Somebody Lied

"Somebody Lied"
Single by Ricky Van Shelton
from the album Wild-Eyed Dream
B-side "Working Man Blues"
Released July 27, 1987[1]
Format 7" single, CD Single
Recorded July 11, 1986[1]
Genre Country
Length 3:21
Label Columbia Nashville
Writer(s) Joe Chambers
Larry Jenkins
Producer(s) Steve Buckingham
Ricky Van Shelton singles chronology
"Crime of Passion"
(1987)
"Somebody Lied"
(1987)
"Life Turned Her That Way"
(1987)

"Somebody Lied" is a country music song written by Joe Chambers and Larry Jenkins. First recorded by Conway Twitty on his 1985 album Don't Call Him a Cowboy, it was later recorded by American country music singer Ricky Van Shelton. Shelton's version was released in July 1987 as the third single from his debut album Wild-Eyed Dream, as well as Shelton's first number-one single on the Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) chart.[2]

Chart positions

Chart (1987) Peak
position
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)[3] 1
Canadian RPM Country Tracks 5
Preceded by
"Lynda"
by Steve Wariner
Billboard Hot Country Singles
number-one single

December 5, 1987
Succeeded by
"The Last One to Know"
by Reba McEntire

References

  1. 1 2 Greatest Hits Plus (CD). Ricky Van Shelton. Columbia Records. 1992. 52753.
  2. Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 310.
  3. "Ricky Van Shelton – Chart history" Billboard Hot Country Songs for Ricky Van Shelton.
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