Life's So Funny

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Life's So Funny
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Studio album by
ReleasedDecember 5, 1995
StudioSoundShop Recording Studios
Genre Country
Length35:11
Label Epic
Producer Johnny Slate
Joe Diffie
Joe Diffie chronology
Mr. Christmas
(1995)
Life's So Funny
(1995)
Twice Upon a Time
(1997)
Singles from Life's So Funny
  1. "Bigger Than the Beatles"
    Released: November 27, 1995
  2. "C-O-U-N-T-R-Y"
    Released: March 2, 1996
  3. "Whole Lotta Gone"
    Released: June 22, 1996
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Life's So Funny is the sixth studio album by American country music artist Joe Diffie. It was released on December 5, 1995, through Epic Records. It contains the single "Bigger Than the Beatles", Diffie's last Number One single on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) charts. Following this single were "C-O-U-N-T-R-Y" and "Whole Lotta Gone"; both peaked at #23. The track "Tears in the Rain" (co-written by Diffie) was originally recorded by Tim McGraw on his 1993 self-titled debut album.

Contents

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Bigger Than the Beatles"Jeb Stuart Anderson, Steve Dukes3:58
2."Never Mine to Lose"Nancy Lee Baxter, Joe Doyle3:41
3."Down in a Ditch" Dennis Linde 3:07
4."Tears in the Rain"Joe Diffie, Lonnie Wilson, Wayne Perry 3:20
5."C-O-U-N-T-R-Y"Ron Harbin, Ed Hill, Dusty Drake 2:38
6."She Loves Me"Stephony Smith, Tommy Lee James 3:43
7."Back to the Cave" Skip Ewing, Tim Johnson 4:04
8."I'm Willing to Try"Dean Sams, Wendell Mobley, John Jarrard 4:21
9."Whole Lotta Gone"Mark James Oliverius, Keith Burns2:59
10."Life's So Funny"Bob Moulds, Wyatt Easterling3:20

Personnel

Strings by The Nashville String Machine arranged by Carl Gorodetzky.

Charts

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