Cowboys and Clowns

"Cowboys and Clowns"
"Cowboys and Clowns"
Single by Ronnie Milsap
from the album Bronco Billy (soundtrack)
B-side	"Misery Loves Company"
Released	June 1980
Genre	Country
Length	3:15
Label	RCA Nashville
Songwriter(s)	Steve Dorff; Snuff Garrett; Gary Harju; Larry Herbstritt
Producer(s)	Snuff Garrett
Ronnie Milsap singles chronology

"Cowboys and Clowns" is a song written by Steve Dorff, Snuff Garrett, Gary Harju and Larry Herbstritt, and recorded by American country music artist Ronnie Milsap. It was released in June 1980 and is featured on the soundtrack for the film Bronco Billy. The song was Milsap's fifteenth number one on the country chart. The single stayed number one for one week and spent a total of twelve weeks on the country chart.^[1]

The song was issued as a double A-side with a cover of Porter Wagoner's 1962 hit "Misery Loves Company".

Charts[]

Chart (1980)	Peak position
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)^[2]	1
US Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles (Billboard)^[3]	3
Canadian RPM Country Tracks	10

References[]

^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 233.
^ "Ronnie Milsap Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.
^ "Ronnie Milsap Chart History (Bubbling Under Hot 100)". Billboard.

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[1] Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 233.

[sc_Billboardcountrysongs_Ronnie_Milsap-2] "Ronnie Milsap Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.

[sc_Billboardbubbling100_Ronnie_Milsap-3] "Ronnie Milsap Chart History (Bubbling Under Hot 100)". Billboard.

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Studio albums	Ronnie Milsap Where My Heart Is Pure Love Legend in My Time A Rose By Any Other Name Night Things 20/20 Vision It Was Almost Like a Song Only One Love in My Life Images Milsap Magic Out Where the Bright Lights Are Glowing There's No Gettin' Over Me Inside Keyed Up One More Try for Love Lost in the Fifties Tonight Christmas with Ronnie Milsap Heart & Soul Stranger Things Have Happened Back to the Grindstone True Believer Sings His Best for Capitol Records Just for a Thrill My Life Then Sings My Soul
Compilation albums	Greatest Hits Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 Greatest Hits, Vol. 3 40 #1 Hits 16 Biggest Hits
#1 singles	"Pure Love" "Please Don't Tell Me How the Story Ends" "(I'd Be) A Legend in My Time" "Daydreams About Night Things" "What Goes On When the Sun Goes Down" "(I'm A) Stand by My Woman Man" "Let My Love Be Your Pillow" "It Was Almost Like a Song" "What a Difference You've Made in My Life" "Only One Love in My Life" "Let's Take the Long Way Around the World" "Back on My Mind Again" "Nobody Likes Sad Songs" "Why Don't You Spend the Night" "My Heart" "Cowboys and Clowns" "Smoky Mountain Rain" "Am I Losing You" "(There's) No Gettin' Over Me" "I Wouldn't Have Missed It for the World" "Any Day Now" "He Got You" "Inside" "Stranger in My House" "Don't You Know How Much I Love You" "Show Her" "Still Losing You" "She Keeps the Home Fires Burning" "Lost in the Fifties Tonight (In the Still of the Night)" "Happy, Happy Birthday Baby" "In Love" "How Do I Turn You On" "Snap Your Fingers" "Make No Mistake, She's Mine" (with Kenny Rogers) "Where Do the Nights Go" "Don't You Ever Get Tired (Of Hurting Me)" "A Woman in Love" "Stranger Things Have Happened"
Other songs	"Too Late to Worry, Too Blue to Cry" "Just in Case" "In No Time at All" "Prisoner of the Highway" "Old Folks" (with Mike Reid) "Button Off My Shirt" "Houston Solution" "Are You Lovin' Me Like I'm Lovin' You" "Since I Don't Have You" "Turn That Radio On" "All Is Fair in Love and War" "True Believer"
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