Mrs. Potter's Lullaby

"Mrs. Potter's Lullaby" is a single by American rock band Counting Crows. It is the second track on their third album, This Desert Life (1999). The song reached number three on the US Billboard Adult Alternative Songs chart and number 16 on the Canadian RPM Top 30 Rock Report. In April 2022, American Songwriter ranked the song at number three on their list of "The Top 10 Counting Crows Songs".[3]

"Mrs. Potter's Lullaby"
Single by Counting Crows
from the album This Desert Life
B-side"All My Friends"[1]
ReleasedApril 3, 2000 (2000-04-03)[2]
Length7:46
LabelDGC
Songwriter(s)David Bryson, Adam Duritz, Charlie Gillingham, Matt Malley, Ben Mize, Dan Vickrey
Producer(s)David Lowery, Dennis Herring
Counting Crows singles chronology
"Hanginaround"
(1999)		 "Mrs. Potter's Lullaby"
(2000)		 "All My Friends"
(2000)

Background

The band's frontman, Adam Duritz, has stated that the song was written about actress Monica Potter.[4] Duritz, who has based other songs on real people, explained that this song was influenced by an imaginary version of the actress, based on seeing her onscreen in Con Air (1997) and Patch Adams (1998). As it so happened, they ended up meeting (for the first time) for a casual supper with industry friends the day the band was recording the song, and Potter returned to the studio with Duritz to watch them record. They became friends, and she actually salvaged the song for the band; when Duritz later told Potter that the song was being dropped as the subsequent production efforts had butchered it, she gave him a tape from that night with a clean copy of the fourth of eight versions recorded while she was in the studio, and this is the version that was added to the album.[4]

Charts
Chart (2000) Peak
position
Canada Rock/Alternative (RPM)[5] 16
US Adult Alternative Songs (Billboard)[6] 3
US Adult Top 40 (Billboard)[7] 40

References
  1. Mrs. Potter's Lullaby (US 7-inch single vinyl disc). Counting Crows. DGC Records. 2000. 069497411-7.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  2. "Going for Adds". Radio & Records. No. 1344. March 31, 2000. pp. 74, 78.
  3. Uitti, Jacob (April 29, 2022). "The Top 10 Counting Crows Songs". American Songwriter. Retrieved April 30, 2022.
  4. Furness, Dyllan (July 19, 2016). "The Serendipitous Events Behind "Mrs. Potter's Lullaby"". New Times Broward-Palm Beach. Retrieved August 27, 2018.
  5. "Top RPM Rock/Alternative Tracks: Issue 7219." RPM. Library and Archives Canada. Retrieved April 30, 2022.
  6. "Counting Crows Chart History (Adult Alternative Songs)". Billboard. Retrieved April 30, 2022.
  7. "Counting Crows Chart History (Adult Pop Songs)". Billboard. Retrieved April 30, 2022.
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