If I Could Bottle This Up

"If I Could Bottle This Up"
Single by George Jones with Shelby Lynne
from the album Friends in High Places
B-side"I Always Get It Right with You"
ReleasedSeptember 3, 1988
RecordedMarch 3, 1988
GenreCountry
Length3:13
LabelEpic
Songwriter(s)Paul Overstreet, Dean Dillon
Producer(s)Billy Sherrill
George Jones singles chronology
"The Old Man No One Loves"
(1988) 		"If I Could Bottle This Up"
(1988) 		"I'm a One Woman Man"
(1988)
Shelby Lynne singles chronology
"If I Could Bottle This Up"
(1988) 		"Under Your Spell Again"
(1989)

"If I Could Bottle This Up" is a song written by Paul Overstreet and Dean Dillon. It was recorded as a duet by country singers George Jones and Shelby Lynne and released as a single in September 1988, peaking at #43.[1] It was Lynne's first single release and she would follow it with her debut LP Sunrise, which Billy Sherrill would also produce. The song would later surface on the Jones duet compilation Friends in High Places in 1991.

  1. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2013). Hot Country Songs: 1944-2012, Eighth edition. Record Research. p. 174.