Lonely Nights (song)

"Lonely Nights"
Single by Mickey Gilley
from the album You Don't Know Me
B-side "We've Watched Another Evening Waste Away"
Released September 1981
Format 45
Recorded 1981
Genre Country
Length 3:23
Label Epic
Songwriter(s) Stewart Harris and Keith Stegall
Producer(s) Jim Ed Norman
Mickey Gilley singles chronology
"You Don't Know Me"
(1981)		 "Lonely Nights"
(1981)		 "Tears of the Lonely"
(1982)

"You Don't Know Me"
(1981)		 "Lonely Nights"
(1981)		 "Tears of the Lonely"
(1982)

For the song by the German hard rock band Scorpions, see Face the Heat. For the song by the Canadian singer Bryan Adams, see You Want It You Got It.

"Lonely Nights" is a song written by Keith Stegall and Stewart Harris, and recorded by American country music artist Mickey Gilley. It was released in September 1981 as the second single from the album You Don't Know Me. "Lonely Nights" was Mickey Gilley's thirteenth number one country hit. The single stayed at number one for one week and stayed a total of thirteen weeks on the country chart.[1]

Charts

Chart (1981–1982) Peak
position
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)[2] 1
Canadian RPM Country Tracks 1

References

  1. ↑ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 137.
  2. ↑ "Mickey Gilley – Chart history" Billboard Hot Country Songs for Mickey Gilley.
Preceded by
"The Sweetest Thing (I've Ever Known)"
by Juice Newton		 Billboard Hot Country Singles
number-one single
February 6, 1982 		Succeeded by
"Someone Could Lose a Heart Tonight"
by Eddie Rabbitt
Preceded by
"Have You Ever Been Lonely?"
by Patsy Cline and Jim Reeves		 RPM Country Tracks
number-one single
February 27, 1982 		Succeeded by
"Only One You"
by T. G. Sheppard
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