Fourteen Carat Mind

"Fourteen Carat Mind"
Single by Gene Watson
from the album Old Loves Never Die
B-side "Lonely Me"
Released September 1981
Format 7"
Recorded June 1981
Genre Country
Length 2:38
Label MCA 51183
Songwriter(s) Dallas Frazier and Larry Lee
Producer(s) Russ Reeder and Gene Watson
Gene Watson singles chronology
"Maybe I Should Have Been Listening"
(1981)		 "Fourteen Carat Mind"
(1981)		 "Speak Softly (You're Talking to My Heart)"
(1982)

"Maybe I Should Have Been Listening"
(1981)		 "Fourteen Carat Mind"
(1981)		 "Speak Softly (You're Talking to My Heart)"
(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. "Fourteen Carat Mind" was Gene Watson's twentieth country hit and his only song to hit number one on the country chart. The single stayed at number one for one week and spent a total of fifteen weeks on the Billboard country chart (though he has #1s on other prominent charts including Cashbox, Record World, Gavin and more.[1]

Charts

Chart (1981–1982) Peak
position
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)[2] 1
Canadian RPM Country Tracks 5

Covers

The Osborne Brothers covered the song on their 1991 album Hillbilly Fever.

References

  1. ↑ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 374.
  2. ↑ "Gene Watson Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.
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