Artist:Rascal Flatts
Song:Life Is a Highway
Album:Twenty Years of Rascal Flatts: The Greatest Hits
Rascal Flatts scored a top ten pop hit with this 2006 cover of Tom Cochrane's Life Is a Highway. It's unusual for a couple of reasons. As far as I can tell, they rarely recorded covers. It's also the only time they recorded a song for a film. So that makes it a discography orphan though it's easy to find. I think it was a surprise hit single for Disney. Rascal Flatts were on Disney owned Lyric Street Records at the time. They were asked to record a song for the 2006 film Cars. Randy Newman composed the score. John Mayer recorded a cover of Route 66 for the film. Disney shot a video for Life Is a Highway and released it as a single. The record did so many digital downloads that it reached #7 on the Billboard Hot 100. I guess it was a big windfall for Cochrane too. Though the record was never released to country radio, it still reached #18 on the Country Singles chart. Disney was forced to add it as a bonus track to later pressings of the 2006 Rascal Flatts album Me and My Gang. It also won Favorite Song from a Movie at The People's Choice Awards. Life Is a Highway appeared on the 2008 CD Greatest Hits though I recommend the 2020 CD Twenty Years of Rascal Flatts as it more up to date. I just think the record's success was a big surprise and that makes it a discography orphan. Here's the video for Life Is a Highway by Rascal Flatts.
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