Five Minutes (Lorrie Morgan song)

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"Five Minutes"
Single by Lorrie Morgan
from the album Leave the Light On
B-side "I'll Take the Memories" [1]
ReleasedJanuary 1990
Recorded1988
Genre Country
Length3:36
Label RCA Nashville
Songwriter(s) Beth Nielsen Chapman [2]
Producer(s) Barry Beckett
Lorrie Morgan singles chronology
"Out of Your Shoes"
(1989)
"Five Minutes"
(1990)
"He Talks to Me"
(1990)

"Five Minutes" is a country music song written by Beth Nielsen Chapman. It was recorded by Lorrie Morgan for her debut album Leave the Light On , and released as the album's fourth single. In April 1990, the song became Morgan's first number one hit on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.

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It was also recorded by Pam Tillis in the late 1980s during her tenure on Warner Bros. Records, but was not issued on an album until the 1994 Pam Tillis Collection. [3]

Chart performance

Chart (1990)Peak
position
Canada Country Tracks ( RPM ) [4] 9
US Hot Country Songs ( Billboard ) [5] 1

Year-end charts

Chart (1990)Position
US Country Songs ( Billboard ) [6] 14

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