Modern Day Romance

1985 single by Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

"Modern Day Romance"

Single by Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

from the album Partners, Brothers and Friends

B-side

"Queen of the Road"

Released

June 3, 1985

Genre

Country

Length

3:32

Label

Warner Bros. Nashville

Songwriter(s)

Kix Brooks
Dan Tyler

Producer(s)

Paul Worley
Marshall Morgan

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band singles chronology

"High Horse"
(1985)

"Modern Day Romance"
(1985)

"Home Again in My Heart"
(1985)

"Modern Day Romance" is a song written by Kix Brooks and Dan Tyler and recorded by American country music group Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. It was released in June 1985 as the lead single from the album Partners, Brothers and Friends. The song was The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band's second number one on the country chart. The single went to number one for one week and spent a total of fifteen weeks on the country chart.^[1]

Music video

The music video was directed by Gary Amelon.

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (1985)	Peak position
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)^[2]	1
Canadian RPM Country Tracks	2

Year-end charts

Chart (1985)	Position
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)^[3]	8

References

^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 249.
^ "The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.
^ "Hot Country Songs – Year-End 1985". Billboard. Retrieved June 12, 2021.

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

Bob Carpenter
Jimmie Fadden
Jeff Hanna

Studio albums

The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
Ricochet
Rare Junk
Uncle Charlie & His Dog Teddy
All the Good Times
Stars & Stripes Forever
Symphonion Dream
The Dirt Band
An American Dream
Make a Little Magic
Jealousy
Let's Go
Plain Dirt Fashion
Partners, Brothers and Friends
Hold On
Workin' Band
The Rest of the Dream
Not Fade Away
Acoustic
The Christmas Album
Bang, Bang, Bang
Welcome to Woody Creek
Speed of Life

Collaboration albums

Will the Circle Be Unbroken
Will the Circle Be Unbroken: Volume Two
Will the Circle Be Unbroken, Volume III

Live albums

Alive
Live Two Five

Compilation albums

Singles

"Mr. Bojangles"
"House at Pooh Corner"
"I Saw the Light"
"Jambalaya (On the Bayou)"
"The Battle of New Orleans"
"All I Have to Do Is Dream"
"An American Dream"
"Dance Little Jean"
"Long Hard Road (The Sharecropper's Dream)"
"I Love Only You"
"High Horse"
"Modern Day Romance"
"Home Again in My Heart"
"Partners, Brothers and Friends"
"Fire in the Sky"
"Baby's Got a Hold on Me"
"Fishin' in the Dark"
"Oh What a Love"
"Workin' Man (Nowhere to Go)"
"I've Been Lookin'"
"Down That Road Tonight"
"Turn of the Century"
"And So It Goes"
"When It's Gone"
"I Fought the Law"

Other songs

"Bless the Broken Road"

Brooks & Dunn

Kix Brooks
Ronnie Dunn

Studio albums

Compilations

The Greatest Hits Collection
Super Hits
The Greatest Hits Collection II
Playlist: The Very Best of Brooks & Dunn
#1s… and Then Some

Singles

1990s

"Brand New Man"
"My Next Broken Heart"
"Neon Moon"
"Boot Scootin' Boogie"
"Lost and Found"
"Hard Workin' Man"
"We'll Burn That Bridge"
"She Used to Be Mine"
"Rock My World (Little Country Girl)"
"That Ain't No Way to Go"
"She's Not the Cheatin' Kind"
"I'll Never Forgive My Heart"
"Little Miss Honky Tonk"
"You're Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone"
"Whiskey Under the Bridge"
"My Maria"
"I Am That Man"
"Mama Don't Get Dressed Up for Nothing"
"A Man This Lonely"
"Why Would I Say Goodbye"
"Honky Tonk Truth"
"He's Got You"
"If You See Him/If You See Her" (with Reba McEntire)
"How Long Gone"
"Husbands and Wives"
"I Can't Get Over You"
"Missing You"
"Beer Thirty"

2000s

"You'll Always Be Loved by Me"
"Ain't Nothing 'bout You"
"Only in America"
"The Long Goodbye"
"My Heart Is Lost to You"
"Every River"
"Red Dirt Road"
"You Can't Take the Honky Tonk Out of the Girl"
"That's What She Gets for Loving Me"
"That's What It's All About"
"It's Getting Better All the Time"
"Play Something Country"
"Believe"
"Building Bridges" (with Sheryl Crow and Vince Gill)
"Hillbilly Deluxe"
"Proud of the House We Built"
"God Must Be Busy"
"Put a Girl in It"
"Cowgirls Don't Cry" (with Reba McEntire)
"Indian Summer"
"Honky Tonk Stomp" (with Billy Gibbons)

Solo works

Kix Brooks	Kix Brooks "Sacred Ground" New to This Town "New to This Town"
Ronnie Dunn	Ronnie Dunn "Bleed Red" "Cost of Livin'" "Let the Cowboy Rock" Peace, Love, and Country Music Tattooed Heart "Damn Drunk" Re-Dunn "Amarillo by Morning" "Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress"