Next to You, Next to Me

"Next to You, Next to Me"
Single by Shenandoah
from the album Extra Mile
B-side"Daddy's Little Man"
ReleasedJune 1990
Recorded1990
GenreCountry
Length3:38
LabelColumbia Nashville
Songwriter(s)Robert Ellis Orrall
Curtis Wright
Producer(s)Robert Byrne
Rick Hall
Shenandoah singles chronology
"See If I Care"
(1990) 		"Next to You, Next to Me"
(1990) 		"Ghost in This House"
(1990)

"Next to You, Next to Me" is a song written by Robert Ellis Orrall and Curtis Wright, and recorded by American country music group Shenandoah. It was released in June 1990 as the lead-off single from their album Extra Mile. It was a Number One hit in both the United States[1] and Canada. It is also the band's longest-lasting number 1, at three weeks.[2] As of 2006, no other single from Columbia had spent three weeks atop the country charts.[3]

The song received a nomination for Single of the Year by the Academy of Country Music.[4]

  1. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 311.
  2. ^ Bush, John. "Shenandoah biography". Allmusic. Retrieved 2008-07-28.
  3. ^ Inc, Nielsen Business Media (2005-10-15). Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. {{cite book}}: |last= has generic name (help)
  4. ^ "Winners database". ACM Country. Retrieved December 18, 2022.