- One Promise Too Late
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"One Promise Too Late" Single by Reba McEntire from the album What Am I Gonna Do About You B-side "Why Not Tonight" Released May 1987 Genre Country Length 3:13 Label MCA Writer(s) Dave Loggins
Lisa Silver
Don SchlitzProducer Jimmy Bowen
Reba McEntireReba McEntire singles chronology "Let the Music Lift You Up"
(1987)"One Promise Too Late"
(1987)"The Last One to Know"
(1987)"One Promise Too Late" is a 1987 single by Reba McEntire. "One Promise Too Late" was written by Dave Loggins, Don Schlitz, and Lisa Silver and was Reba McEntire's eighth number one country single as a solo artist. The single went to number one for one week and spent a total of fourteen weeks on the country chart [1]. It tells the story of a woman who meets a man and falls in love, but is already married and refuses to break her promise to the husband who has never been less than good to her, saying that the man came along "one promise too late."
Chart performance
Chart (1987) Peak
positionU.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles 1 Canadian RPM Country Tracks 1 References
- ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 226.
Preceded by
"Snap Your Fingers"
by Ronnie MilsapBillboard Hot Country Singles
number-one single
August 8, 1987Succeeded by
"A Long Line of Love"
by Michael Martin MurpheyRPM Country Tracks
number-one single
August 15, 1987Reba McEntire "I Don't Want to Be a One Night Stand" · "(There's Nothing Like the Love) Between a Woman and a Man" · "Glad I Waited Just for You" · "I've Waited All My Life for You"Out of a Dream "Last Night, Ev'ry Night" · "Runaway Heart" · "That Makes Two of Us" (with Jacky Ward) · "Sweet Dreams" · "(I Still Long to Hold You) Now and Then"Feel the Fire "(You Lift Me) Up to Heaven" · "I Can See Forever in Your Eyes" · "I Don't Think Love Oughta Be That Way"Heart to Heart "Today All Over Again" · "Only You (And You Alone)"Unlimited "I'm Not That Lonely Yet" · "Can't Even Get the Blues" · "You're the First Time I've Thought About Leaving"Behind the Scene "Why Do We Want (What We Know We Can't Have)" · "There Ain't No Future in This"Just a Little Love "Just a Little Love" · "He Broke Your Memory Last Night"My Kind of Country "How Blue" · "Somebody Should Leave"Have I Got a Deal for You "Have I Got a Deal for You" · "Only in My Mind"Whoever's in New England "Whoever's in New England" · "Little Rock"What Am I Gonna Do About You "What Am I Gonna Do About You" · "Let the Music Lift You Up" · "One Promise Too Late"The Last One to Know "The Last One to Know" · "Love Will Find Its Way to You"Reba Sweet Sixteen Guest singles "Three Sheets to the Wind"/"I'd Really Love to See You Tonight" (with Jacky Ward) · "Mind Your Own Business" (with Hank Williams, Jr. et al.)Categories:- Songs written by Don Schlitz
- 1987 singles
- Reba McEntire songs
- Billboard Hot Country Songs number-one singles
- RPM Country Tracks number-one singles
- Songs written by Dave Loggins
- Songs produced by Jimmy Bowen
- MCA Records singles
- 1980s country song stubs
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