| "Blood Red and Goin' Down" | ||||
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| Single by Tanya Tucker | ||||
| from the album What's Your Mama's Name | ||||
| Released | 1973 | |||
| Genre | Country | |||
| Label | Columbia | |||
| Writer(s) | Curly Putman | |||
| Producer | Billy Sherrill | |||
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"Blood Red and Goin' Down" is a 1973 single written by Curly Putman and performed by Tanya Tucker. "Blood Red and Goin' Down" was the second release from Tucker's 1973 album, What's Your Mama's Name. The single was Tucker's second number one on the country chart and would stay at number one for a single week and spend a total of twelve weeks on the chart.[1] In the song, the narrator, an adolescent girl, accompanies her father to a barroom where her mother and her mother's lover are drinking, and witnesses as her father murders the pair.
| Chart (1973) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles | 1 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot 100 | 74 |
| Canadian RPM Country Tracks | 1 |
| Preceded by "You've Never Been This Far Before" by Conway Twitty |
Billboard Hot Country Singles number-one single September 29, 1973 |
Succeeded by "You're the Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me" by Ray Price |
| RPM Country Tracks number-one single October 20, 1973 |
Succeeded by "Kid Stuff" by Barbara Fairchild |