Got My Heart Set on You

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"Got My Heart Set on You"
Single by John Conlee
from the album Harmony
B-side "You've Got a Right"
ReleasedMay 1986
Genre Country
Length3:01
Label Columbia
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s) Bud Logan
John Conlee singles chronology
"Harmony"
(1986)
"Got My Heart Set on You"
(1986)
"The Carpenter"
(1986)

"Got My Heart Set on You" is a song written by Dobie Gray and Bud Reneau, and recorded by American country music artist John Conlee. It was released in May 1986 as the second single from the album Harmony . The song was Conlee's seventh and final number one country hit. The single went to number one for one week and spent a total of fourteen weeks on the country chart. [1]

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Chart performance

Chart (1986)Peak
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US Hot Country Songs ( Billboard ) [2] 1
Canadian RPM Country Tracks1

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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. "John Conlee Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.
  3. Whitburn, Joel (2013). Hot Country Songs 1944–2012. Record Research, Inc. p. 209. ISBN   978-0-89820-203-8.