Killin' Time (Clint Black song)

"Killin' Time" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Clint Black. It was released in July 1989 as the second single and title track from his debut album. The song was his second number-one hit on the U.S. Billboard magazine Hot Country Singles chart and the Canadian RPM Country Tracks chart. It was written by Black and Hayden Nicholas. When Billboard published its year-end Hot Country Singles chart for 1989, "Killin' Time" was the No. 2 song of the year — one spot behind Black's "A Better Man."^[1] The successes of "A Better Man" and "Killin' Time" were instrumental in Black winning the Country Music Association's Horizon Award in 1989.^[2]

Music video

This was his second music video and was directed by Bill Young, and premiered in July 1989. A young Tim McGraw makes a cameo appearance in the music video playing a game of pool. It features Black singing the song at a bar (Saddleback Saloon in Sealy, Texas). He was wearing a T-shirt that has Don't Mess with Texas written on it, and features him in another singing the song wearing a striped shirt. He puts the guitar down, and the video ends.

At 2:50 into, Clint's brother Brian Black makes a cameo dancing on the dance floor in front of Clint Black. Also making a cameo appearance in the video as an older Clint is Clint's brother Kevin Black.

Chart positions

Chart (1989)	Peak position
Canada Country Tracks (RPM)^[3]	1
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)^[4]	1

Year-end charts

Chart (1989)	Position
Canada Country Tracks (RPM)^[5]	10
US Country Songs (Billboard)^[6]	2

Sources

References

↑ Billboard magazine Hot Country Songs - 1989
↑ Millard, Bob, "Country Music: 70 Years of America's Favorite Music" (HarperCollins, New York, 1993 (ISBN 0-06-273244-7)), p. 161
↑ "Top RPM Country Tracks: Issue 6583." RPM. Library and Archives Canada. October 16, 1989. Retrieved August 28, 2013.
↑ "Clint Black – Chart history" Billboard Hot Country Songs for Clint Black.
↑ "RPM Top 100 Country Tracks of 1989". RPM. December 23, 1989. Retrieved August 28, 2013.
↑ "Best of 1989: Country Songs". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. 1989. Retrieved August 28, 2013.

External links

Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics

Preceded by "I Got Dreams" by Steve Wariner	Billboard Hot Country Singles number-one single October 14, 1989	Succeeded by "Living Proof" by Ricky Van Shelton
Preceded by "Let Me Tell You About Love" by The Judds	RPM Country Tracks number-one single October 16, 1989	Succeeded by "Living Proof" by Ricky Van Shelton

Clint Black singles
Killin' Time	"A Better Man" "Killin' Time" "Nobody's Home" "Walkin' Away" "Nothing's News"
Put Yourself in My Shoes	"Put Yourself in My Shoes" "Loving Blind" "One More Payment" "Where Are You Now"
The Hard Way	"We Tell Ourselves" "Burn One Down" "When My Ship Comes In"
No Time to Kill	"A Bad Goodbye" (with Wynonna Judd) "No Time to Kill" "State of Mind" "A Good Run of Bad Luck" "Half the Man"
One Emotion	"Untanglin' My Mind" "Wherever You Go" "Summer's Comin'" "One Emotion" "Life Gets Away"
Greatest Hits	"Like the Rain" "Half Way Up"
Nothin' but the Taillights	"Still Holding On" (with Martina McBride) "Something That We Do" "Nothin' but the Taillights" "The Shoes You're Wearing" "Loosen Up My Strings" "You Don't Need Me Now"
D'lectrified	"When I Said I Do" (with Lisa Hartman Black) "Been There" (with Steve Wariner) "Love She Can't Live Without"
Greatest Hits II	"Easy for Me to Say" (with Lisa Hartman Black) "Money or Love"
Spend My Time	"Spend My Time" "The Boogie Man" "My Imagination"
Drinkin' Songs and Other Logic	"Rainbow in the Rain" "Code of the West" "Drinkin' Songs and Other Logic" "Heartaches"
On Purpose	"Time for That" "You Still Get to Me" (with Lisa Hartman Black) "Still Calling It News"
Other songs	"Desperado" "I Raq and Roll" "Hey, Good Lookin'" (with Jimmy Buffett, Kenny Chesney, Alan Jackson, Toby Keith and George Strait) "The Strong One" "Long Cool Woman"

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