Make My Day (T. G. Sheppard and Clint Eastwood song)

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"Make My Day"
Single by T. G. Sheppard with Clint Eastwood
from the album Slow Burn
B-side "How Lucky We Are"
ReleasedFebruary 18, 1984
Genre Country
Length3:16
Label Warner Bros./Curb
Songwriter(s) Dewayne Blackwell
Producer(s) Jim Ed Norman
T. G. Sheppard singles chronology
"Slow Burn"
(1983)
"Make My Day"
(1984)
"Somewhere Down the Line"
(1984)
Clint Eastwood singles chronology
"Beers to You"
(1980)
"Make My Day"
(1984)

"Make My Day" is a novelty song recorded by American country music artist T. G. Sheppard featuring Clint Eastwood. It was released in February 1984 as the second single from Sheppard's 1983 album Slow Burn , although it was not included on the album until a 1984 revised release. [1] The song reached #12 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart. [2] The song was written by Dewayne Blackwell.

Contents

Content

The song describes the activities of Eastwood's film character Harry Callahan, with a variation of Callahan's trademark line "Go ahead, punk. Make my day" as the chorus.

Chart performance

Chart (1984)Peak
position
US Billboard Hot 100 [3] 62
US Hot Country Songs ( Billboard ) [4] 12
Canadian RPM Country Tracks11

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References

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  2. Whitburn, Joel (2013). Hot Country Songs: 1944-2012, Eighth edition. Record Research. p. 304.
  3. "T.G. Sheppard Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard.
  4. "T.G. Sheppard Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.