| "The Long Goodbye" | ||||
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| Single by Brooks & Dunn | ||||
| from the album Steers & Stripes | ||||
| Released | October 22, 2001 | |||
| Format | CD single | |||
| Genre | Country | |||
| Length | 3:15 (single edit) 3:51 (album version) |
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| Label | Arista Nashville 69101 | |||
| Writer(s) | Paul Brady Ronan Keating |
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| Producer | Kix Brooks Ronnie Dunn Mark Wright |
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| Brooks & Dunn singles chronology | ||||
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"The Long Goodbye" is a song recorded and co-written first by Paul Brady on his 2000 album Oh What a World. It was later covered by country music duo Brooks & Dunn for their album Steers & Stripes. Brooks & Dunn's version was a Number One hit on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) charts, and a #39 hit on the Billboard Hot 100. Irish pop singer Ronan Keating, the other co-writer of the song, released it in April 2003 as the last single from his album Destination, reaching #3 in the UK Singles Chart.
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Ronnie Dunn was initially challenged by this song. "For me, I didn't know if I could sing some of these songs, if I could get inside them. So I'd take the tracks home...Paul Brady's demo of 'The Long Good-bye was intimidating...How do you do that? I'd work in my barn, explore the songs, try things, really learn where the song wanted to go, where I wanted to go."[1]
Chuck Taylor, of Billboard magazine reviewed the song favorably saying that the song has more of a pop flavor than most of their other music. Taylor also says that Dunn's "earnest emotion exudes quiet desperation mixed with knowing acceptance."[2]
"The Long Goodbye" debuted at #53 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart for the week of October 27, 2001.
| Chart (2001-2002) | Peak position |
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| U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks | 1 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot 100 | 39 |
| Preceded by "The Cowboy in Me" by Tim McGraw |
Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks number-one single March 23, 2002 |
Succeeded by "Blessed" by Martina McBride |
| "The Long Goodbye" | ||||
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| Single by Ronan Keating | ||||
| from the album Destination | ||||
| Released | April 28, 2003 | |||
| Format | CD single | |||
| Recorded | 2002 | |||
| Genre | Pop | |||
| Length |
4:44 (Album version) 4:18 (Single mix) |
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| Label | Polydor | |||
| Producer | Bill Padley | |||
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"The Long Goodbye" is the fourth and last single released from Irish singer/songwriter Ronan Keating's second studio album, Destination. The single peaked at #3 on the UK Singles Chart. The single was released as a double A-Side with "Love Won't Work (If We Don't Try)".
| Chart (2003) | Peak position |
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| UK Singles Chart | 3 |
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