Just Got Started Lovin' You

Album: Sunset Man (2007)
Charted: 27
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Songfacts®:

  • Otto told "Radio For Humans" about this track: "This song is kind of a real groovy, R&B-feeling song. Like if Ray Charles was doing a modern Country record, it would have that R&B-feel to it, that kind of groove to it. It seems to be appealing to more women than men, which is not a bad thing. Actually the key demographic in Country music is women and all men want to reach women, that's why we play music and buy nice cars and buy nice things, because we want to meet women in the first place. So, I guess it's just a groovy song, it's got a unique feel and kind of a sexy thing and hopefully it reaches them on all those levels."
  • When this topped the Hot Country Songs chart dated for May 17, 2008, Otto became the first artist to score his initial #1 Country hit since Emerson Drive reached the summit for the first time with "Moments" 11 months previously. He was also the first to do so on an independent label (Raybaw) since Garth Brooks debuted at #1 in September 2007 with "More Than A Memory" (on the Pearl label).
  • This was the best selling hit of 2008 on the Hot Country Songs chart.
  • Otto wrote this with Jim Femino and D. Vincent Williams. He told AOL how the song came together: "We sat down to write and I said, 'I have got this hook - just got started loving you.' D. Vincent had this melody line, which turned out to be completely hooky. The feel of that melody and that hook just sounds sexy, but I had no idea it was going to do what it did."

Comments: 1

  • Jim from Royersford, Pa"JUST GOT STARTED LOVIN' YOU" was the first #1 song for all three of it's writers! James Otto, Jim Femino and D. Vincent Williams.
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