Rose in Paradise

"Rose in Paradise"
Single by Waylon Jennings
from the album Hangin' Tough
B-side "Crying Don't Even Come Close"
Released January 1987
Genre Country
Length 3:42
Label MCA
Writer(s) Jim McBride
Stewart Harris
Producer(s) Jimmy Bowen
Waylon Jennings
Waylon Jennings singles chronology
"What You'll Do When I'm Gone"
(1986)
"Rose in Paradise"
(1987)
"Fallin' Out"
(1987)

"Rose in Paradise" is a song written by Stewart Harris and Jim McBride, and recorded by American country music artist Waylon Jennings. It was released in January 1987 as the first single from the album Hangin' Tough. "Rose in Paradise" was Waylon Jennings' twelfth number one country single. The single went to number one for one week and spent a total of nineteen weeks on the country chart. Recording country artist Chris Young has a remake of the song as a duet with Willie Nelson from the album "The Man I Want to Be".[1]

Chart performance

Chart (1987) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles 1
Canadian RPM Country Tracks 1

References

  1. Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 176.

External links

Preceded by
"Kids of the Baby Boom"
by The Bellamy Brothers
Billboard Hot Country Singles
number-one single

April 25, 1987
Succeeded by
"Don't Go to Strangers"
by T. Graham Brown
Preceded by
""You've Got" the Touch"
by Alabama
RPM Country Tracks
number-one single

May 2, 1987
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