Don't Let Go of My Heart

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"Don't Let of My Heart"
Single by Southern Pacific
from the album Killbilly Hill
B-side "What's It Gonna Take"
ReleasedMarch 21, 1987
Genre Country
Length4:16
Label Warner Bros.
Songwriter(s) Kurt Howell, Harry Maslin
Producer(s) Southern Pacific, Jim Ed Norman
Southern Pacific singles chronology
"Killbilly Hill"
(1986)
"Don't Let of My Heart"
(1987)
"Midnight Highway"
(1988)

"Don't Let Go of My Heart" is a song recorded by American country music group Southern Pacific. It was released in March 1987 as the third single from their 1986 album Killbilly Hill. The song reached No. 26 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart. [1] The song was written by Kurt Howell and Harry Maslin.

Chart performance

Chart (1987)Peak
position
US Hot Country Songs ( Billboard ) [2] 26
Canadian RPM Country Tracks27

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References

  1. Whitburn, Joel (2013). Hot Country Songs: 1944-2012, Eighth edition. Record Research. p. 315.
  2. "Southern Pacific Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.