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Big Wheels in the Moonlight

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"Big Wheels in the Moonlight"
SinglebyDan Seals
from the albumRage On
B-side"Factory Town"[1]
ReleasedSeptember 1988
GenreCountry
Length3:54
LabelCapitol
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Kyle Lehning
Dan Sealssingles chronology
"Addicted"
(1988)
"Big Wheels in the Moonlight"
(1988)
"They Rage On"
(1989)

"Big Wheels in the Moonlight"is a song co-written and recorded by Americancountry musicartistDan Seals.It was released in September 1988 as the second single from Seals' albumRage On.It peaked at number one, his ninth to do so. The song was written by Seals andBob McDill.

Content[edit]

The song—one of many in country music to pay salute to the Americantruck driver—is about a young man's childhood memories of watching semitrailer trucks travel along a nearby highway, listening at night to the roar of the trucks' diesel engines in the distance and dreaming one day of being a truck driver. The dream never comes to pass, as he begins a family and is working at other jobs, but still finds peace in envisioning the trucks in his mind, the trucks illuminated only by their lights and the moonlight of a clear evening.

Music video[edit]

The music video was directed by Neil Abramson, and was one of three videos filmed specially for Seals' 1991 video compilation,A Portrait.

Chart positions[edit]

Chart (1988–1989) Peak
position
USHot Country Songs(Billboard)[2] 1
CanadianRPMCountry Tracks[3] 1

Year-end charts[edit]

Chart (1989) Position
Canada Country Tracks (RPM)[4] 14
USCountry Songs(Billboard)[5] 24

References[edit]

  1. ^Whitburn, Joel (2008).Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008.Record Research, Inc. p. 372.ISBN978-0-89820-177-2.
  2. ^"Dan Seals Chart History (Hot Country Songs)".Billboard.
  3. ^"RPM 100 Country Singles"(PDF).RPM.February 27, 1989.
  4. ^"RPM Top 100 Country Tracks of 1989".RPM.December 23, 1989.RetrievedAugust 28,2013.
  5. ^"Best of 1989: Country Songs".Billboard.Prometheus Global Media.1989.RetrievedAugust 28,2013.