Coca-Cola Cowboy

"Coca-Cola Cowboy"
Single by Mel Tillis
from the album Mr. Entertainer
B-side	"Cottonmouth"
Released	June 1979
Genre	Country
Label	MCA
Writer(s)	Steve Dorff Sandy Pinkard Sam Atchley Bud Dain
Mel Tillis singles chronology
"Send Me Down to Tucson" (1979) "Coca-Cola Cowboy" (1979) "Blind in Love" (1979)

"Coca-Cola Cowboy" is a 1979 single written by Steve Dorff, Sandy Pinkard, Sam Atchley, and Bud Dain and recorded by Mel Tillis. The song was featured in the film, Every Which Way But Loose, starring Clint Eastwood. "Coca-Cola Cowboy" was Tillis' fifth number one on the U.S. country singles chart, where it spent one week at the top and a total of eleven weeks on the chart.^[1]

Chart performance

Chart (1979)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles	1
Canadian RPM Country Tracks	3

References

1. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 347. 

Preceded by "Suspicions" by Eddie Rabbitt

Billboard Hot Country Singles number-one single August 18, 1979

Succeeded by "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" by The Charlie Daniels Band