Bet Your Heart on Me

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"Bet Your Heart on Me"
Single by Johnny Lee
from the album Bet Your Heart on Me
B-side "Highways Run On Forever"
ReleasedSeptember 28, 1981
Genre Country
Length2:54
Label Full Moon/Asylum
Songwriter(s) Jim McBride
Producer(s) Jim Ed Norman
Johnny Lee singles chronology
"Rode Hard and Put Up Wet"
(1981)
"Bet Your Heart on Me"
(1981)
"Be There for Me Baby"
(1982)

"Bet Your Heart on Me" is a song written by Jim McBride and recorded by American country music artist Johnny Lee. It was released in September 1981 as the lead single and title track from the album Bet Your Heart on Me. The song was Lee's third number one on the country chart. The single stayed at number one for one week and spent a total of ten weeks on the chart. [1]

Charts

Chart (1981)Peak
position
US Hot Country Songs ( Billboard ) [2] 1
US Billboard Hot 100 [3] 54
Canadian RPM Country Tracks5

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