 1, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/music\/articles\/garth-brooks-tearjerker-might-saddest-110004445.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:a tearjerker;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\">a tearjerker<\/a>, &#8220;The Dance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><i>This story was originally published by <a href=\"https:\/\/parade.com\/news\/garth-brooks-signature-hit-rejected-by-more-than-20-songwriters-if-tomorrow-never-comes\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Parade;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Parade<\/a> on Dec 20, 2025, where it first appeared in the <a href=\"https:\/\/parade.com\/news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:News;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">News<\/a> section. 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