Life (Ricky Nelson song)

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"Life"
Single by Rick Nelson & The Stone Canyon Band
from the album Rudy the Fifth
B-side "California"
Released January 30, 1971
Genre Rock
Length2:58
Label Decca Records 32779
Songwriter(s) Ricky Nelson
Producer(s) Ricky Nelson
Rick Nelson & The Stone Canyon Band singles chronology
"How Long"
(1970)
"Life"
(1971)
"Garden Party"
(1972)

"Life" is a song written and produced by Ricky Nelson and performed by Rick Nelson & The Stone Canyon Band. [1] The song reached #15 on the adult contemporary chart and #109 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1971. [2]

Ricky Nelson actor, musician, singer

Eric Hilliard Nelson was an American rock and roll star, musician, and singer-songwriter. From age eight he starred alongside his family in the radio and television series The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet. In 1957 he began a long and successful career as a popular recording artist. As one of the top "teen idols" of the 1950s his fame led to a motion picture role co-starring alongside John Wayne and Dean Martin in Howard Hawks's western feature film Rio Bravo (1959). He placed 53 songs on the Billboard Hot 100, and its predecessors, between 1957 and 1973, including "Poor Little Fool" in 1958, which was the first #1 song on Billboard magazine's then-newly created Hot 100 chart. He recorded 19 additional Top 10 hits and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on January 21, 1987. In 1996 Nelson was ranked #49 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Stars of All Time.

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The song is featured on his 1972 album, Rudy the Fifth . [3]

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