Killin' Time (Clint Black song)

"Killin' Time"
Single by Clint Black
from the album Killin' Time
B-side "A Better Man"
Released July 15, 1989
Format 7"
Recorded 1988
Genre Country
Length 2:47
Label RCA 8945
Songwriter(s) Clint Black, Hayden Nicholas[1]
Producer(s) Mark Wright
James Stroud
Clint Black singles chronology
"A Better Man"
(1989)		 "Killin' Time"
(1989)		 "Nobody's Home"
(1989)

"A Better Man"
(1989)		 "Killin' Time"
(1989)		 "Nobody's Home"
(1989)

"Killin' Time" is a song written by Hayden Nicholas and American country music artist Clint Black, and recorded by Clint Black. It was released in July 1989 as the second single and title track from his debut album. The song was his second number-one hit on the U.S. Billboard magazine Hot Country Singles chart and the Canadian RPM Country Tracks chart. When Billboard published its year-end Hot Country Singles chart for 1989, "Killin' Time" was the No. 2 song of the year — one spot behind Black's "A Better Man."[2] The successes of "A Better Man" and "Killin' Time" were instrumental in Black winning the Country Music Association's Horizon Award in 1989.[3]

Music video

This was his second music video and was directed by Bill Young, and premiered in July 1989. A young Tim McGraw makes a cameo appearance in the music video playing a game of pool. It features Black singing the song at a bar (Saddleback Saloon in Sealy, Texas). He was wearing a T-shirt that has Don't Mess with Texas written on it, and features him in another singing the song wearing a striped shirt. He puts the guitar down, and the video ends.

At 2:50 into, Clint's brother Brian Black makes a cameo dancing on the dance floor in front of Clint Black. Also making a cameo appearance in the video as an older Clint is Clint's brother Kevin Black.

Chart positions

Chart (1989) Peak
position
Canada Country Tracks (RPM)[4] 1
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)[5] 1

Year-end charts

Chart (1989) Position
Canada Country Tracks (RPM)[6] 10
US Country Songs (Billboard)[7] 2

Sources

References

  1. ↑ https://americansongwriter.com/1991/05/clint-black-hayden-nicholas-houston-duo-has-country-success/
  2. ↑ Billboard magazine Hot Country Songs - 1989
  3. ↑ Millard, Bob, "Country Music: 70 Years of America's Favorite Music" (HarperCollins, New York, 1993 ( ISBN 0-06-273244-7)), p. 161
  4. ↑ "Top RPM Country Tracks: Issue 6583." RPM. Library and Archives Canada. October 16, 1989. Retrieved August 28, 2013.
  5. ↑ "Clint Black Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.
  6. ↑ "RPM Top 100 Country Tracks of 1989". RPM. December 23, 1989. Retrieved August 28, 2013.
  7. ↑ "Best of 1989: Country Songs". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. 1989. Retrieved August 28, 2013.

See also

  • Roland, Tom, "The Billboard Book of Number One Country Hits." (Billboard Books, Watson-Guptill Publications, New York, 1991 ( ISBN 0-82-307553-2))
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