The Year That Clayton Delaney Died

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"The Year That Clayton Delaney Died"
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Single by Tom T. Hall
from the album In Search of a Song
B-side "Second Handed Flowers"
ReleasedJuly 5, 1971
RecordedMarch 26, 1971
Mercury Custom Recording Studio, Nashville, Tennessee
Genre Country
Length2:42
Label Mercury 73221
Songwriter(s) Tom T. Hall
Producer(s) Jerry Kennedy
Tom T. Hall singles chronology
"Ode to Half a Pound of Ground Round"
(1971)		"The Year That Clayton Delaney Died"
(1971)		"Me and Jesus"
(1972)

"The Year That Clayton Delaney Died" is a song written and recorded by American country music artist Tom T. Hall.

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Background

The song is based on Hall's childhood neighbor and boyhood hero, Lonnie Easterly. [1]

Chart performance

It was released in July 1971 as the only single from the album, In Search of a Song . "The Year That Clayton Delaney Died" was Hall's second number one on the country chart. The single stayed at number one for two weeks and spent a total of eighteen weeks on the country charts. [2]

References

  1. ↑ "In the Words of Tom T. Hall ..." CMT News. Archived from the original on October 23, 2015. Retrieved 2017-09-27.
  2. ↑ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 149.
  3. ↑ Whitburn, Joel (2013). Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles, 14th Edition: 1955-2012. Record Research. p. 366.
  4. ↑ Billboard , December 25, 1971.


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