My Home's in Alabama (song)

"My Home's in Alabama"
Single by Alabama
from the album My Home's in Alabama
B-side
  • "Why Lady Why" (MDJ release)
  • "I Wanna Come Over" (RCA release)
ReleasedJanuary 1980 (U.S.)
Recorded1978 and 1979
GenreCountry
Length4:02 (RCA single edit)
6:27 (RCA album version)
8:40 (original unedited recording)
LabelAlabama Records ALA-78-9-01 (originally)
MDJ 1002
RCA Nashville 12008 (later)
Songwriter(s)Randy Owen, Teddy Gentry
Producer(s)Harold Shedd, Larry McBride, Alabama
Alabama singles chronology
"I Wanna Come Over"
(1979)
"My Home's in Alabama"
(1980)
"Tennessee River"
(1980)

"My Home's in Alabama" is a song written by Randy Owen and Teddy Gentry, and recorded by American country music band Alabama. It was released in January 1980 as the second single and title track from the album My Home's in Alabama.

In the years since its release, "My Home's in Alabama" became widely considered as the song that sparked the band's rise to eventual superstardom.