| "Take Me Down" | ||||
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| Single by Alabama | ||||
| from the album Mountain Music | ||||
| B-side | "Lovin' You Is Killin' Me" | |||
| Released | May 6, 1982 (U.S.) | |||
| Recorded | 1981 | |||
| Genre | Country rock[1] | |||
| Length | 3:43 (single edit) 4:53 (album version) | |||
| Label | RCA Nashville 13210 | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Mark Gray, J.P. Pennington | |||
| Producer(s) | Harold Shedd and Alabama | |||
| Alabama singles chronology | ||||
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"Take Me Down" is a song recorded by American country music band Alabama. It was released in May 1982 as the second single from Alabama's album Mountain Music.[2]
Written by Exile band members Mark Gray and J.P. Pennington, the song was originally recorded by Exile in 1980. The Exile version was released as a single, but failed to become a major hit, although it reached number 102 on the US Bubbling Under chart[3] and number 11 in South Africa.[4]
However, it was not until Alabama released the song that it was the group's seventh number one on the country chart.[5] In addition to its success on the country charts, the song fared modestly well on pop radio, reaching No. 18 on the Billboard Hot 100.[6]
- ^ Patton, Alli (December 13, 2022). "10 Alabama Essentials". American Songwriter. Retrieved May 17, 2024.
- ^ Roland, Tom, "The Billboard Book of Number One Country Hits" (Billboard Books, Watson-Guptill Publications, New York, 1991 (ISBN 0-82-307553-2)
- ^ Joel Whitburn's Bubbling Under the Billboard Hot 100 1959-2004
- ^ "SA Charts 1965–March 1989". Retrieved November 26, 2020.
- ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 18.
- ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits: Eighth Edition. Record Research. p. 22.