Fire and Smoke
1981 single by Earl Thomas Conley
| "Fire and Smoke" | ||||
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| Single by Earl Thomas Conley | ||||
| from the album Fire & Smoke | ||||
| B-side | "I've Loved You Girl" | |||
| Released | April 20, 1981 | |||
| Recorded | 1980 | |||
| Genre | Country | |||
| Length | 3:11 | |||
| Label | RCA | |||
| Songwriter(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 & Smoke.
The song was Conley's fourth top 40 country hit, and continued his 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,". The single was his first No. 1 hit in July 1981 and spent 14 weeks in the top 40 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 |
|---|---|
| US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)[3] | 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.
- ^ "Earl Thomas Conley Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.
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Earl Thomas Conley
- Fire & Smoke
- Somewhere Between Right and Wrong
- Don't Make It Easy for Me
- Treadin' Water
- Too Many Times
- The Heart of It All
- Yours Truly
- Greatest Hits
- Greatest Hits, Volume II
- "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down"
- "Silent Treatment"
- "Fire and Smoke"
- "Tell Me Why"
- "After the Love Slips Away"
- "Heavenly Bodies"
- "Somewhere Between Right and Wrong"
- "I Have Loved You Girl (But Not Like This Before)"
- "Your Love's on the Line"
- "Holding Her and Loving You"
- "Don't Make It Easy for Me"
- "Angel in Disguise"
- "Chance of Lovin' You"
- "Honor Bound"
- "Love Don't Care (Whose Heart It Breaks)"
- "Nobody Falls Like a Fool"
- "Once in a Blue Moon"
- "Too Many Times" (with Anita Pointer)
- "I Can't Win for Losin' You"
- "That Was a Close One"
- "Right from the Start"
- "What She Is (Is a Woman in Love)"
- "We Believe in Happy Endings" (with Emmylou Harris)
- "What I'd Say"
- "Love Out Loud"
- "You Must Not Be Drinking Enough"
- "Bring Back Your Love to Me
- "Shadow of a Doubt"
- "Hard Days and Honky Tonk Nights"
- "All Tangled Up in Love" (with Gus Hardin)
- "Brotherly Love" (with Keith Whitley)
- Discography
- "This Time I've Hurt Her More Than She Loves Me"
- "All Over Me"
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