After the Love Slips Away

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"After the Love Slips Away"
Single by Earl Thomas Conley
from the album Fire and Smoke
B-side "Smokey Mountain Memories"
ReleasedFebruary 6, 1982
Genre Country
Length3:17
Label RCA
Songwriter(s) Earl Thomas Conley
Producer(s) Nelson Larkin, Earl Thomas Conley
Earl Thomas Conley singles chronology
"Tell Me Why"
(1981)
"After the Love Slips Away"
(1982)
"Heavenly Bodies"
(1982)

"After the Love Slips Away" is a song written and recorded by American country music artist Earl Thomas Conley. It was released in February 1982 as the fourth single from the album Fire and Smoke. The song reached number 16 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart. [1]

Earl Thomas Conley American country music singer-songwriter

Earl Thomas Conley is an American country music singer-songwriter. Between 1980 and 2003, he recorded ten studio albums, including seven for the RCA Records label. In the 1980s and into the 1990s, Conley also charted more than thirty singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, of which eighteen reached Number One. Conley's eighteen Billboard Number One country singles during the 1980s marked the most Number One hits by any artist in any genre during that decade except for Alabama and Ronnie Milsap.

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Chart performance

Chart (1982)Peak
position
US Hot Country Songs ( Billboard ) [2] 16
Canadian RPM Country Tracks31

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References

  1. Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 88.
  2. "Earl Thomas Conley Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.