"Tall Dark Stranger" is a song written and recorded by

Buck Owens Alvis Edgar "Buck" Owens Jr. (August 12, 1929 – March 25, 2006) was an American musician, singer, and songwriter. He was the frontman for The Buckaroos, which had 21 No. 1 hits on the ''Billboard'' country music chart. He pioneered what came ...

, released as a single in 1969. "Tall Dark Stranger" was Buck Owens' twentieth number one on the country chart, spending one week at the top and a total of thirteen weeks on the charts.

Chart performance

Music Video

A video for the song was taped for the TV series ''

Hee Haw ''Hee Haw'' is an American television variety show featuring country music and humor with the fictional rural "Kornfield Kounty" as the backdrop. It aired from 1969 to 1993, and on TNN from 1996 to 1997. Reruns of the series were broadcast on ...

'', on which Owens was a co-host. The video is set in a wild west town, and during the musical bridge the song's main theme – a handsome stranger, tall and dressed in black clothing, stealing the heart of a young man's girlfriend and the woman riding off with him – is played out, said incident happening as Owens (cast as the protagonist) and the woman are walking out of a saloon. The video has since aired on

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and CMT.

References

Buck Owens songs 1969 singles Songs written by Buck Owens Song recordings produced by Ken Nelson (American record producer) Capitol Records singles 1969 songs {{1960s-country-song-stub