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You're the First Time I've Thought About Leaving
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"You're the First Time I've Thought About Leaving"
Single by Reba McEntire
from the album Unlimited
B-side
"Up to Heaven"
Released
January 1983
Genre
Country
Length
2:54
Label
Mercury
Songwriter(s)
Kerry Chater, Dickey Lee
Producer(s)
Jerry Kennedy
Reba McEntire singles chronology
"Can't Even Get the Blues"
(1982) "You're the First Time I've Thought About Leaving"
(1983) "Why Do We Want (What We Know We Can't Have)"
(1983)
"Can't Even Get the Blues"
(1982) "You're the First Time I've Thought About Leaving"
(1983) "Why Do We Want (What We Know We Can't Have)"
(1983)
"You're the First Time I've Thought About Leaving" is a song written by Dickey Lee and Kerry Chater, and recorded by American country music artist Reba McEntire. It was released in January 1983 as the third single from the album Unlimited. "You're the First Time I've Thought About Leaving" was Reba McEntire's second number one on the country chart. The single stayed at number one for one week and spent a total of fourteen weeks on the country chart.[1]
Chart performance[edit]
Chart (1983)
Peak
position
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)[2] 1
Canadian RPM Country Tracks 5
References[edit]
Jump up ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 225.
Jump up ^ "Reba McEntire Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.
External links[edit]
Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
Preceded by
"American Made" by The Oak Ridge Boys Billboard Hot Country Singles number-one single
April 30, 1983 Succeeded by
"José Cuervo" by Shelly West
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Heart to Heart
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"Only You (And You Alone)"
Unlimited
"I'm Not That Lonely Yet"
"Can't Even Get the Blues"
"You're the First Time I've Thought About Leaving"
Behind the Scene
"Why Do We Want (What We Know We Can't Have)"
"There Ain't No Future in This"
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"Three Sheets to the Wind"/"I'd Really Love to See You Tonight" (with Jacky Ward)
"Mind Your Own Business" (with Hank Williams, Jr. et al.)
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