Fourteen Carat Mind Explained

Fourteen Carat Mind
Type:single
Artist:Gene Watson
Album:Old Loves Never Die
B-Side:Lonely Me
Released:September 1981
Recorded:June 1981
Genre:Country
Length:2:38
Label:MCA 51183
Producer:Russ Reeder and Gene Watson
Prev Title:Maybe I Should Have Been Listening
Prev Year:1981
Next Title:Speak Softly (You're Talking to My Heart)
Next Year:1982

"Fourteen Carat Mind" is a song written by Dallas Frazier and Larry Lee, and recorded by American country music artist Gene Watson. It was released in September 1981 as the first single from the album Old Loves Never Die. The song was Watson's twentieth country hit and his only song to hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart. The single stayed at No. 1 for one week and spent a total of fifteen weeks on that chart.[1]

Covers

The Osborne Brothers covered the song on their 1991 album Hillbilly Fever.Daniel Donato has covered the song on his 2021 album "Cosmic Country & Western Songs"

Notes and References

  1. Book: Whitburn, Joel . The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Joel Whitburn . 2004 . Record Research . 374.