Dancing Your Memory Away Explained

Dancing Your Memory Away
Type:single
Artist:Charly McClain
Album:Too Good to Hurry
B-Side:Love This Time
Released:June 26, 1982
Genre:Country
Length:3:27
Label:Epic
Producer:Norro Wilson
Prev Title:The Very Best Is You
Prev Year:1982
Next Title:With You
Next Year:1982

"Dancing Your Memory Away" is a song recorded by American country music artist Charly McClain. It was released in June 1982 as the first single from the album Too Good to Hurry. The song reached number three on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.[1]

The song was written by Eddie Burton and Thomas Alan Grant for Barnwood Music which is now owned by HoriPro Entertainment. "Dancing Your Memory Away" also won two BMI awards, one at the country awards in Nashville and the other at the pop awards in Beverly Hills, CA. The song was first recorded by Tammy Wynette for her Soft Touch album. The Charly McClain version was produced by Norro Wilson. It has since been recorded by over 30 different artists around the world.

Charts

Year-end charts

Notes and References

  1. Book: Whitburn, Joel . The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Joel Whitburn . 2004 . Record Research . 221.
  2. Web site: Hot Country Songs – Year-End 1982. Billboard. June 23, 2021.