| "Riding With Private Malone" | ||||
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| Single by David Ball | ||||
| from the album Amigo | ||||
| B-side | "Missing Her Blues"[1] | |||
| Released | August 13, 2001 | |||
| Recorded | May 9, 2001 | |||
| Genre | Country | |||
| Length | 4:35 (album version) 4:33 (single version) | |||
| Label | Dualtone | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Wood Newton Thom Shepherd | |||
| Producer(s) | Wood Newton | |||
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"Riding with Private Malone" is a song written by Wood Newton and Thom Shepherd, and recorded by American country music artist David Ball. It was released in August 2001 as the first single from his album Amigo. The song reached a peak of #2 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts (now Hot Country Songs) chart, and #36 on the Billboard Hot 100. It was Ball's first Top 40 country hit since "Look What Followed Me Home" in 1995. USA Today referred to it as "the country song that tapped most subtly and profoundly into the emotions of its audience" after the September 11 attacks, even though it was released to radio a few weeks before the attacks.[2]
- ^ Whitburn, Joel (2008). Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008. Record Research, Inc. p. 39. ISBN 978-0-89820-177-2.
- ^ Mansfield, Brian (2 October 2001). "Patriotism revs 'Private Malone' into high gear". USA Today. Retrieved 21 September 2010.