Open Up Your Heart (song)

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"Open Up Your Heart"
Single by Buck Owens
from the album Open Up Your Heart
B-side "No More Me and You"
ReleasedAugust 15, 1966
Genre Country
Length2:28
Label Capitol
Songwriter(s) Buck Owens
Producer(s) Ken Nelson
Buck Owens singles chronology
"Think of Me"
(1966)
"Open Up Your Heart"
(1966)
"Where Does the Good Times Go"
(1966)

"Open Up Your Heart" is a 1966 single by Buck Owens. "Open Up Your Heart" was a number one country hit for Buck Owens, spending four weeks at the top spot and total of twenty weeks on the country charts. [1]

Chart performance

Chart (1966)Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles1

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References

  1. Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 257.