Where I Ought to Be

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"Where I Ought to Be"
Single by Skeeter Davis
B-side "Something Precious"
ReleasedJanuary 1962
RecordedNovember 1, 1961
Studio RCA Victor Studio B
Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. [1]
Genre Country, Nashville Sound
Label RCA Victor
Songwriter Harlan Howard
Producer Chet Atkins
Skeeter Davis singles chronology
"Optimistic"
(1961)		"Where I Ought to Be"
(1962)		"The Little Music Box"
(1962)

"Where I Ought to Be" is a song written by Harlan Howard. In 1961, Skeeter Davis recorded and released the song as a single for RCA Victor in 1962.

"Where I Ought to Be" was recorded on November 1, 1961, at the RCA Victor Studio in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. [1] The song was released as a single in January 1962, and it peaked at number nine on the Billboard Magazine Hot C&W Sides chart later that year. The single became Davis' fifth top-ten hit on the country chart at that point. The song was not originally issued onto an official album. [2]

Chart performance

Chart (1962)Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Hot C&W Sides9

References

  1. 1 2 "Skeeter Davis discography". Praguefrank's Country Discographies.
  2. ↑ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research.


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