You're a Hard Dog (To Keep Under the Porch)

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"You're a Hard Dog (To Keep Under the Porch)"
Single by Gail Davies
from the album What Can I Say
B-side"The Boy in You Is Showing"[1]
ReleasedSeptember 1983
RecordedJune 1983
Nashville, TN, U.S.[1]
LabelWarner Bros. Nashville
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Gail Davies
Gail Davies singles chronology
"Singing the Blues"
(1983) 		"You're a Hard Dog (To Keep Under the Porch)"
(1983) 		"Boys Like You"
(1984)

"You're a Hard Dog (To Keep Under the Porch)" is a song written by Susanna Clark and Harlan Howard. It was originally recorded by American country artist Gail Davies for her fifth studio album entitled What Can I Say.

The song was recorded in June 1983 at the "Woodland Studio", located in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. The session was produced entirely by Davies, who had been self-producing her recording sessions for several years.[1] Released as a single in September 1983, "You're a Hard Dog (To Keep Under the Porch)" reached the eighteenth position on the Billboard Magazine Hot Country Singles chart. The single became Davies' ninth top-twenty hit on the Billboard country chart.[2] In addition, the single peaked within the top-twenty on the Canadian RPM Country Tracks chart.[3]

Chart performance[]

Chart (1983-1984) Peak
position
Canada Country Songs (RPM)[3] 20
US Hot Country Singles (Billboard)[2] 18

References[]

  1. ^ a b c "Praguefrank's Country Music Discographies: Gail Davies". Praguefrank's Country Discographies. Retrieved 31 May 2014.
  2. ^ a b Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research.
  3. ^ a b "Search results for "Gail Davies" under Country Singles". RPM. Retrieved 29 May 2014.


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