"Old Violin" | ||||
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Single by Johnny Paycheck | ||||
from the album Modern Times | ||||
B-side | "Come to Me" [1] | |||
Released | 1986 | |||
Genre | Country | |||
Length | 3:42 | |||
Label | Mercury | |||
Songwriter(s) | Johnny Paycheck | |||
Producer(s) | Stan Cornelius | |||
Johnny Paycheck singles chronology | ||||
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"Old Violin" is a song by American country music singer Johnny Paycheck. It is a single from his 1986 album Modern Times.
"Old Violin" was recorded in the mid-1980s during Paycheck's tenure with Mercury Records. The song was among his first recordings after Paycheck had been imprisoned for aggravated assault at a bar in Hillsboro, Ohio. [2] [1] [3]
Kurt Wolff, in Country Music: The Rough Guide, describes "Old Violin" as a song in which Paycheck "faces old age with genuine trepidation". [4] The lyric features the narrator comparing himself to an "old violin, soon to be put away and never played again". [5]
In 2002, Daryle Singletary covered "Old Violin" for his covers album That's Why I Sing This Way. Singletary wanted to include Paycheck on his recording, and had a then-ill Paycheck deliver the song's closing recitation from his hospital bed. This recording was Paycheck's last before his death in early 2003. [5] [6] George Strait covered the song on his 2019 album Honky Tonk Time Machine. [7]
Chart (1986) | Peak position |
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Canada RPM Country Tracks [8] | 36 |
US Hot Country Songs ( Billboard) [9] | 21 |
"Old Violin" | ||||
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Single by Johnny Paycheck | ||||
from the album Modern Times | ||||
B-side | "Come to Me" [1] | |||
Released | 1986 | |||
Genre | Country | |||
Length | 3:42 | |||
Label | Mercury | |||
Songwriter(s) | Johnny Paycheck | |||
Producer(s) | Stan Cornelius | |||
Johnny Paycheck singles chronology | ||||
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"Old Violin" is a song by American country music singer Johnny Paycheck. It is a single from his 1986 album Modern Times.
"Old Violin" was recorded in the mid-1980s during Paycheck's tenure with Mercury Records. The song was among his first recordings after Paycheck had been imprisoned for aggravated assault at a bar in Hillsboro, Ohio. [2] [1] [3]
Kurt Wolff, in Country Music: The Rough Guide, describes "Old Violin" as a song in which Paycheck "faces old age with genuine trepidation". [4] The lyric features the narrator comparing himself to an "old violin, soon to be put away and never played again". [5]
In 2002, Daryle Singletary covered "Old Violin" for his covers album That's Why I Sing This Way. Singletary wanted to include Paycheck on his recording, and had a then-ill Paycheck deliver the song's closing recitation from his hospital bed. This recording was Paycheck's last before his death in early 2003. [5] [6] George Strait covered the song on his 2019 album Honky Tonk Time Machine. [7]
Chart (1986) | Peak position |
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Canada RPM Country Tracks [8] | 36 |
US Hot Country Songs ( Billboard) [9] | 21 |