Fire and Smoke
| "Fire and Smoke" | ||||
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| Single by Earl Thomas Conley | ||||
| from the album Fire and Smoke | ||||
| Released | April 20, 1981 | |||
| Format | 7" | |||
| Recorded | 1980 | |||
| Genre | Country | |||
| Length | 3:11 | |||
| Label | RCA | |||
| Writer(s) | Earl Thomas Conley | |||
| Producer(s) | Nelson Larkin and Earl Thomas Conley | |||
| Earl Thomas Conley singles chronology | ||||
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"Fire and Smoke" is a song written and recorded by American country music singer Earl Thomas Conley. It was released in April 1981 as the second single and title track from the album Fire and Smoke.
His fourth top 40 country hit, "Fire and Smoke" continued Conley's then-recent run of success, which had started with the previous single, "Silent Treatment" (his first top 10 hit on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart in the fall of 1980). "Fire and Smoke" topped the success of "Silent Treatment," becoming his first No. 1 hit in July 1981. "Fire and Smoke" spent 14 weeks in the top 40 of the country chart.[1]
At the end of the year, "Fire and Smoke" was named the No. 1 song of the entire year.[2]
Chart performance
| Chart (1981) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles | 1 |
References
- ↑ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 88.
- ↑ "Year End Charts - Year-end Singles - Hot Country Songs". Billboard.com. Archived from the original on 2007-12-11. Retrieved 2010-01-12.
| Preceded by "I Was Country When Country Wasn't Cool" by Barbara Mandrell |
Billboard Hot Country Singles number-one single July 11, 1981 |
Succeeded by "Feels So Right" by Alabama |
| Preceded by "My Heart" by Ronnie Milsap |
Billboard Hot Country Singles number-one single of the year 1981 |
Succeeded by "Always on My Mind" by Willie Nelson |
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