Tell Me What It's Like

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"Tell Me What It's Like"
Single by Brenda Lee
from the album Even Better
B-side "Let Your Love Fall Back on Me"
Released 5 October 1979
Recorded 24 July 1979
Woodland Sound Studios, Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.
Genre Country
Length2:57
Label MCA Records 41130
Songwriter(s) Ben Peters
Producer(s) Ron Chancey
Brenda Lee singles chronology
"Could It Be Love I Found Tonight"
(1978)
"Tell Me What It's Like"
(1979)
"The Cowgirl and the Dandy"
(1980)

"Could It Be Love I Found Tonight"
(1978)
"Tell Me What It's Like"
(1979)
"The Cowgirl and the Dandy"
(1980)

"Tell Me What It's Like" is a song written by Ben Peters and performed by Brenda Lee. The song reached #8 on the U.S. country chart and #18 on the Canadian country chart in 1979. [1] It was featured on her 1980 album, Even Better. [2] The song was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance.

Ben James Peters was an American country music songwriter who wrote many #1 songs. Charley Pride recorded 68 of his songs and 6 of them went to #1 on the American country charts. Peters was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1980.

Brenda Lee American singer and recording artist

Brenda Lee is an American performer and the top-charting solo female vocalist of the 1960s. She sang rockabilly, pop and country music, and had 47 US chart hits during the 1960s, and is ranked fourth in that decade surpassed only by Elvis Presley, the Beatles and Ray Charles. She is known for her 1960 hit "I'm Sorry", and 1958's "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree", which has become a Christmas standard.

Hot Country Songs Weekly chart published by Billboard

Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States.

The song was produced by Ron Chancey and arranged by Bergen White. [3]

Ron Chancey is a record producer who works primarily in the country music field. He has produced albums and songs by Bob Seger, The Oak Ridge Boys, and Billy "Crash" Craddock. Chancey also served as the head of artists and repertoire (A&R) at MCA Nashville in the 1980s.

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