You Can't Be a Beacon If Your Light Don't Shine

"You Can't Be a Beacon If Your Light Don't Shine"
Single by Donna Fargo
from the album Miss Donna Fargo
B-side	"Just a Friend of Mine"
Released	May 1974
Genre	Country
Length	3:15
Label	Dot
Writer(s)	Marty Cooper
Producer(s)	Stan Silver
Donna Fargo singles chronology
"I'll Try a Little Bit Harder" (1974) "You Can't Be a Beacon If Your Light Don't Shine" (1974) "US of A" (1974)

"You Can't Be a Beacon If Your Light Don't Shine" is a song recorded by American country artist Donna Fargo. It was released in May 1974 as the first single from the album Miss Donna Fargo. The song was Fargo's fifth number one on the U.S. country singles chart. The single spent a single week at number one and a total of eleven weeks on the chart.^[1] The song was written by Marty Cooper.

Chart performance

Chart (1974)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles	1
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	57
U.S. Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks	14
Canadian RPM Country Tracks	1
Canadian RPM Top Singles	41
Canadian RPM Adult Contemporary Tracks	15

References

1. Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 119.