| If I Could Bottle This Up | |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | George Jones with Shelby Lynne |
| Album: | Friends in High Places |
| B-Side: | I Always Get It Right with You |
| Released: | September 3, 1988 |
| Recorded: | March 3, 1988 |
| Genre: | Country |
| Length: | 3:13 |
| Label: | Epic |
| Producer: | Billy Sherrill |
| Chronology: | George Jones |
| Prev Title: | The Old Man No One Loves |
| Prev Year: | 1988 |
| Next Title: | I'm a One Woman Man |
| Next Year: | 1988 |
"If I Could Bottle This Up" is a song written by Paul Overstreet and Dean Dillon. It was recorded as a duet by country singers George Jones and Shelby Lynne and released as a single in September 1988, peaking at #43.[1] It was Lynne's first single release and she would follow it with her debut LP Sunrise, which Billy Sherrill would also produce. The song would later surface on the Jones duet compilation Friends in High Places in 1991.
| If I Could Bottle This Up | |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Paul Overstreet |
| Album: | Heroes |
| B-Side: | The Mountains Disappear |
| Released: | November 23, 1991 |
| Genre: | Country |
| Length: | 3:49 |
| Label: | RCA Nashville |
| Producer: | Brown Bannister, Paul Overstreet |
| Prev Title: | Ball and Chain |
| Prev Year: | 1991 |
| Next Title: | Billy Can't Read |
| Next Year: | 1992 |
Overstreet released his own version of the song in November 1991 as the fourth single from his album Heroes. The song reached #30 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.[2]
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. Hot Country Songs: 1944-2012, Eighth edition. Joel Whitburn . Record Research . 2013 . 248.