Half The Way
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| “Half The Way” | |||||
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| Single by Crystal Gayle from the album Miss the Mississippi |
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| A-side | "Half The Way" | ||||
| B-side | "Room For One More" | ||||
| Released | January 1979 | ||||
| Format | Single | ||||
| Recorded | 1978 | ||||
| Genre | Country-Pop, Adult Contemporary | ||||
| Length | 04:03 | ||||
| Label | Columbia Records | ||||
| Writer(s) | Ralph Murphy, Bobby Wood | ||||
| Crystal Gayle singles chronology | |||||
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"Half The Way" is the name of Country-Pop crossover singer, Crystal Gayle's third crossover Pop hit, released in 1979.
After recently achieving major Country crossover success in 1977 with "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue", followed by a Top 20 Pop hit and No. 1 Country hit the next year ("Talking In Your Sleep"), it would be no surprise then that Gayle would again attempt another crossover hit.
After recently signing with Columbia Records in early 1979, Gayle immediately started recording for them. "Half the Way" was the first song recorded under her new record label. The song's up-tempo sound and Soft Rock-sounding melody, made the song reach Billboard's Top 20 chart, and even reaching the Top 15, peaking at No. 15 in 1979. The song also climbed to Billboard Magazine's No. 2 position on the Country charts, just missing the top spot. Like Gayle's other previous recordings, the song also hit the Adult Contemporary chart. "Half the Way" is one of Gayle's better-known Adult Contemporary hits, reaching the Top 10 at No. 9. Following "Half the Way"'s success, Gayle never achieved another Top 40 Pop hit on her own again. Her singles did chart outside the Pop Top 40 though following this, and also the Adult Contemporary chart.
