It's the World Gone Crazy

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It's the World Gone Crazy
Glen Campbell It's the World Gone Crazy album cover.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedJanuary 1981
Recorded1980
StudioSound Labs Inc., Hollywood
Genre Country
Label Capitol
Producer Gary Klein, Snuff Garrett
Glen Campbell chronology
Somethin' 'Bout You Baby I Like
(1980)
It's the World Gone Crazy
(1981)
Glen Campbell Live
(1981)

It's the World Gone Crazy is the thirty-seventh album by American singer/guitarist Glen Campbell, released in 1981 (see 1981 in music). The lead single, "Any Which Way You Can", was the title song to the 1980 movie Any Which Way You Can , the sequel to Every Which Way But Loose .

Contents

Track listing

Side 1:

  1. "Why Don't We Just Sleep on It Tonight" (duet with Tanya Tucker) (John Lewis Parker, Harry Shannon) – 3:05
  2. "I Don't Want to Know Your Name" (Micheal Smotherman) – 4:02
  3. "In Cars" (Jimmy Webb) – 3:05
  4. "It's the World's Gone Crazy (Cotillion)" (Shel Silverstein, Waylon Jennings) – 2:38
  5. "Rollin'" (Joe Rainey, Jack Tempchin) – 3:30

Side 2:

  1. "Nothing Quite Like Love" (Micheal Smotherman) – 3:57
  2. "A Daisy a Day" (Jud Strunk) – 3:40
  3. "Any Which Way You Can" (Milton Brown, Steve Dorff, Snuff Garrett) – 3:14
  4. "It's Your World" (Joe Rainey) – 3:46
  5. "Shoulder to Shoulder" (duet with Tanya Tucker) (Henry Gaffney) – 3:25

Personnel

Production

Chart performance

Album

Chart (1981)Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums49
U.S. Billboard 200178

Singles

YearSinglePeak chart positions
US Country US US AC CAN Country
1980"Any Which Way You Can"1010
1981"I Don't Want to Know Your Name"546545
"Why Don't We Just Sleep on It Tonight" (with Tanya Tucker)85

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