"Some Hearts"
Single byMarshall Crenshaw
from the albumGood Evening
B-side	"Whatever Way the Wind Blows"
Released	1989
Recorded	1989
Genre	Power pop,folk rock
Length	4:22
Label	Warner Bros. Records
Songwriter	Diane Warren
Producer	David Kershenbaum

"Some Hearts" is a song written byDiane Warren. The track was originally written forBelinda Carlisle, who recorded it as a demo for her 1987Heaven on Earth album, but it was not included on the album. It was released as a single byMarshall Crenshaw from his 1989 album,Good Evening, but it failed to chart. Singers that have covered the song include Kelly Levesque, featured in the 2001 filmAmerica's Sweethearts,Maria Arredondo for her 2004 albumNot Going Under, andCarrie Underwood for herdebut album of the same name.

Marshall Crenshaw released the first version of "Some Hearts" on his 1989 albumGood Evening. The album was Crenshaw's last forWarner Bros. Pessimistic about the album's fate, he sought outside songwriters; he recalled, "I didn’t want to write any songs for the album, because I had very little faith and I couldn't get myself to make that kind of commitment to the record. I decided to save my energy."^[1]

Crenshaw recalled that performing a Warren song was "a little bit strange, but I was really charmed by it." The song featuresDavid Lindley on fiddle; Crenshaw stated, "We did sort of sabotage it, turned it into a hillbilly song." Crenshaw also made some changes to the lyrics, angering Warren:

I made a couple of changes in the lyrics, and she was really angry at me for doing it. I was on Diane Warren’s (bad) list. I figure you have a license to do that when you record a song.

In 2005, it was recorded byCarrie Underwood as the title track of her debut album,Some Hearts, and was the album's second single. It was only released topop andadult contemporary radio in theUnited States in November 2005, around the same time that "Jesus, Take the Wheel" was released to country radio. "Some Hearts" peaked at number 12 on theBillboardAdult Contemporary chart and reached number 22 on theAdult Top 40 chart. The song had no accompanying music video and was not released to country radio. It has sold over 207,000 copies in US as of February 2010.^[3]

Underwood performed the song at the 2005Billboard Music Awards, the half-time of the2006 NBA All-Star Game inHouston, on an episode ofThe Ellen DeGeneres Show and during her promotional tour for the album's release. The song was used in early commercials forAmerican Idol's website duringthe sixth season of the show, untilDaughtry's "Home" was used after Hollywood week.

Scott Shetler ofSlant Magazine wrote in his review of the album that " Underwood is likely to become a fixture on the country charts for the next year with songs like the uptempo title track, a smash hit in the making that is equal partsJo Dee Messina andSHeDAISY."^[4]Stephen Thomas Erlewine wrote that Underwood sounds equally convincing on such sentimental fare as "Jesus, Take the Wheel" as on the soaring pop "Some Hearts".^[5]

In 2001, the song was covered by Kelly Levesque for the soundtrack forAmerica's Sweethearts^[11] and in 2004 byMaria Arredondo for her second studio album,Not Going Under.^[12]

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