Life as We Knew It (song)

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"Life as We Knew It"
Single by Kathy Mattea
from the album Untasted Honey
B-side "As Long as I Have a Heart"
ReleasedNovember 12, 1988
Genre Country
Length3:17
Label Mercury
Songwriter(s) Walter Carter, Fred Koller
Producer(s) Allen Reynolds
Kathy Mattea singles chronology
"Untold Stories"
(1988)
"Life as We Knew It"
(1988)
"Come from the Heart"
(1989)

"Life as We Knew It" is a song written by Walter Carter and Fred Koller, and recorded by American country music artist Kathy Mattea. It was released in November 1988 as the fourth single from the album Untasted Honey . The song reached #4 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart. [1]

Fred Koller is an American singer-songwriter. He has been active in the music business since 1973. Fred currently lives and works in Nashville with his wife Trish and their cat Buddy.

Kathy Mattea American musician, activist

Kathleen Alice Mattea is an American country music and bluegrass singer. Active since 1984 as a recording artist, she has charted more than thirty singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, including four that reached No. 1: "Goin' Gone", "Eighteen Wheels and a Dozen Roses", "Come from the Heart", and "Burnin' Old Memories", plus twelve more that charted within the top ten. She has released fourteen studio albums, two Christmas albums, and one greatest hits album. Most of her material was recorded for Universal Music Group Nashville's Mercury Records Nashville division between 1984 and 2000, with later albums being issued on Narada Productions, her own Captain Potato label, and Sugar Hill Records. Among her albums, she has received five gold certifications and one platinum certification from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). She has collaborated with Dolly Parton, Michael McDonald, Tim O'Brien, and her husband, Jon Vezner. Mattea is also a two-time Grammy Award winner: in 1990 for "Where've You Been", and in 1993 for her Christmas album Good News. Her style is defined by traditional country, bluegrass, folk, and Celtic music influences.

<i>Untasted Honey</i> album by Kathy Mattea

Untasted Honey is the fourth studio album by American country music artist Kathy Mattea. It was released in 1987 on Mercury Records. The album produced Mattea's first Number One hit on the Billboard country charts in its lead-off single "Goin' Gone". Following this song was another Number One hit, "Eighteen Wheels and a Dozen Roses", then "Untold Stories" and "Life as We Knew It", both of which reached #4. "The Battle Hymn of Love" was later released as a single from Mattea's 1990 album A Collection of Hits. Like Walk the Way the Wind Blows before it, this album includes a cut originally found on Nanci Griffith's 1986 album The Last of the True Believers, this time in the track "Goin' Gone". Untasted Honey was certified gold by the RIAA.

Contents

Chart performance

Chart (1988-1989)Peak
position
US Hot Country Songs ( Billboard ) [2] 4

Year-end charts

Chart (1989)Position
US Country Songs ( Billboard ) [3] 57

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References

  1. Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 217.
  2. "Kathy Mattea Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.
  3. "Best of 1989: Country Songs". Billboard . Prometheus Global Media. 1989. Retrieved August 28, 2013.