| "Amazing Grace (Used to Be Her Favorite Song)" | ||||
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| Single by Amazing Rhythm Aces | ||||
| from the album Stacked Deck | ||||
| B-side | "The Beautiful Lie" | |||
| Released | December 1975 | |||
| Studio | Phillips Recording, Memphis, Tennessee | |||
| Genre | Country rock | |||
| Length | 3:17 | |||
| Label | ABC | |||
| Songwriter(s) | H. Russell Smith | |||
| Producer(s) | Barry Burton | |||
| Amazing Rhythm Aces singles chronology | ||||
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"Amazing Grace (Used to Be Her Favorite Song)" is a song written by Russell Smith, first recorded in Montreal in 1974 by Jesse Winchester and his band the Rhythm Aces, assisted by Smith. During the winter of 1976, it became a hit by the Amazing Rhythm Aces on their 1975 album Stacked Deck. It was the band's follow-up single to their debut hit "Third Rate Romance."
The song reached #9 on the U.S. country singles chart and #72 on the Billboard Hot 100.[1] It charted very similarly in Canada.
- ^ Whitburn, Joel (2008). Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008. Record Research, Inc. p. 24. ISBN 978-0-89820-177-2.