My Heart Is Set on You

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"My Heart Is Set on You"
Single by Lionel Cartwright
from the album I Watched It on the Radio
B-side "True Believer" [1]
ReleasedJuly 28, 1990
Genre Country
Length3:13
Label MCA
Songwriter(s) Lionel Cartwright
Producer(s) Tony Brown, Steuart Smith
Lionel Cartwright singles chronology
"I Watched It All (On My Radio)"
(1990)
"My Heart Is Set on You"
(1990)
"Say It's Not True"
(1990)

"My Heart Is Set on You" is a song written and recorded by American country music artist Lionel Cartwright. It was released in July 1990 as the second single from the album I Watched It on the Radio . The song reached number seven on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart. [1]

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Critical reception

Dan Herbeck of The Buffalo News compared Cartwright's sound to Ricky Skaggs, and said that the song was "a blatantly commercial but bouncy little song." [2]

Chart performance

Chart (1990)Peak
position
Canada Country Tracks ( RPM ) [3] 6
US Hot Country Songs ( Billboard ) [4] 7

Year-end charts

Chart (1990)Position
Canada Country Tracks ( RPM ) [5] 72

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References

  1. 1 2 Whitburn, Joel (2008). Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008. Record Research, Inc. p. 83. ISBN   0-89820-177-2.
  2. Herbeck, Dan (June 29, 1990). "RECORDS/BRIEFLY-COUNTRY". Buffalo News. Retrieved 17 August 2012.
  3. "Top RPM Country Tracks: Issue 1352." RPM . Library and Archives Canada. October 20, 1990. Retrieved August 23, 2013.
  4. "Lionel Cartwright Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.
  5. "RPM Top 100 Country Tracks of 1990". RPM . December 22, 1990. Retrieved August 23, 2013.