So, let's set the stage.  You're stopped in traffic in Los Angeles.  You, A) Check your voice mail., B) Check yourself out in the mirror, or C) You write a hit country song.  Ding, ding, ding, yep that's exactly what our artist did with today's KLAW Classic.

Larry Gatlin is that artist, and his song 'All the Gold in California' came from a traffic jam.  Gatlin had time to watch people.  The number one song on this day in 1979 is from Gatlin and his brothers, Steve and Rudy, and is today's KLAW Classic.

More From KLAW-FM