Save the Last Chance

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"Save the Last Chance"
Single by Johnny Lee
from the album Keep Me Hangin' On
B-side "It Ain't the Leaving"
Released April 29, 1985
Genre Country
Length3:22
Label Warner Bros.
Songwriter(s) Walt Aldridge
Robert Byrne
Producer(s) Bud Logan, Rick McCollister
Johnny Lee singles chronology
"Rollin' Lonely"
(1985)
"Save the Last Chance"
(1985)
"They Never Had to Get Over You"
(1985)

"Rollin' Lonely"
(1985)
"Save the Last Chance"
(1985)
"They Never Had to Get Over You"
(1985)

Save the Last Chance is a song written by Walt Aldridge and Robert Byrne, [1] and recorded by American country music artist Johnny Lee. It was released in April 1985 as the lead single from the album Keep Me Hangin' On. The song reached number 12 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart and number 12 on the Canadian RPM Country Tracks chart. [2]

James Walton "Walt" Aldridge Jr. is an American musician, singer, songwriter, engineer and record producer.

Robert Byrne was an American songwriter known primarily for his work in country music. He did most of his work at FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama.

Johnny Lee (singer) American musician

John Lee Ham, known professionally as Johnny Lee, is an American country music singer. His 1980 single "Lookin' for Love" became a crossover hit, spending three weeks at number 1 on the Billboard country singles chart while also appearing in the Top 5 on the Billboard Pop chart and Top 10 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary chart. He racked up a total of 17 top 40 country hits in the early and mid-1980s.

Chart performance

Chart (1985)Peak
position
US Hot Country Songs ( Billboard ) [3] 12
Canadian RPM Country Tracks12

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References

  1. ASCAP entry for song ASCAP, accessed 3 July 2011
  2. Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 198.
  3. "Johnny Lee Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.