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1983 single by Shelly West
"Flight 309 to Tennessee"
Single by Shelly West
from the album West by West
B-side"Sexy Song"
ReleasedJuly 2, 1983
GenreCountry
Length3:27
LabelViva
Songwriter(s)Ronnie Scott
Producer(s)Snuff Garrett, Steve Dorff
Shelly West singles chronology
"José Cuervo"
(1983) 		"Flight 309 to Tennessee"
(1983) 		"Another Motel Memory"
(1983)

"Flight 309 to Tennessee" is a song written by Ronnie Scott, and made famous by American country music artist Shelly West. It originally charted at #36 in 1974 on the Billboard Easy Listening chart for Vicki Britton, a Dallas-based singer/songwriter on Bell Records. Shelly's cover was released in July 1983 as the second single from the album West by West. The song reached #4 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.

Chart performance

Chart (1983) Peak
position
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard) 4
Canadian RPM Country Tracks 11

Other versions

  • Beverly Bremers released a version of the song as a single in November 1976.

References

  1. Whitburn, Joel (1993). Top Adult Contemporary: 1961-1993. Record Research. p. 34.
  2. Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 379.
  3. "Shelly West Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.
  4. Beverly Bremers, "FLight 309 to Tennessee" single release Retrieved August 12, 2016.
Shelly West
Notable singles
Singles with David Frizzell
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