Chains (Patty Loveless song)
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| Single by Patty Loveless from the album Honky Tonk Angel |
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| A-side | Chains | ||||
| B-side | I'm On Your Side | ||||
| Released | December 30, 1989 | ||||
| Format | 7" | ||||
| Recorded | 1988 | ||||
| Genre | Country | ||||
| Length | 2:27 | ||||
| Label | MCA Records | ||||
| Writer(s) | Hal Bynum & Bud Reneau | ||||
| Producer | Tony Brown | ||||
| Patty Loveless singles chronology | |||||
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Chains is a single release by Patty Loveless, recorded at MCA/Nashville in the spring of 1988. It was included on her third album with MCA Records, Honky Tonk Angel, with the single being released in December 1989. It was the fifth single released from the album.
[edit] Background
"Chains" was Loveless' second career No. 1 hit, with both this song and the earlier "Timber I'm Falling In Love" coming from Honky Tonk Angel.
In its original form, the song had a much slower tempo than the one recorded by Loveless. Tony Brown, one of her producers at the time, decided to speed up the tempo for the arrangement she recorded.
According to Loveless, "I remember they were putting it on hold for George (Jones), but somehow it got pitched to me too. Sometimes that happens, it does you know, by fault sometimes. And I remember Nancy was telling George you need to cut this song. But he didn't cut it, and after I did, it became a number one for me, and George and I remember talking about it backstage one night at the Opry, and we were getting ready to do an awards show together. And he says, he was talking to Nancy, and Nancy was standing beside us, this is George's wife, and he says "See honey, I told you that was more a woman's song, than a mans song".
The song charted for 26 weeks on the Billboard Hot Country Singles and Tracks chart, reaching No. 1 during the week of March 10, 1990.
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[edit] Sources
- Whitburn, Joel, "Top Country Songs: 1944-2005," 2006.
| Preceded by "No Matter How High" by Oak Ridge Boys |
Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks number one single by Patty Loveless March 10, 1990 |
Succeeded by "Hard Rock Bottom of Your Heart" by Randy Travis |
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