Midnight Highway

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"Midnight Highway"
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Single by Southern Pacific
from the album Zuma
B-side "What's It Gonna Take"
ReleasedApril 9, 1988
Genre Country
Length3:47
Label Warner Bros.
Songwriter(s) John McFee, Kurt Howell
Producer(s) Southern Pacific, Jim Ed Norman
Southern Pacific singles chronology
"Don't Let Go of My Heart"
(1987)
"Midnight Highway"
(1988)
"New Shade of Blue"
(1988)

"Midnight Highway" is a song written by John McFee and Kurt Howell, and recorded by American country music group Southern Pacific. The single features former Pablo Cruise member David Jenkins on the lead vocal [1] . The song was released in April 1988 as the first single from the album Zuma . The song reached number 14 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart. [2]

Chart performance

Chart (1988)Peak
position
US Hot Country Songs ( Billboard ) [3] 14
Canadian RPM Country Tracks16

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References

  1. CD booklet; cassette inlay card
  2. Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 326.
  3. "Southern Pacific Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.