In the fall of 2000, songwriter Steven Dale Jones (“Ten Thousand Angels,” “Singles You Up”) played a club in Atlanta the night he’d learned that Arista planned to release his song “One More Day.”

“I remember saying, ‘This is going to be a Diamond Rio single, and I hope you hear it so much you get tired of hearing it,’” Jones recalls.

Twenty-five years since the song’s Oct. 27, 2000, release, “One More Day” has been heard more than 5.5 million times on the radio, according to BMI, putting it in league with such titles as The Beatles’ “Penny Lane,” Dolly Parton’s “9 to 5,” Eric Clapton’s “Tears in Heaven” and Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going On.”

Diamond Rio has never been a band that commands constant media attention, so “One More Day” reached that level through a workman-like route, finding

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