Heart on the Mend

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"Heart on the Mend"
Single by Sylvia
from the album Drifter
B-side "Rainbow Rider"
ReleasedSeptember 12, 1981
Genre Country
Length3:11
Label RCA Nashville
Songwriter(s) Kye Fleming, Dennis Morgan
Producer(s) Tom Collins
Sylvia singles chronology
"The Matador"
(1981)
"Heart on the Mend"
(1981)
"Sweet Yesterday"
(1981)

"Heart on the Mend" is a song written by Kye Fleming and Dennis Morgan, and recorded by American country music artist Sylvia. It was released in September 1981 as the fifth single from the album Drifter . The song reached #8 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart. [1]

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The song focuses on a woman who runs into an old lover in a honky tonk and hides her feelings for him, despite her heart still being broken and on the mend.

Chart performance

Chart (1981)Peak
position
US Hot Country Songs ( Billboard ) [2] 8
Canadian RPM Country Tracks11

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References

  1. Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 342.
  2. "Sylvia Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.