If You Want to Find Love

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"If You Want to Find Love"
Single by Kenny Rogers
from the album Back Home Again
B-side "Sunshine"
ReleasedNovember 30, 1991
Genre Country
Length3:08
Label Reprise
Songwriter(s) Kenny Rogers, Skip Ewing, Max D. Barnes
Producer(s) Jim Ed Norman, Eric Prestidge
Kenny Rogers singles chronology
"What I Did for Love"
(1991)
"If You Want to Find Love"
(1991)
"Someone Must Feel Like a Fool Tonight"
(1992)

"If You Want to Find Love" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Kenny Rogers. It was released in November 1991 as the first single from the album Back Home Again . The song reached #11 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart. [1] Rogers wrote the song with Skip Ewing and Max D. Barnes.

Contents

The song features backing vocals from Linda Davis and the Branson Brothers. [2]

Chart performance

Chart (1991-1992)Peak
position
Canada Country Tracks ( RPM ) [3] 12
US Hot Country Songs ( Billboard ) [4] 11

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References

  1. Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 299.
  2. Back Home Again (CD booklet). Kenny Rogers. Reprise Records. 1991. 26740.CS1 maint: others (link)
  3. "Top RPM Country Tracks: Issue 2058." RPM . Library and Archives Canada. February 22, 1992. Retrieved August 15, 2013.
  4. "Kenny Rogers Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.