I'll Leave This World Loving You

"I'll Leave This World Loving You"
Single by Ricky Van Shelton
from the album Loving Proof
B-side "Sometimes I Cry Myself to Sleep"
Released August 14, 1988[1]
Format 7" single, CD Single
Recorded January 19, 1988[1]
Genre Country
Length 3:06
Label Columbia Nashville
Writer(s) Wayne Kemp and Mack Vickery
Producer(s) Steve Buckingham
Ricky Van Shelton singles chronology
"Don't We All Have the Right"
(1988)		 "I'll Leave This World Loving You"
(1988)		 "From a Jack to a King"
(1988)

"I'll Leave This World Loving You" is a country music song written by Wayne Kemp and Mack Vickery. Kemp released it in 1980 on the Mercury Records label. He had previously recorded the song in 1974 for MCA Records, and used this version as the B-side to his 1974 single "Harlan County".[2]

The song was later covered by Ricky Van Shelton in 1988. It was released in August 1988 as the lead-off single from his album Loving Proof. It was the fourth consecutive Number One single of Shelton's career, as well as his first multi-week Number One.

Chart positions

Wayne Kemp

Chart (1980) Peak
position
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)[3] 47

Ricky Van Shelton

Chart (1988) Peak
position
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)[4] 1
Preceded by
"Runaway Train"
by Rosanne Cash		 Billboard Hot Country Singles
number-one single
November 19-November 26, 1988 		Succeeded by
"I Know How He Feels"
by Reba McEntire

References

  1. 1 2 Greatest Hits Plus (CD). Ricky Van Shelton. Columbia Records. 1992. 52753.
  2. ↑ Whitburn, Joel (2008). Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008. Record Research, Inc. p. 221. ISBN 0-89820-177-2.
  3. ↑ "Wayne Kemp – Chart history" Billboard Hot Country Songs for Wayne Kemp.
  4. ↑ "Ricky Van Shelton – Chart history" Billboard Hot Country Songs for Ricky Van Shelton.

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