Billy Currington’s new album, We Are Tonight, hit stores this week, and the first single from the album “Hey Girl” is poised to hit the top of the charts in the coming weeks. While Billy didn’t write the song, he says it’s a pickup line he and his buddies used when they would try to pick up girls on the beach years ago. One of those buddies he also considers his “Wingman,” which is another song on his new album.

“I still have a guy named Jamie Day, my best friend in the whole wide world, and he’s my wingman, always will be; like he’s the guy when I explain where did ‘Hey Girl’ come from. ‘Hey Girl’ is what we used to say while we were walking down the beach when we didn’t know what else to say, and Jamie was always that wingman for me. If either one of us couldn’t come up with something, that was the one line we would use, and it would always start conversation. Every time,” says Billy. “I’ve known Jamie since the fifth grade. He ended up sitting in front of me, and we just became the two class clowns and got in a lot of trouble together, and it just kept going from there.”

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“I still have a guy named Jamie Day, my best friend in the whole wide world, and he’s my wingman, always will be; like he’s the guy when I explain where did ‘Hey Girl’ come from. ‘Hey Girl’ is what we used to say while we were walking down the beach when we didn’t know what else to say, and Jamie was always that wingman for me. If either one of us couldn’t come up with something, that was the one line we would use, and it would always start conversation. Every time. You would think they would look at us like, ‘You’re stupid. What are you saying?’… But yeah, Jamie Day, that’s my wingman. I’ve known Jamie since the fifth grade. He ended up sitting in front of me, and we just became the two class clowns and got in a lot of trouble together, and it just kept going from there.”