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Flight 309 to Tennessee

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"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.[1] 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.[2]

Chart performance

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Chart (1983) Peak
position
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)[3] 4
Canadian RPM Country Tracks 11

Other versions

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References

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  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.