The Moon Is Still Over Her Shoulder

"The Moon Is Still Over Her Shoulder"
Single by Michael Johnson
from the album Wings
Released 1987
Genre Country
Label RCA
Writer(s) Hugh Prestwood
Producer(s) Brent Maher
Michael Johnson singles chronology
"Give Me Wings"
(1986)
"The Moon Is Still Over Her Shoulder"
(1987)
"Ponies"
(1987)

"The Moon Is Still Over Her Shoulder" is a song written by Hugh Prestwood, and recorded by American country music artist Michael Johnson. It was released in 1987 as the third single from the album Wings. "The Moon Is Still Over Her Shoulder" was Michael Johnson's second and last number one on the country chart and his follow up to "Give Me Wings" The single went to number one for fifteen weeks and spent a total of fifteen weeks on the country chart.[1]

Chart performance

Chart (1987) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles 1
Canadian RPM Country Tracks 2

References

  1. Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 178.
Preceded by
"Don't Go to Strangers"
by T. Graham Brown
Billboard Hot Country Singles
number-one single

May 9, 1987
Succeeded by
"To Know Him Is to Love Him"
by Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt, Emmylou Harris