"Amarillo by Morning" | ||||
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Single by Terry Stafford | ||||
from the album Say, Has Anybody Seen My Sweet Gypsy Rose | ||||
A-side | "Say, Has Anybody Seen My Sweet Gypsy Rose" | |||
Released | November 1973 | |||
Recorded | 1973[1] | |||
Studio | Jack Clement Recording (Nashville, Tennessee) | |||
Genre | Country pop[2] | |||
Length | 2:28 | |||
Label | Atlantic | |||
Songwriter(s) | Paul Fraser Terry Stafford | |||
Producer(s) | Blake Mevis | |||
Terry Stafford singles chronology | ||||
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"Amarillo by Morning" is a country music song written by Terry Stafford and Paul Fraser, and recorded in a country pop style by Stafford as a single in 1973 to minor success.[2] The song would be popularized in a fiddle-based Western rendition by Texas neotraditionalist George Strait in 1982.[3]