This article is about the Earl Thomas Conley song. For other songs, see Once in a Blue Moon.
"Once in a Blue Moon"
Single by Earl Thomas Conley
from the album
Greatest Hits
B-side| "I
Have Loved You Girl (But Not Like This Before)"
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Released| January 27, 1986
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Genre| Country
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Length| 3:39
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Label| RCA
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Songwriter(s)Robert Byrne
Tom Brasfield
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Producer(s)Earl Thomas Conley
Nelson Larkin
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Earl Thomas Conley singles chronology
"Nobody Falls Like a Fool"
(1985)
| "Once in a Blue Moon"
(1986)
| "Too Many Times"
(1986)
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"Once in a Blue Moon" is a song written by Robert Byrne and Tom Brasfield, and recorded by American country music artist Earl Thomas Conley.
It was released in January 1986 as the second and final single from his Greatest Hits compilation album. The song was Conley's eleventh number one on the country chart. The single went to number one for one week and spent fourteen weeks on the country
chart.[1]
Music video[edit]
A music video for the song was released and has been seen on
GAC. During the video's prologue, "Silent Treatment" (Conley's first top 10 hit) can be heard in the background.
Chart performance[edit]
Chart (1986) Peak
position
| US Hot Country Songs
(Billboard)[2]
| 1
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| Canadian RPM Country Tracks
| 1
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References[edit]
- ^
Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 88.
- ^ "Earl Thomas Conley Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.
Earl Thomas Conley
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Studio albums- 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
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Compilation albums- Greatest Hits
- Greatest Hits, Volume II
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Notable singles- "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"
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Guest singles- "All Tangled Up in Love" (with Gus Hardin)
- "Brotherly Love" (with
Keith Whitley)
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Related articles- Discography
- "This Time I've Hurt Her More Than She Loves Me"
- "All Over Me"
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Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 20, 2014
great song to listen to. easy to keep up to tune. words you can understand and good old country music.
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13, 2013
I have always enjoyed this song. Some days it just seems like you can't do anything right. That is when you need this song.
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 27, 2013
Very good song, The entire album consists of good hit songs. This is a nice slow love song, Earl Thomas was a fine man.
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 30, 2015
What song did Earl Thomas Conley write for Conway Twitty?
"This Time I've Hurt Her More Than She Loves Me" is a song written by Earl Thomas Conley and Mary Larkin and recorded by American country music artist Conway Twitty. It was released in October 1975 as the first single from the album This Time I've Hurt Her More.
Is Earl Thomas Conley a Hall of Famer?
The beloved Hall of Famer recorded more than 65 albums and helped found the Country Music Association. Another influential singer, Earl Thomas Conley died in April at age 77. Conley notched 18 No. 1 country hits, including "Holding Her and Loving You," "What I'd Say" and "Right From the Start."
Was Earl Thomas Conley married?
Conley is survived by his brothers, Fred and Steve; his sisters, Ronda Hodges and Becky Miller; a son, Ty, and a daughter, Amy Edmisten, from his marriage to Sandra Smith, which ended in divorce; two younger daughters, Kat Scates and Erinn Scates; and five grandchildren.
Did Earl Thomas Conley write his own songs?
In 2002, Conley co-wrote Shelton's second single with him, “All Over Me,” which made the top 20. He was ending his career in records then much as he had begun it, when he wrote songs for other people in the 1970s, like Conway Twitty's No.