I Can't Get Close Enough

"I Can't Get Close Enough"
Single by Exile
from the album Shelter from the Night
B-side "As Long As I Have Your Memory"
Released August 1987
Genre Country
Label Epic
Writer(s) J.P. Pennington
Sonny LeMaire
Exile singles chronology
"She's Too Good to Be True"
(1987)		 "I Can't Get Close Enough"
(1987)		 "Feel Like Foolin' Around"
(1988)

"I Can't Get Close Enough" is a 1987 single by Exile. "I Can't Get Close Enough" was written by then-lead singer J.P. Pennington and bass player Sonny LeMaire and was Exile's tenth and final number one country hit. The single went to number for one week and spent a total of fourteen weeks on the country chart.[1]

Chart performance

Chart (1987–1988) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles 1
Canadian RPM Country Tracks 1

References

  1. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 118. 
Preceded by
"Somewhere Tonight"
by Highway 101		 Billboard Hot Country Singles
number-one single
January 9, 1988		 Succeeded by
"One Friend"
by Dan Seals
RPM Country Tracks
number-one single
January 23, 1988