The Year That Clayton Delaney Died
1971 single by Tom T. Hall
"The Year That Clayton Delaney Died" | ||||
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Single by Tom T. Hall | ||||
from the album In Search of a Song | ||||
B-side | "Second Handed Flowers" | |||
Released | July 5, 1971 | |||
Recorded | March 26, 1971 Mercury Custom Recording Studio, Nashville, Tennessee | |||
Genre | Country | |||
Length | 2:42 | |||
Label | Mercury 73221 | |||
Songwriter(s) | Tom T. Hall | |||
Producer(s) | Jerry Kennedy | |||
Tom T. Hall singles chronology | ||||
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"The Year That Clayton Delaney Died" is a song written and recorded by American country music artist Tom T. Hall.
Background
The song is based on Hall's childhood neighbor and boyhood hero, Lonnie Easterling.[1]
Chart performance
It was released in July 1971 as the only single from the album, In Search of a Song. "The Year That Clayton Delaney Died" was Hall's second number one on the country chart. The single stayed at number one for two weeks and spent a total of eighteen weeks on the country charts.[2]
Weekly charts
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References
- ^ "In the Words of Tom T. Hall ..." CMT News. Archived from the original on October 23, 2015. Retrieved 2017-09-27.
- ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 149.
- ^ Whitburn, Joel (2013). Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles, 14th Edition: 1955-2012. Record Research. p. 366.
- ^ Billboard, December 25, 1971.
External links
- Tom T. Hall - The Year That Clayton Delaney Died on YouTube
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Tom T. Hall
- In Search of a Song (1971)
- Places I've Done Time (1978)
- Song in a Seashell (1985)
- Greatest Hits Vol. 2 (1975)
- "Ballad of Forty Dollars"
- "A Week in a Country Jail"
- "Shoeshine Man"
- "Salute to a Switchblade"
- "The Year That Clayton Delaney Died"
- "The Monkey That Became President"
- "(Old Dogs, Children and) Watermelon Wine"
- "Ravishing Ruby"
- "I Love"
- "That Song Is Driving Me Crazy"
- "Country Is"
- "I Care"
- "Deal"
- "I Like Beer"
- "Faster Horses (The Cowboy and the Poet)"
- "Fox on the Run"
- "Your Man Loves You Honey"
- "It's All in the Game"
- "May the Force Be with You Always"
- "What Have You Got to Lose"
- "The Old Side of Town"
- "Song of the South"
- "A Bar with No Beer"
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