The Door Is Always Open

"The Door is Always Open"
Single by Dave & Sugar
from the album Dave & Sugar
B-side"Late Nite Country Lovin' Music"[1]
ReleasedApril 1976
RecordedJanuary 22, 1976
StudioRCA Victor Studio, Nashville, Tennessee
GenreCountry
Length2:41
LabelRCA
Songwriter(s)Dickey Lee, Bob McDill
Producer(s)Jerry Bradley, Charley Pride
Dave & Sugar singles chronology
"Queen of the Silver Dollar"
(1975) 		"The Door is Always Open"
(1976) 		"I'm Gonna Love You"
(1976)

"The Door is Always Open" is a country song written by Dickey Lee and Bob McDill. First recorded by Tennessee Pulleybone for JMI Records, it went to number 75 on the Hot Country Songs chart in 1973.[2] A version by Lois Johnson, also in 1975, went to number 70 on the country music chart.[3]

It was the Dave & Sugar version, released in 1976, that was released to radio and became known to audiences. That July, the song was the group's first number one hit on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart.[1]

  1. ^ a b Whitburn, p. 115
  2. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2008). Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008. Record Research, Inc. p. 416. ISBN 978-0-89820-177-2.
  3. ^ Whitburn, pp. 211-212