My Life (Throw It Away If I Want To)

"My Life (Throw it Away If I Want To)"
Single by Bill Anderson
from the album My Life/But You Know I Love You
Released March 1969 (U.S.)
Format 7"
Recorded 1969
Genre Country
Length 2:44
Label Decca
Songwriter(s) Bill Anderson
Producer(s) Owen Bradley
Bill Anderson singles chronology
"Happy State of Mind"
(1968)
"My Life (Throw it Away If I Want To)"
(1969)
"But You Know I Love You"
(1969)

"Happy State of Mind"
(1968)
"My Life (Throw It Away If I Want To)"
(1969)
"But You Know I Love You"
(1969)

"My Life (Throw it Away If I Want To)" is an American country music song written and recorded by Bill Anderson.

Originally released in March 1969, the song was Anderson's fourth solo No. 1 song on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart late that spring, and soon became one of his signature songs.

Despite spending just two weeks atop the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart, "My Life (Throw it Away If I Want To)" was named the No. 1 song of 1969.[1] Several other songs - most notably Johnny Cash's "Daddy Sang Bass" and "A Boy Named Sue," and Merle Haggard's "Okie from Muskogee" - had longer runs at No. 1.

Chart performance

Chart (1969) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles[2] 1
Canadian RPM Country Tracks 2

Sources

  1. Billboard magazine Hot Country Songs - 1969 historical chart.
  2. Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 23.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.