I'd Love to Lay You Down | |
Type: | single |
Artist: | Conway Twitty |
Album: | Heart & Soul |
B-Side: | She Thinks I Still Care |
Released: | January 14, 1980 |
Genre: | Country |
Length: | 3:24 |
Label: | MCA |
Producer: | Conway Twitty, David Barnes |
Prev Title: | Happy Birthday Darlin' |
Prev Year: | 1979 |
Next Title: | I've Never Seen the Likes of You |
Next Year: | 1980 |
"I'd Love to Lay You Down" is a song written by Johnny MacRae, and recorded by American country music artist Conway Twitty. It was released in January 1980 as the first single from the album Heart & Soul. The song was Twitty's 24th number one on the country chart. The single stayed at number one for one week.[1] The song has sold 300,000 digital copies since becoming available for download.[2]
In 2002, Daryle Singletary released a remake, which went to number 43 on the same chart.
Conway's version of this song features an extremely unusual series of key changes: the song progressively lowers in key instead of the musical standard of changing keys upwards.
Chris Young references this song in his single "I Can Take It from There".