Six White Horses Explained

Six White Horses
Type:	single
Artist:	Tommy Cash
Album:	Six White Horses
B-Side:	I Owe the World to You
Released:	October 1969
Recorded:	1969
Genre:	Country
Label:	Epic
Producer:	Glenn Sutton
Prev Title:	Your Lovin' Takes the Leavin' Out of Me
Prev Year:	1969
Next Title:	Rise and Shine
Next Year:	1970

"Six White Horses" is a song written by Larry Murray and recorded by Tommy Cash in 1969. Cash's recording reached number four on the Billboard country charts and number 79 on the Billboard Hot 100. It made it to number one on RPM Magazine's Canadian country chart.

Chart performance

Chart (1969–1970)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot 100^[1]	79
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles	4
Australian (Kent Music Report)^[2]	84
Canadian RPM Top Singles^[3]	72
Canadian RPM Country Tracks^[4]	1

Other Songs Titled Six White Horses

Other songs with the same title include:

• a 1940 release by Bill Monroe And His Bluegrass Boys, with Clyde Moody (who wrote the song^[5]), Tommy Magness, and Cousin Wilbur,^[6]
• a composition by Bobby Bond, first released in 1968 by Henson Cargill.^[7]
• a 1971 release by Waylon Jennings from his album The Taker/Tulsa

Notes and References

1. Tommy Cash Billboard Singles
2. Book: Kent, David. David Kent (historian). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. illustrated. Australian Chart Book. St Ives, N.S.W.. 1993. 0-646-11917-6. 57.
3. Web site: RPM Top Singles.
4. Web site: RPM Country Tracks.
5. Web site: Cover versions of Six White Horses by Bill Monroe and His Bluegrass Boys | SecondHandSongs. secondhandsongs.com.
6. Web site: Praguefrank's Country Music Discographies: Bill Monroe - part I. October 17, 2009.
7. Web site: Cover Versions of Six White Horses by Henson Cargill . Second Hand Songs . 19 April 2019.