Killin' Time (Clint Black song)

Infobox Single
Name = A Better Man


Artist = Clint Black
from Album = Killin' Time
Released = June 1989 (U.S.)
Format = 7"
Recorded = 1988
Genre = Country
Length = 2:48
Label = RCA Records
Writer = Clint Black and Hayden Nicholas
Producer = Mark Wright and James Stroud
Chart position =

• #1 (Billboard Hot Country Singles)
  Last single = "A Better Man"
  (1989)
  This single = "Killin' Time"
  (1989)
  Next single = "Nobody's Home"
  (1989)

  "Killin' Time" is a song made famous by country music neo-traditionalist Clint Black. Originally released in 1989, the song - the title track from Black's debut album - was his second nationally released single, and the second to become a No. 1 hit on the "Billboard magazine" Hot Country Singles chart.

  When "Billboard" published its year-end Hot Country Singles chart for 1989, "Killin' Time" was the No. 2 song of the year — one spot behind Black's "A Better Man." [ [http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/charts/yearend_chart_display.jsp?f=Hot+Country+Songs&g=Year-end+Singles&year=1989 Billboard magazine Hot Country Songs - 1989] ]

  A video was issued for the song, and has aired on The Nashville Network, CMT and Great American Country.

  The successes of "A Better Man" and "Killin' Time" were instrumental in Black winning the Country Music Association's Horizon Award in 1989. [Millard, Bob, "Country Music: 70 Years of America's Favorite Music" (HarperCollins, New York, 1993 (ISBN 0-06-273244-7)), p. 161]

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  References

  ee also

  *Roland, Tom, "The Billboard Book of Number One Country Hits." (Billboard Books, Watson-Guptill Publications, New York, 1991 (ISBN 0-82-307553-2))
  *Whitburn, Joel, "Top Country Songs: 1944-2005," 2006.