"Pop a Top" is a song written by Nat Stuckey

Nat Stuckey

Nathan Stuckey was an American country singer. He recorded for various labels between 1966 and 1978, charting in the top 10 of Hot Country Songs with "Sweet Thang", "Plastic Saddle", "Sweet Thang and Cisco" and "Take Time to Love Her"-Biography:Raised in Atlanta, Texas, in Cass County, Nat Stuckey...

, and recorded by American country music

Country music

Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...

 artist Alan Jackson

Alan Jackson

Alan Eugene Jackson is an American country music singer, known for blending traditional honky tonk and mainstream country sounds and penning many of his own hits. He has recorded 13 studio albums, 3 Greatest Hits albums, 2 Holiday albums, 1 Gospel album and several compilations, all on the Arista...

. It is the lead-off single to his 1999 album Under the Influence

Under the Influence (Alan Jackson album)

Under The Influence is the eighth studio album by American country music artist Alan Jackson. It was released on October 26, 1999, and features covers of other country artists' material. Three singles were released from Under the Influence; "Pop a Top", "The Blues Man", and "It Must Be Love", which...

. It peaked at number 6 on the United States Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart, and number 2 on the Canadian RPM Country Tracks chart. It was originally recorded by Jim Ed Brown

Jim Ed Brown

Jim Ed Brown is an American country music singer who achieved fame in the 1950s with his two sisters as a member of The Browns. He later had a successful solo career from 1965 to 1974, followed by a string of major duet hits with Helen Cornelius through 1981...

 and was released in May 1967 as the third and final single from his album Just Jim. The song was a number 3 Billboard country single for Brown in late 1967.

Music video

The music video for Jackson's version was directed by Steven Goldmann

Steven Goldmann

Steven Goldmann is a Canadian music video and film director. He has directed over 200 music videos. Goldmann also directed the movies Broken Bridges and Trailer Park of Terror, and has additionally directed several television programs.-1990-1999:...

, and features Cledus T. Judd

Cledus T. Judd

Barry Poole is an American country music artist who records under the name Cledus T. Judd. Known primarily for his parodies of popular country music songs, he has been called the "Weird Al" Yankovic of country music, and his albums are usually an equal mix of original comedy songs and parodies...

. It starts out with him getting drunk on so many beers that he starts to feel like as if he was at a party, where Alan Jackson is singing on the stage. At the end, just when Cledus starts to get in touch with a beautiful woman, he wakes back up, and he starts getting more beers out of the fridge to "get the magic back".

Jim Ed Brown

"Pop a Top" debuted at number 71 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles for the week of May 20, 1967.

Chart (1967)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles	3

Alan Jackson

"Pop a Top" debuted at number 49 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks for the week of October 9, 1999.

Chart (1999-2000)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks	6
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	43
Canadian RPM Country Tracks	2