Saginaw, Michigan (song)

"Saginaw, Michigan"
Single by Lefty Frizzell
from the album Saginaw, Michigan
B-side "When It Rains The Blues"
Released November 26, 1963
Format 7"
Recorded October 16, 1963
Genre Country
Length 3:05
Label Columbia Records
Writer(s) Bill Anderson and Don Wayne
Producer Don Law and Frank Jones
Lefty Frizzell singles chronology
"Don't Let Her See Me Cry"
(1963)		 "Roll On (Eighteen Wheeler)"
(1964)		 "The Nestor"
(1964)

Saginaw, Michigan is a 1964 song performed by Lefty Frizzell. The single was Lefty Frizzell's sixth and final number one on the U.S. country chart.[1] "Saginaw, Michigan" spent a total of twenty-three weeks on the country chart and peaked at number eighty-five on the Billboard Hot 100. The song earned Lefty Frizzell a Grammy nomination.

James King performs a bluegrass cover of this tune on his 2006 record The Bluegrass Storyteller.

Chart performance

Chart (1964) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles 1
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 85

References

  1. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 129. 
Preceded by
"Begging to You"
by Marty Robbins		 Billboard Hot Country Singles
number-one single
March 7-March 28, 1964		 Succeeded by
"Understand Your Man"
by Johnny Cash