Blue Love (song)

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"Blue Love"
Single by The O'Kanes
from the album Tired of the Runnin'
B-side "Highway 55"
ReleasedJuly 1988
Genre Country
Label Columbia
Songwriter(s) Jamie O'Hara, Kieran Kane
Producer(s) Kieran Kane, Jamie O'Hara
The O'Kanes singles chronology
"One True Love"
(1988)
"Blue Love"
(1988)
"Rocky Road"
(1988)

"Blue Love" is a song written and recorded by American country music duo The O'Kanes. It was released in July 1988 as the second single from the album Tired of the Runnin. The song reached number 10 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart. [1]

The OKanes

The O'Kanes was an American country music duo, composed of Jamie O'Hara and Kieran Kane. Active between 1986 and 1990, the duo recorded three albums for Columbia Records and charted seven singles on the Billboard Hot Country Singles charts, including the Number One "Can't Stop My Heart from Loving You". Kane charted seven singles of his own in the early 1980s, and O'Hara won a Grammy Award for co-writing "Grandpa ", a Number One hit for The Judds. After they disbanded in 1990, both members pursued solo careers, and Kane founded a record label called Dead Reckoning Records.

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Chart performance

Chart (1988)Peak
position
US Hot Country Songs ( Billboard ) [2] 10
Canadian RPM Country Tracks [3] 18

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References

  1. Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 253.
  2. "The O'Kanes Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.
  3. "RPM 100 Country Singles" (PDF). RPM. October 15, 1988.