Love Can't Ever Get Better Than This

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"Love Can't Ever Get Better Than This"
Single by Ricky Skaggs with Sharon White
from the album Love's Gonna Get Ya!
B-side "Daddy Was a Hard Workin' Honest Man"
ReleasedApril 1987
Genre Country
Length3:49
Label Epic
Songwriter(s) Nancy Montgomery, Irene Kelley
Producer(s) Ricky Skaggs
Ricky Skaggs singles chronology
"I Wonder If I Care as Much"
(1987)
"Love Can't Ever Get Better Than This"
(1987)
"I'm Tired"
(1987)

"Love Can't Ever Get Better Than This" is a song written by Nancy Montgomery and Irene Kelley, and recorded by American country music artists Ricky Skaggs and Sharon White. It was released in April 1987 as the third single from the album Love's Gonna Get Ya! . The song reached #10 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart. [1]

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Chart performance

Chart (1987)Peak
position
US Hot Country Songs ( Billboard ) [2] 10
Canadian RPM Country Tracks7

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References

  1. Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 316.
  2. "Ricky Skaggs Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.