Carrying Your Love with Me (song)

"Carrying Your Love with Me"
Single by George Strait
from the album Carrying Your Love with Me
B-side "I've Got a Funny Feeling"
Released May 22, 1997
Format CD Single, 7" single
Recorded September 23, 1996[1]
Genre Country music
Length 3:50
Label MCA Nashville
Writer(s) Steve Bogard
Jeff Stevens
Producer Tony Brown
George Strait singles chronology
"One Night at a Time"
(1997)
"Carrying Your Love with Me"
(1997)
"Today My World Slipped Away"
(1997)

"Carrying Your Love with Me" is the title of a song written by Steve Bogard and Jeff Stevens, and recorded by country music single George Strait. It was released in May 1997 as the second single from his album of the same name. The song reached the top of the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.

Contents

Content

The song is about a man that has to leave home for period of time. He always carries the thought of his woman with him though wherever he is.

Music video

The music video was directed by Christopher Cain and premiered in mid-1997. It was Strait's first music video since 1995's, "Check Yes or No" and his last one until 1999's, "Write This Down".

Chart positions

"Carrying Your Love with Me" debuted at number 72 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks for the week of May 3, 1997.

Chart (1997) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks 1
Canadian RPM Country Tracks 1
Preceded by
"It's Your Love"
by Tim McGraw and Faith Hill
Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks
number-one single

July 19-August 9, 1997
Succeeded by
"Come Cryin' to Me"
by Lonestar
Preceded by
"Little Ol' Kisses"
by Julian Austin
RPM Country Tracks
number-one single

July 28-August 4, 1997
Succeeded by
"I Left Something Turned On at Home"
by Trace Adkins

References

  1. ^ (2000) Album notes for Latest Greatest Sraitest Hits by George Strait [CD]. MCA Nashville.