House on Old Lonesome Road

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House on Old Lonesome Road
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Studio album by
ReleasedJuly 7, 1989
Recorded1988−89
StudioSound Stage Studios, Nashville, TN
Genre Country
Length32:57
Label MCA
Producer Jimmy Bowen, Dee Henry, Conway Twitty
Conway Twitty chronology
Making Believe
(1988)
House on Old Lonesome Road
(1989)
Greatest Hits Volume III
(1990)

House on Old Lonesome Road is the fifty-fourth studio album by American country music singer Conway Twitty. It was released in 1989 on MCA Records, and features the hit "She's Got a Single Thing in Mind", which Allmusic's Jason Ankeny called "the energizing hit which reaffirmed Twitty's standing among the era's country's giants."

Contents

"Play, Ruby, Play" was later released as a single by Clinton Gregory.

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Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."She's Got a Single Thing in Mind" Walt Aldridge 3:42
2."Who's Gonna Know" Jimmy Griffin, Richard Mainegra, Rick Yancey2:49
3."Play, Ruby, Play" Tony Brown, Troy Seals 3:29
4."House on Old Lonesome Road"" Dave Gibson, Bernie Nelson3:57
5."Nobody Can Fill Your Shoes" Roger Murrah, James Dean Hicks2:43
6."Private Part of My Heart" Max D. Barnes, Seals3:30
7."Child with Child"Dave Goodman, Allen Ray2:57
8."Take Me Home to Mama" Karen Staley, Gary Harrison 3:18
9."Pieces of You"Barnes, Skip Ewing 3:20
10."Too White to Sing the Blues" Lacy J. Dalton, Murrah3:12

Production

Personnel

Chart performance

Chart (1989)Peak position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums39 [2]

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References

  1. House on Old Lonesome Road at AllMusic
  2. "Conway Twitty". Billboard .