Although the woman explains that she has limited her grieving to “once a day,” it is later found out that she is grieving, “once a day, every day, all day long.” “Once a Day,” written by Bill Anderson, describes a woman who has not gotten over her previous lover. This blesses me, and I am extremely grateful.”ĭolly Parton once said, “There’s really only three female singers in the world: Streisand, Ronstadt and Connie Smith. But, for ‘Once a Day’ to be recognized by the Library of Congress and to have it listed in the nation’s National Recording Registry is indeed the ultimate honor.
“In the wake of its success, that recording received many honors and the song has endured. “I never dreamed when I walked into RCA’s Studio B in Nashville on July 16, 1964, to make my first record that a song from that session called 'Once a Day' would become a hit,” Smith said. Smith has been called one of the most underrated vocalists in country music history. Smith’s collaboration with country music legend and Neshoba County native Marty Stuart in the 1990s turned romantic, they married and the last few years the Congress of Country Music downtown in the former Ellis has become a project.
That hit song was one of 25 additions to the National Recording Registry at the Library of Congress last month, a prestigious listing that deems treasures worthy of preservation for all time. 1 on the Billboard country singles chart in November 1964 and remained at the top for a record eight weeks, a first then for a female. Connie Smith’s debut single “Once a Day” reached No.
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