Heartbreak Hill (song)

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"Heartbreak Hill"
Single by Emmylou Harris
from the album Bluebird
B-side "Icy Blue Heart"
Released December 17, 1988
Genre Country
Length3:09
Label Reprise
Songwriter(s) Emmylou Harris, Paul Kennerley
Producer(s) Richard Bennett, Emmylou Harris
Emmylou Harris singles chronology
"Back in Baby's Arms"
(1988)
"Heartbreak Hill"
(1988)
"Heaven Only Knows"
(1989)

"Back in Baby's Arms"
(1988)
"Heartbreak Hill"
(1989)
"Heaven Only Knows"
(1989)

"Heartbreak Hill" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Emmylou Harris. It was released in December 1988 as the first single from the album Bluebird . The song reached number 8 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart. [1] The song was written by Harris and Paul Kennerley.

Emmylou Harris US-American country singer

Emmylou Harris is an American singer, songwriter, and musician. She has released dozens of albums and singles over the course of her career and won 14 Grammys, the Polar Music Prize, and numerous other honors, including induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame. In 2018 she was presented the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.

<i>Bluebird</i> (Emmylou Harris album) 1989 studio album by Emmylou Harris

Bluebird is an Emmylou Harris album from 1989, which merged a number of eclectic songs with polished, country music production. It included her most recent top-ten country-charting single, "Heartbreak Hill". The album enjoyed renewed interest in 2004 when The Sopranos introduced its fifth season with "Heaven Only Knows."

<i>Billboard</i> (magazine) American music magazine

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Chart performance

Chart (1988-1989)Peak
position
US Hot Country Songs ( Billboard ) [2] 8

Year-end charts

Chart (1989)Position
Canada Country Tracks ( RPM ) [3] 54

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References

  1. Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 153.
  2. "Emmylou Harris Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.
  3. "RPM Top 100 Country Tracks of 1989". RPM . December 23, 1989. Retrieved August 28, 2013.