Flight 309 to Tennessee

"Flight 309 to Tennessee"
Single by Shelly West
from the album West by West
B-side "Sexy Song"
Released July 2, 1983
Genre Country
Label Viva
Writer(s) Ronnie Scott
Producer(s) Snuff Garrett, Steve Dorff
Shelly West singles chronology
"José Cuervo"
(1983)
"Flight 309 to Tennessee"
(1983)
"Another Motel Memory"
(1983)

"Flight 309 to Tennessee" is a song written by Ronnie Scott, and made famous by American country music artist Shelly West. It originally charted at #36 in 1974 on the Billboard Easy Listening chart for Vicki Britton, a Dallas-based singer/songwriter on Bell Records.[1] Shelly's cover was released in July 1983 as the second single from the album West by West. The song reached #4 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.[2]

Chart performance

Chart (1983) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks 4
Canadian RPM Country Tracks 11

References

  1. Whitburn, Joel (1993). Top Adult Contemporary: 1961-1993. Record Research. p. 34.
  2. Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 379.


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