If I Kiss You

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""If I Kiss You (Will You Go Away)""
Single by Lynn Anderson
from the album Ride, Ride, Ride
Released1967
FormatAlbum
Genre Country
Length2:13
Label Columbia
Songwriter(s) Liz Anderson
Lynn Anderson singles chronology
"Ride, Ride, Ride"
(1966)
""If I Kiss You (Will You Go Away)""
(1967)
"Too Much of You"
(1967)

"If I Kiss You (Will You Go Away)" is a popular 1967 song by country singer Lynn Anderson.

Lynn Anderson American country music singer

Lynn Rene Anderson was an American country music singer known for a string of hits from the late 1960s to the 1980s, most notably her worldwide hit "Rose Garden" (1970). Anderson's crossover appeal and regular exposure on national television helped her become one of country music's first mainstream female superstars in the early 1970s; taking the genre to venues around the world that previously had not been receptive. In 1970, she became the first female country star to appear on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. Anderson was among the most highly awarded female country recording artists of her era. Her version of "Rose Garden" stands as one of the most successful crossover recordings of all-time.

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"If I Kiss You" became Anderson's first top-ten single, paving the way for eight number ones and 18 top tens to come. Anderson's first single "Ride, Ride, Ride", also released in 1967, made the Country Top 40. "If I Kiss You (Will You Go Away)" reached the Top 5 on the Country chart. The song was written by her mother, legendary country music singer-songwriter, Liz Anderson.

Elizabeth Jane Anderson was an American country music singer-songwriter who was one in a wave of new-generation female vocalists in the genre during the 1960s to write and record her own songs on a regular basis. Writing in The New York Times Bill Friskics-Warren noted, "Like her contemporary Loretta Lynn, Ms. Anderson gave voice to female survivors; inhabiting their struggles in a soprano at times alluring, at times sassy."

Lynn Anderson performed "If I Kiss You" on the Lawrence Welk Show , with Kimmosato, where she was a regular during the 1967 - 1968 season. "If I Kiss You" was followed up by a couple other quirky country numbers that became hits, like "That's a No No", "Big Girls Don't Cry", (not to be confused with the song "Big Girls Don't Cry" by Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons) and "Flattery Will Get You Everywhere", all hits for her in the late 1960s.

"Big Girls Don't Cry" is a single by American country music artist Lynn Anderson. Released in July 1968, it was the first single from her album Big Girls Don't Cry. The song peaked at number 12 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart. It also reached number 1 on the RPM Country Tracks chart in Canada.

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Chart (1967)Peak
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U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles5

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