This Time (Waylon Jennings song)

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"This Time"
Single by Waylon Jennings
from the album This Time
B-side "Mona"
ReleasedApril 1974 (U.S.)
RecordedOctober 1973
Genre Country
Length2:26
Label RCA Nashville
Songwriter(s) Waylon Jennings
Producer(s) Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson and Duane Eddy
Waylon Jennings singles chronology
"You Ask Me To"
(1973)
"This Time"
(1974)
"I'm a Ramblin' Man"
(1974)

"This Time" is a song written and recorded by American country music artist Waylon Jennings. It is the title track from the album This Time and was released in April 1974 as the album's first single. The song reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart in June 1974 and was his first of sixteen country No. 1 hits. [1]

Chart performance

Chart (1974)Peak
position
US Hot Country Songs ( Billboard ) [2] 1
Canadian RPM Country Tracks1

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References

  1. Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 174.
  2. "Waylon Jennings Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.