'Til You Cry

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"'Til You Cry"
Single by Eddy Raven
from the album The Best of Eddy Raven
B-side "Just for the Sake of the Thrill"
ReleasedDecember 3, 1988
Genre Country
Length3:52
Label RCA Nashville
Songwriter(s) Steve Bogard, Rick Giles
Producer(s) Barry Beckett
Eddy Raven singles chronology
"Joe Knows How to Live"
(1988)
"'Til You Cry"
(1988)
"In a Letter to You"
(1989)

"'Til You Cry" is a song written by Steve Bogard and Rick Giles, and recorded by American country music artist Eddy Raven. It was released in December 1988 as the third single from his compilation album The Best of Eddy Raven. The song reached #4 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart. [1]

Contents

Original version

Chart performance

Chart (1988–1989)Peak
position
US Hot Country Songs ( Billboard ) [2] 4

Year-end charts

Chart (1989)Position
Canada Country Tracks ( RPM ) [3] 95
US Country Songs ( Billboard ) [4] 60

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References

  1. Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 281.
  2. "Eddy Raven Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.
  3. "RPM Top 100 Country Tracks of 1989". RPM . December 23, 1989. Retrieved August 28, 2013.
  4. "Best of 1989: Country Songs". Billboard . Prometheus Global Media. 1989. Retrieved August 28, 2013.