A Place to Fall Apart

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"A Place to Fall Apart"
Single by Merle Haggard with Janie Fricke
from the album It's All in the Game
B-side "All I Want to Do Is Singing My Songs"
ReleasedOctober 27, 1984
Genre Country
Length3:36
Label Epic
Songwriter(s) Merle Haggard
Willie Nelson
Freddy Powers
Producer(s) Ray Baker
Merle Haggard
Merle Haggard singles chronology
"Let's Chase Each Other Around the Room"
(1984)
"A Place to Fall Apart"
(1984)
"Natural High"
(1985)
Janie Fricke singles chronology
"Your Heart's Not in It"
(1984)
"A Place to Fall Apart"
(1984)
"The First Word in Memory Is Me"
(1984)

"A Place to Fall Apart" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Merle Haggard as a duet with Janie Fricke and backed by The Strangers. It was released in October 1984 as the second single from the album It's All in the Game . The song was the first single where Haggard and Fricke worked together. The single went to number one for one week and spent a total of fourteen weeks on the country chart. [1] Haggard wrote the song with Willie Nelson and Freddy Powers.

Contents

Personnel

The Strangers:

Chart performance

Chart (1984–1985)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. 148.
  2. "Merle Haggard Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.