How to Be a Country Star

"How to Be a Country Star"
Single by The Statler Brothers
from the album The Originals
B-side"A Little Farther Down the Road"
ReleasedMarch 1979
RecordedSeptember 28, 1978
GenreCountry
Length3:30
LabelMercury 55057
Songwriter(s)Don Reid and Harold Reid
Producer(s)Jerry Kennedy
The Statler Brothers singles chronology
"The Official Historian on Shirley Jean Berrell"
(1978) 		"How to Be a Country Star"
(1979) 		"Here We Are Again"
(1979)

"How to Be a Country Star" is a song recorded by American country music group The Statler Brothers, written by group members Harold Reid and Don Reid. The song – a humorous, tongue-in-cheek advice song that names many of the top country music recording artists of the time, along with a number of classic country artists – was released in March 1979 as the first single from the album The Originals. The song eventually climbed to No. 7 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart that May, and also No. 18 on the Canadian RPM country singles chart.[1]

  1. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2013). Hot Country Songs: 1944-2012, Eighth edition. Record Research. p. 320.