Close Enough to Perfect

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“Close Enough to Perfect”
Single by Alabama
from the album Mountain Music
A-side "Close Enough to Perfect"
B-side "Fantasy"
Released August 20, 1982 (U.S.)
Format 7"
Recorded 1981
Genre Country
Length 3:33
Label RCA Records 13294
Writer(s) Carl Chambers
Producer Harold Shedd and Alabama
Alabama singles chronology
"Take Me Down"
(1982)
"Close Enough to Perfect"
(1982)
"Christmas in Dixie"
(1982)

"Close Enough to Perfect" is a song made famous by the country music band Alabama. Originally released in 1982, the song was the third single from Alabama's third album, Mountain Music.

A pop-styled ballad, "Close Enough to Perfect" became Alabama's eighth No. 1 song in the fall of 1982.

[edit] Sources

  • Morris, Edward, "Alabama," Contemporary Books Inc., Chicago, 1985 (ISBN 0809253062)
  • Roland, Tom, "The Billboard Book of Number One Country Hits" (Billboard Books, Watson-Guptill Publications, New York, 1991 (ISBN 0-82-307553-2)
  • Whitburn, Joel, "Top Country Songs: 1944-2005," 2006.


Preceded by
"He Got You"
by Ronnie Milsap
Billboard Hot Country Singles
number one single by Alabama

October 30, 1982
Succeeded by
"You're So Good When You're Bad"
by Charley Pride