Let's Take the Long Way Around the World

"Let's Take the Long Way Around the World"
Single by Ronnie Milsap
from the album Only One Love in My Life
B-side "I'm Not Trying to Forget"
Released September 2, 1978
Genre Country
Label RCA
Writer(s) Archie Jordan, Naomi Martin
Producer(s) Tom Collins, Ronnie Milsap
Ronnie Milsap singles chronology
"Only One Love in My Life"
(1978)		 "Let's Take the Long Way Around the World"
(1978)		 "Back on My Mind Again"
(1979)

"Let's Take the Long Way Around the World" is a song written by Archie Jordan and Naomi Martin, and recorded by American country music artist Ronnie Milsap. It was released in September 1978 as the second single from the album Only One Love in My Life. "Let's Take the Long Way Around the World" was Ronnie Milsap's eleventh number one on the country charts. The single stayed at number one for a single week and spent ten weeks on the chart.[1]

Chart performance

Chart (1978) 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. 232.
  2. ↑ "Ronnie Milsap – Chart history" Billboard Hot Country Songs for Ronnie Milsap.
Preceded by
"Tear Time"
by Dave & Sugar		 Billboard Hot Country Singles
number-one single
October 28, 1978 		Succeeded by
"Sleeping Single in a Double Bed"
by Barbara Mandrell
Preceded by
"It's Been a Great Afternoon"
by Merle Haggard		 RPM Country Tracks
number-one single
November 18, 1978 		Succeeded by
"Cryin' Again"
by The Oak Ridge Boys
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